Performance Lighting

Im collecting info here and there to make an HID thread (All you need to know) type deal, and I would love to have some beam shots to post in there. Plus I think this would be a nifty thread. Remember, HIDs only. Any gen X, any style headlights! (Stock, Diamond-Cuts, Projectors, ETC) (If you do not want your pictures copied into another thread, simply add that to your post; not all pics will be used. Just a few.) These were my HORRIBLE 6000k eBay HIDs, in my CCFL Halo Projectors: Just my 10,000k fogs: 6000k eBay HIDs before aiming: Both The pictures really define the glares mine had for some reason. It wasnt so choppy in person. Now I have a set of 5000k Retro-Solutions Digital HIDs, and its amazing. They still...

so i purchased this kit last week, kit arrived very quickly and from what they had said on their website these kits were suposed to be good. installation was fairly easy aswell. test fired the lights and let them burn in and everything worked good. same night i go to my gfs place, leave and one bulb isnt working. by the time i leave her parking lot its working again. get home and the same thing happens after the trucks sat for an hour. today i hop in, both work fine, i leave for walmart across town. get out and now the driver side wont fire. last night the pass wouldnt work, tonite the driver side wont. it flickers like its about to turn on but thats where it stops. so i get home and check my wires. relocate my grounds righ...

Would it be possible to switch the corner light with the top light? I think it would give the Explorer a more unique look. Do the plugs just swap? Has anyone done this before? Could someone do a Photoshop?

so i decided i wanted my puddle lights to be brighter, i already had 6 10mm led in each, well i found this "instructable" for a high power led driver that was really simple to do http://www.instructables.com/id/Super-simple-high-power-LED-driver/ . With high power led you need a "driver" you can buy some for about $5. So i got some 3 watt leds (110 lumens @ 700mA) so i got a LM317 and a 1.8 ohm 1W resistor. now the resistor will change depending on how many leds you want to hook up and what mA you want to give them things you'll need LM317 Resistor Aluminum (for the heat sink) High Power LED's Solder and some wire Thermal compound here what some of the parts look like Connected the resistor to the regulator...

So my Dad bought me HIDs for my fog lights for Christmas :) They came in today but he dose not know I found them...Secret... There 10,000K I will get some pictures on December 24th nite when I put them in :)

I recently purchased a set of 50 265k mcd LEDs and they came in... im making 2 boards, 9 LEDs per light, for the reverse lights... ill post pics soon when i start

I'd like to do 2 big ass KC daylighters or something similar but I don't have a grille gaurd to mount them on yet so I'm just gona drill them into the front bumper but i'm scared how this will look. Does anyone have pictures of some KC's or similar lights drilled onto the front bumper?...does anyone think it would look amazingly horrid on my eddie?

I have had the Diamond Cut Headlights on my '99 for quite a while now and have been very happy with them I just noticed that the drivers side light has fogged up. Anyone else with these lights have this problem? Thoughts... ideas... duggestions Thanks

My latest mod to my Explorer. All lit up

I have only known KC lights, and thats what I use. I love the lights, rugged and bright. How do they compare to PIAA and Hella's? Have I been missing out on much?

Hello explorer owners... thought I would share a good tip with you guys from the Toyota forums. If you use 9006 bulbs (I think most of the 2gen maybe 3gen explorers?) you can switch to HIR bulbs and get a noticeable increase of light output. These bulbs do not melt your housing, they do not draw more current, and they are not an obnoxious ricer-color. Google HIR if you want more info on them, but they are a proven technology which increases the light output of the bulb without any extra gimmicks. These bulbs are legal and last at least as long. They are better than Silver Stars (and Ultra, al) and don't need the upgraded harness do-dad. Previously they were expensive, somewhat too expensive... but a guy on the toyota forum I'm on...

Here is the start of my retrofit Before (Dirty Lens) Before without lens First one installed (dirty lens) Both installed no lenses (I need to buff the lenses) Clean Driverside Lens! Clean Passenger Lens! All I could find to clean was Turtle Wax Headlight Lens Restore but it seemed to work well! Angel Eyes LED (testing) passenger headlight LED Angel eye mounted test Driverside headlight LED Angel eye mounted test both Headlights LED Angel eyes mounted test Still not fully aimed, and need to paint the grill, more pics to come! These are now on a 96 Explorer :-D

Well I finaly got my lights and got them all wired up. So here are the pics, Will get better day time and will go to a dirt road and take a pic of how far they go. LED halos(without flash) 100w a peice (flash) (without flash) What do you think?

Can someone tell me how to replace the bulb in this sucker?

Just a thought I had the other night when walking to the sport...would it be possible to make my puddle lights a color other than white? Im thinking blue, but red would look evil too. These are the lights on the bottom sides of the mirrors. Im thinking the easiest way would be to color the lens somehow, havent looked inside of them yet to see about the bulbs. Anyne know off hand what kind are in there?