Euro headlights????

[Huw Powell]

> > Thank you Roger.  I too am running stock watt bulbs
> > (55/60) with 4 Bosch relays.  I also struggled to see
> > "past the end of the hood" with my stock lamps.

> The fact that you have the 4 Bosch relays doesn't give you "Euro
> headlights".

That was a bizarre inference.  He proceeds to compare "stock" lamps with
what he has now...

and how come it always takes me 7 to 9 relays by the time I'm done
building my new harnesses?!

I won't bother to compare my coupe's lights to anything, since it would
be unfair, but on my 90Q, running 55/100 H4's and 100 H1's, lows are no
brighter but much smoother, light the road right in front of the car
much better, and of course feature the classic "H4 cutoff."  Highs, on
the other hand... the stock lenses could be driven on high and not get
flashed by the oncoming traffic.  They were kinda like "auxiliary low
beams," they just added more vague glow somewhere up ahead of me.  The
euros on high?  1/2 a mile or so of no questions about what is ahead or
to the sides of the road.

One of these days I'm gonna throw some 80/100's in there, though having
gone back and forth with the coupe (I often put a 55/60 in when an
80/100 blows, since I have them around), there is a noticeable
difference, but it's pretty subtle.  In the coupe, the 80w lows last a
lot less time than 55's.

On my '73 dorF F250 (the first vehicle I installed "euros" in - 7 1/4"
H4's), without relays, in fact without much of anything people take for
granted (floorboards, mounts between body and frame, things like that)
it still has great light dispersion.  Not that it is legal to take it
out of the parking lot these days or anything...

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Huw Powell

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