[Re: scirocco headlights are bright enough]

[derrickmd18@juno.com (der flo)]

Noa. I live in Baltimore city and its a ways from me.  I'm going to H2O
though and the Englishtown events.  yea they are 20 bucks each for the
non sealed beams.  I'm going to try the relay hook up but I 'm most
likely going to hook the 80watt ones up first and check.


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:14:15 -0400 Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net> writes:
> I didn't call up the JC Whitney page, but if you want to upgrade the 
> existing
> quads, the easiest way is to get rid of the sealed beams in favour 
> of quads
> with lenses and removeable bulbs, which can be changed to upgrade 
> brightness
> (they'll likely have H1 or H4 molded into the glass lens). The only 
> problem is
> they are really pricey new. But if you do enough yard scrounging,(or 
> in my
> case, list begging) you may at least be able to find some cheap used 
> ones. At
> least this way you can keep your headlight frames. But look at the 
> tech
> procedure for the relays on the .org. Even if you're not a wiring 
> person, you
> can easily go back to the stock wires, since the relay setup shown 
> only
> requires splicing into a few of the stock wires, so they pretty much 
> can stay
> there till you are secure enough that your new and improved system 
> works well.
> Heck, if I can do it, any one can. As TBerk said, may as well relay 
> the stock
> lights first. Oh, and you can leave off the city light wires if you 
> do the
> .org method, stock NA don't have city lights AFAIK.
> 
> Coming to Cincy? I bet there are quite a few people who would help 
> you rig it
> up if you brought the wires/relays/connectors.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> der flo <derrickmd18@juno.com> wrote:
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> > ok.  this it the lights I was looking at.
> > http://www.jcwhitney.com/item.jhtml?ITEMID=1090&BQ=jcw2
> > they are 80watt lights.  I'm not a wire person as some of u might 
> know
> > from my previous problems with wiring.  that why I was looking for 
> a
> > brighter light that is a just bolts on type of installation.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT) Jeffrey Lowe
> > <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > I agree, I upgraded, albiet overkill, to 8 guage
> > > wires, and silly amounts of relays. I'm running
> > > standard 60/55 H4's, and PIAA All Weather 80w H3's
> > > with this setup. There was major improvement over both
> > > OEM US spec, and non-relayed Euro's. 
> > > I'm getting ready to install my just recieved set of
> > > hard to find Bosch Crystal Jupiter H4's that blast
> > > away at 4180K, right at the top of the bright white
> > > color spectrum, but not into the blue. 
> > > 
> > > --- T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > > der flo wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I have some stock headlights but they aren't
> > > > > bright at night.  I'm goin got buy some new ones 
> > > > > but I want some with more watts then stock.  I
> > > > > don't have the money for euro lights but I'm,
> > > > > going ot get some replacement lights that don't 
> > > > > have the solid bulb.
> > > > > What watt can I get and keep the stock wiring?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 1st thing you do is relay your current lights. This
> > > > will brighten the stock setup and lay the path for 
> > > > the future.
> > > > 
> > > > TBerk
> > > 
> > > 
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