has anyone placed silverstars in the halo projectors yet? are they any brighter and have you had any problems such as melting?

 

i have silverstars in my regular lights.

waste of money.
barely noticable from stock bulbs.

i have projectors and HID's on the way.

 

I have projectors and I have tried the XEON bulbs which is a waste of time. I have H1 100W bulbs waiting to go in. will try in High beam first then low beam. I will keep everyone informed as to how that goes.

an0malous, let us know your results with HIDS.

anyone else with HIDS and projectors? calling you out.

 

Did this a few weeks ago.

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/appearance-48/hids-installed-projectors-56k-ease-like-gentleman-40217/

 

I have silverstars in my projectors, they are brighter than the bulbs that came with it, but they still dont seem bright enough. The only reason I havent done a HID conversion is beacause the waring label on the halos when i bought them. If everyone says that these things wont melt, then im deffenetly going with HID. Any recomendations on what HID kit to purchase?

 

HIDs won't melt your projectors. HIDs draw 35W while normal Halogen bulbs like the ones you have in there draw 55W. So HIDs will actually run cooler. The reason the warning label is on the projectors is because HID bulbs may not fit properly. If your kit is anything like mine (which almost all HID kits will be), you'll have to slightly modify the projector to fit the HID bulb. See my thread (link above) for a diagram on the modification. It's simple and takes 2 minutes to make them fit.

A few vendors on this site offer HID conversion kits. I bought mine on eBay for cheaper, and haven't had a problem with them yet.

 

Good to hear that my projects arent going to melt. I found this site www.cqlight.ca They have H1 kits for 179.99, I dont know about the quallity, but the price is awsome. If anyone has heard anything good or bad regarding this site, let me know.

 

have a look at the visionbulbs holiday special
$200 shipped.

and it states right in the thread that they are a new type of bulb that is projector friendly.

thats whats coming to my house soon

 

I checked visionbulbs, The cheapest I could find H1's for was 259.99 Maybe I missed the holiday special. Oh well, I think im going with the ones at cqlight. The question is what color temperature. Is 12000k to purple?

 

The warning is most likely refering to Xenon gas charged halogen bulbs . Those higher watt halogen bulbs put out alot more heat . Like stated by PpAzZ1101 , real HID bulbs are alot cooler running .

 

With the projectors, I have 8000K and that's a little purple. I'm planning on buying a set of 6000K bulbs to see if they are a little bit less purple.

 

8k purple??
thats sounds a little strange.
most of the examples ive seen show 8k and 10k to be different shades of blue....with 12k leaning into the purple color

 

Yeah, but the lens has a lot to do with it as well. I'm 100% positive these are 8000K bulbs... but they have a purple tint when outside of the cutoff. When you are in the beam, they are bluish white.

 

ahhh thats different then.
your talking about an area that the light has been been effected by "dispersion"

that effect is likely going to happen with ANY color of light to a certain extent, when it is passed through a lens.

but that beam is the important part.

 

Correct. The beam is the important part. That's why I was suggesting not to go with 12000K. I assume he wanted a purple tint for the way it looks... not the quality of the output. The problem is that the higher the color temperature, the less visible that light is to the human eye. So he can get the purple appearance without sacrificing the visibility by staying with a lower color temperature.

 

Well you guys, I just purchased the 8000k HID kit from www.cqlight.ca Hopefully they will arive before this weekend. I will try to post some pics when I get them in. Thanks for the help.

 

So, do the projectors use the same method of aiming as the stock headlights? I had to re-aim my passenger headlight the other day (not sure how it had somehow magically aimed itself too high--people were flashing me at night and I checked it out, and sure enough it looked like I had my brights on...). I was really surprised at how easy it was. Do they aim with an Allen wrench like the stock ones, or how does that work?

Projectors with HIDs would be cool, but I don't want to blind anyone...

 

id like to know this as well

 

The projectors have seperate adjusters for the high and low beams. But they are not the easiest to adjust. With mine I have to take out the entire assembly, turn a couple screws, reinstall them, and check for proper aim. Its kind of a hassle, but once you know which screw does what, its not that hard, just time consuming.