Best headlight upgrade
 

2001 F4I. Any suggestions? Visibility obviously being the priority, but a diff color and/or unique look doesn't hurt either. Thanks for any input.

HID lights up super bright.....great visibility

halo angel eyes
 

get some halo angel eyes. REAL NICEhttp://i.ebayimg.com/19/!BbGgoWwB2k~...Wh-1w~~_12.JPG

Go HID kit.. Select the 8000k if you want a light blue tint to it.. 10000k for purple.. Depending in what state you are in you have to be careful. I am in PA and rock the 8000k and do not have a problem.. It looks sick coming at you too!

I too recommend HID, altough I prefer the 5000K spectrum.

"HID kit" just means "blue headlights" in most cases -- which is fine if you just want some bling. If you want the performance of real HID lights you can't just put cheap xenon bulbs in your stock light housing, you need projectors designed for HIDs. If you're a DIY type, your best bet is going to a salvage yard and getting some HID projectors from a late model upmarket car like an Infiniti or Lexus. I hear the Buell projectors available on ebay every now and then are pretty good. The $40 Chinese kits, OTOH . . .:icon_doh:

I had the Xenon H7 bulbs in mine and I liked them a lot better than stock. It gave it that blue look and I liked them a lot better.

I have a "04" that is completely stock.. this winter going to replace exhaust and replace the headlights.. any suggestions or pics?? around that year..

Plug and play HID kit is most common. Projector retrofit is best performance, but not easy.

If you get the plug and play kits that actually have a ballast to them they are 10 x brighter then stock. They aren't just "blue headlights" You can get different color spectrum's. I do not have the the projectors in my head lights and they work great..

OH NOES, YOU CAN GET PURPLE TOO! Big deal. The point of HID isn't just brightness and it certainly isn't about the colour -- they're supposed to have a very wide pattern with a very sharp cutoff on the low beam so they don't blind oncoming drivers. Just popping the bulbs in doesn't do that, you don't get anything you wouldn't get from putting tinted plastic over bright driving lights.

Real HID light systems are about performance. The ones that come in assorted colour temperatures are cheap crap.

So your telling me the color temp has nothing to do with HID's? Pretty sure you waste your time and get your so called performance HID kit and i will bring mine along and the results will speak for themselves..

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Yup pretty sure that's the way mine looks just with a blue tint because i did a different temperature!

I've been considering a set myself. It looks like you can get a 12v 35w set for an F4i for about $60-$90 from a number of sites including ebay. From what I can tell you can get any color temperature bulbs you want and the main difference between them is the size of the ballasts. For about $80 you can get an H.I.D. kit with fairly slim ballasts and a 1-2 year warranty. I checked YouTube and there are a bunch of videos of people installing these kits and using them. They look pretty good to me and are much brighter than OEM bulbs. Not to mention the cool factor of getting to pick a different color(although visibility goes down as the color temp goes up towards the blue and purple range).

or you could get some silverstars, thats what I got and the difference over OEM is soo much better visibility wise.

I got a set of hyperwhite h7 bulbs off ebay and they are a huge upgrade from stock. not HID. but for 7$ you cant beat it. I'm suprised on how good the F4i lighting is, (with the new bulbs).

Wow, $7 bones.
Good find Sick.
I need to replace mine as well, can't beat $7, I'll go check em' out.
I really dislike that bluish gawdy look, i'm lookin for plain white light, are the hyperwhites reg white light?

I have a 2000 model honda integra type R. I'm from Australia. I ordered my HID lights from Xenon Depot in Canada. They are 4300K which are the brightest in white on the spectrum and give the best visibility. They cost me about AU$450. And are all phillips quality components. You still get a touch of blue/purple tint but not to much. When I get my CBR i'll definitely but upgrading to some HID's.. FTW!!!

I have considered putting in an HID kit but somehow, something didn’t convince me that cross-meddling with technologies is good. Therefore I did a lil bit of research and found this http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...nversions.html . Have a read on why retrofitting HIDs isn’t a very bright (excuse the pun) idea. For those who are ready to dismiss this immediately; the article also explains that HID can give the illusion that they are better performing but actually might perform worse when compared to other lighting.

Here are the Ebay Bulbs $1 + $6 shipping = $7

Like a said, not HID but still a good improvement over stock..

has anyone by any chance have any experience on these headlights with projectors already in them?
http://www.sixty61.com/PROJECTOR-HID...ight%20kit.htm
The idea seems good to sell a replacement set of headlights with the projectors already installed but the price seems too cheap. the service to do this runs from 400-600 dollars and i'm starting to doubt the quality of these headlights. also, not all projectors are made the same, they can be projectors but crappy quality ones at that which don't perform as good as you have seen other projectors.

i've seen the exact same pictures and for the most part same price going around ebay selling these headlights. i've read feedback on the seller about this particular product and people seem to be pleased with them.:icon_shrug:

Oh wow, nice find.

Those do look very nice, but the price is kinda sketchy.
Just a new OEM headlight assembly is in the $300-$400 price range, again that brand new.

I wonder if they make the whole headlight assembly with projectors for the F4i though.
$199.00 would be an awesome price if they did.

Pretty sure that kit is for projector/halo eyes that you have to install into your light. You have to remove headlight from bike and heat up in oven to liquify the sealant around the lens to remove it. Then install those into headlight and put back together. Some kits are pretty easy to install while others require trimming and slight modification. I have ordered myself a set and will be installing them into my f4i. Ill be posting up all my findings when the time comes to install them.

Good job bumping a dead thread. ;)

Thread is just from December. Being that it is winter and some people take their time with mods and ordering parts it could very well still be a valid thread. I dont consider a month to be a dead thread.