Please help: HIDs for 06 Evo IX!?
Dec 20, 2005, 05:50 PM
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Please help: HIDs for 06 Evo IX!?
Hello all! Opinions and recommendations please!
I drive an Evo IX without HIDs. I really want HIDs and have done some research on the Board.
I am pretty set on getting HIDs from HIDplace here on the board; they sell the mcullough (sp) kits. BUT, I can’t decide on 5300k or 6000k???
I like how the 03-05 HIDs look, but I hear I can’t match that exact look because the 06 Evo ix’s have a halogen projector, which will have hotspots and not have the same cutoff (that nice concentrated purple hew).
With that said, I believe the HIDs are going to be better than stock. I live in Anchorage, AK and its gets really dark here, so HIDs would be helpful. I’m sort of hesitant though, to purchase them because I hear the install is tedious (no heated garage ) and people commenting on how the projector lamps will look ugly with the HIDs.
If I do get them, I am trying to get a light bluish color. Would you recommend/get 5300k or 6000k? I don’t want too blue, like a ricer look and at the same time not to white. I love how the 4300k looks on oem Evo’s but I here that plays part with the projector style headlights. I don’t know what’s stopping me from ordering 6000ks. I’m guessing that if I go 5300k it will be perfect in between too white and too blue, but then again not to many people have commented on this Kelvin?
So, opinions and recommendations would be helpful! THANK YOU!
I drive an Evo IX without HIDs. I really want HIDs and have done some research on the Board.
I am pretty set on getting HIDs from HIDplace here on the board; they sell the mcullough (sp) kits. BUT, I can’t decide on 5300k or 6000k???
I like how the 03-05 HIDs look, but I hear I can’t match that exact look because the 06 Evo ix’s have a halogen projector, which will have hotspots and not have the same cutoff (that nice concentrated purple hew).
With that said, I believe the HIDs are going to be better than stock. I live in Anchorage, AK and its gets really dark here, so HIDs would be helpful. I’m sort of hesitant though, to purchase them because I hear the install is tedious (no heated garage ) and people commenting on how the projector lamps will look ugly with the HIDs.
If I do get them, I am trying to get a light bluish color. Would you recommend/get 5300k or 6000k? I don’t want too blue, like a ricer look and at the same time not to white. I love how the 4300k looks on oem Evo’s but I here that plays part with the projector style headlights. I don’t know what’s stopping me from ordering 6000ks. I’m guessing that if I go 5300k it will be perfect in between too white and too blue, but then again not to many people have commented on this Kelvin?
So, opinions and recommendations would be helpful! THANK YOU!
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Dec 20, 2005, 06:00 PM
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Im not sure if it would be very cost effective, but you could always purchase a set of OEM 03-05 hids on here or ebay, and then sell the ones that are on your car......just a thought
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Yeah 5300k is the route I think I'll go. Anymore feed back would be nice. I looked at some cars w/ HIDs on the way home. I noticed the stock oems on cars (4300k) looked nice n white/blue from a far then up close whiter. I saw saw a couple of cars/trucks with 6000k, so it seemed, and it's maintains its blueness from afar then up close.
So I believer the 5300k will be the happy medium. Now i'm just dredding the install, hopefully I can find a warm garage
! Heh!
So I believer the 5300k will be the happy medium. Now i'm just dredding the install, hopefully I can find a warm garage
! Heh!
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The install itself is not hard. The most time consuming part is probably going to be taking the splash gaurd off. Once that is off it is simple and easy to do.
Dec 20, 2005, 08:15 PM
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just take the bumper off its cake from there, and its just plug and play but putting the ballast somewhere is the tricky part you have get creative
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The install itself is not hard. The most time consuming part is probably going to be taking the splash gaurd off. Once that is off it is simple and easy to do.
Dec 20, 2005, 08:52 PM
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I have the McCullough 6000K kit on my Eclipse in a set of projectors. The light they put out is extremely bright, it is a night and day difference from the candles I had in there before.
6000K is as blue as I would go, because after that you start losing lumens for the sake of being Crayola'd out in whatever kewl shade of blue or purple they can cook up. I wish my stock Evo HIDs could point up higher, but the Eclipse probably throws out too much light all over the place, so neither is perfect IMO. But they are both a whole hell of a lot better then halogens.
6000K is as blue as I would go, because after that you start losing lumens for the sake of being Crayola'd out in whatever kewl shade of blue or purple they can cook up. I wish my stock Evo HIDs could point up higher, but the Eclipse probably throws out too much light all over the place, so neither is perfect IMO. But they are both a whole hell of a lot better then halogens.
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Originally Posted by Aikido
no hids are ricey on a car with projector housing, there not the same kind of blue like a xenon filled bulb for 25 bucks a pair lol.
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