[V8] HID's for V8

[Ron Wainwright]

HIDS use less power to through more light.

 Ron

--- Roger Woodbury <rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> 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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