I havent been around in a while because I dont have the Explorer anymore. But I figured some of the offroad guys would be interested in these.
I have been building a lifted golf cart and decided I wanted to have some large HID lights on a light bar. I was going to buy the Chinese 7" HIDs you see all over eBay. I was just worried about quality with them. So I started looking into other lights in the 7-9" range that I could convert to HID. If you ask why HID, its because the generator of my Yamaha golf cart can only handle 15 Amps.
I came across the Pro Comp 9131 and they looked like good candidates for a HID conversion. So I ordered them from Summit for something like $97 shipped for the pair. The HID kit is one of the cheaper ones from eBay. I went with this seller because I knew he sold the smaller ballasts. I knew this because I had just converted the headlights of the cart to HID last week. The HID kit was around $33 shipped.
So I have right at $130 in a nice pair of 8" HIDs.
Here are the pictures:
The 9131's dont use the standard H3 mounting method, so I used some high temp zip ties to hold the bulb in place. You could always drill and tap some machine screws in to the aluminum bulb holder instead.
The pigtails of the HID kit plugged right into the H3 wiring of the light. No splicing required.
This is how the ballast fits. Notice how the back of the light is flat while the reflector is curved? This is where the space comes from.
This is how it all fits in the case:
And here they are mouned to the adjustable light bar I built for the cart:
I have been building a lifted golf cart and decided I wanted to have some large HID lights on a light bar. I was going to buy the Chinese 7" HIDs you see all over eBay. I was just worried about quality with them. So I started looking into other lights in the 7-9" range that I could convert to HID. If you ask why HID, its because the generator of my Yamaha golf cart can only handle 15 Amps.
I came across the Pro Comp 9131 and they looked like good candidates for a HID conversion. So I ordered them from Summit for something like $97 shipped for the pair. The HID kit is one of the cheaper ones from eBay. I went with this seller because I knew he sold the smaller ballasts. I knew this because I had just converted the headlights of the cart to HID last week. The HID kit was around $33 shipped.
So I have right at $130 in a nice pair of 8" HIDs.
Here are the pictures:
The 9131's dont use the standard H3 mounting method, so I used some high temp zip ties to hold the bulb in place. You could always drill and tap some machine screws in to the aluminum bulb holder instead.
The pigtails of the HID kit plugged right into the H3 wiring of the light. No splicing required.
This is how the ballast fits. Notice how the back of the light is flat while the reflector is curved? This is where the space comes from.
This is how it all fits in the case:
And here they are mouned to the adjustable light bar I built for the cart:
