[V8] HID's for V8

[Ron Wainwright]

W00ps.......

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 Ron

--- Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, Euros are very good in of
> themselves....
>
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> .....but to take it one step farther...well you know
> my motto ;-)
> 
>  Ron
> 
> --- Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Yup. True HIDs are special bulbs filled with xenon
> > gas and requiring a dedicated ballast for each
> side
> > and usually used for low beam only. 
> > 
> > Ingo Rautenberg
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Simmons <indischrot at gmail.com>
> > 
> > Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:28:24 
> > To:Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc:v8 at audifans.com, rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com
> > Subject: Re: [V8] HID's for V8
> > 
> > 
> > I was under the impression that HID used a xenon
> gas
> > and a special bulb, 
> > not just super-hot halogen bulbs.  Don't they call
> > that HIR or 
> > something?  Or is HID just a generic term?
> > 
> > ~Scott S.
> > 
> > Ron Wainwright wrote:
> > 
> > >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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> > >>4:59 PM
> > >> 
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