[V8] WAAAAAAAY off subject: NAC! not even close to Audi content, but....

[NIck Miller]

Comments...

I think you may be going about it the wrong way... does this use a 9005\6
setup or the high\low in one bulb setup?

I would say the best way to do a headlight upgrade is be progressive with
it.  The very first thing I would recommend is relaying the original
headlights.  You will need to clean the oxidation off too for this to work,
but this will make the biggest difference on old lights.  Factory wiring is
small and gets old and crappy on a lot of american cars and this usually
fixes that issue.  Headlights are quite a load too and need good juice to
work right.  This will require a female plug to the OE harness feeding a
signal to a relay, which feeds power driectly off the battery to the
headlights.   The relay harness doesn't take a lot to make,  you should be
able to get these connectors at an autoparts store or online as well as
good heavy gauge wire.  I will get a nice site for showing you how to make
one shortly.

If that doesn't work for you, and you have 9005\9006 bulbs you will want to
modify your relay harness for 9011\9012 bulbs or modify the bulb bases.
Either way,  these HIR bulbs offer great light while still being
conventional halogen bulbs.  They are a significant redesign over the same
incadesant bulb that automotive lighting has been using for decades.  They
work wonderfully.

If you still aren't satisfied HID retrofits are pretty simple to do.  For
between 250 and 400 you can get everything you need to build a very nice
single projector xenon or bixenon setup, and the performance would be many
times better than an oem conversion of any sort.  I can't think of any
reason to spend money on oem halogen parts vs doing this.  The comparison
is night and day, literally.  My A8 oem hids aren't even as nice as my
custom hid setuo on my MX5 because I was able to choose the best stuff the
industry has.  Just exceptional night driving with that setup.  And with
that and hir highbeams as a quad mod, I can light up quite a bit with my
highs.

Any questions please ask, I can find the required literature shortly
On Dec 29, 2011 8:21 AM, "Roger M. Woodbury" <rmwoodbury at fairpoint.net>
wrote:

> I know a lot of you have experience with all sorts of oddball car brands,
> so
> I thought I throw out my question regarding this odd ball car brand.
>
> I am speaking of a certain truck that graces my driveway...one of those
> relatively limited production vehicles called a Chevrolet, or for those of
> you who are in the inner circle, a Chebbie.
>
> This particular one is a 1998 (old body style) 3/4 ton 4X4.  While it has
> lived its entire life in Maine, it has had relatively little winter use so
> it is not rusty at all.  Most Chebbie trucks of this vintage are already
> waiting compaction in the scrap yard, but not this one.
>
> Anyway, my issue is the headlights. this truck is a relatively bare bones
> version (CHeyenne), but it has the Silverado grille with the lovely
> polycarbonate headlights.
> Whoever ordered this thing originally spec'd it out with about every 3/4
> ton
> (and some 1Ton) stuff they could get, omitting some niceties like power
> windows and locks...but about everything else is there, except right now,
> with 120,000 miles or so, the poly headlights which were never great, are
> useless.  So I am planning a serious upgrade as I find I like driving the
> truck far more than I had expected and will continue to do so through this
> winter anyway.
>
> I have thought about just buffing the lenses using one of those buffing
> headlight restoration kits, but that would only restore already weak
> lighting to nearly new weak llighting.
>
> I have a set of very nice driving lights that I had thought about
> installing, but in order to do that, I will have to relay, double switch
> and
> all that jazz, and I will still have useless low beams which is where a lot
> of my night driving issues are with this present system.
>
> What I think I want to do is replace the Silverado grille with a base
> grille
> for the truck that would use large rectangular headlamps and install a set
> of Hella rectangular headlamps.  Naturally, I'll have to relay the circuit
> but that will be pretty simple.
>
> The issue I am having is buying a pair of headlight mounting brackets that
> will accept the rectangular headlamps in place of the polycarbonate lamps
> of
> the Silverado grille.  I wonder if anyone here has had experience with
> this...I think it is a bolt on situation, but I haven't pulled the grille
> off to inspect.  I also have not been to the Chebbie dealer to see if the
> brackets can be obtained from Chebbie, or if there will need to be a trip
> to
> a wrecking yard.  I hope I don't have to replace the entire metal work that
> holds the radiator in place, because if I have to do that, the driving lamp
> installation becomes MUCH more attractive cost wise, of course.
>
> Comments?
>
> Roger
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