[V8] HID's for V8

[Roger Woodbury]

I confess that I haven't been faithfully reading all of the posts in this
most current thread, but I wanted to pose a question regarding the
retrofitting of V8 headlights with HID equipment.

What is going to be gained, I wonder?  Won't it depend entirely on which
headlight assembly is being used?  If you install (somehow) a much more
powerful light source inside a regular USDOT headlight shell, it seems to me
that all you will get is a much brighter terrible headlight.  

If the headlight is a European shell, then HID stuff will be, what, brighter
than 130 watt halogen H4 plus, say a 100 H3?  Why?  Aside from being totally
obnoxious to that totally obnoxious Ford F250 driver who won't dip...or
maybe that incredibly stupid broad in the Subaru Forrester who has her fog
lights on and high beams on all the time by definition, I doubt that the
light "throw" is any better nor has any better beam pattern.

The problem with US DOT headlights is the beam pattern that is in the lens
primarily.  Poor focus, poor light distribution and little differentiation
between high and low beam aside from the difference in aiming of the high
beam filament.

I was reading the Maine DOT vehicle inspection procedure manual yesterday,
and I can see how it will become impossible for a TYPE 44 Audi to pass
inspection at some point just due to the fact that the car is an older Audi.
IF the inspection station ever gets around to actually looking at the
headlights in my car, it will an automatic rejection.  

Roger

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