itsMikey

i like the style personally so thats all that matters but im interested to see what you all think













the headlights are 10k DDMTuning.com HID's and the Fogs are New GM Factory Fogs with H3 Super White Sylvania's with the Yellow Tint Film

Mikey

luvmy64

NIGHT PICTURES PLEASE! Them things is BRITE!

karl's-92'-z28

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Night pics please.....

itsMikey

will do tonight haha..doesnt get dark till like 8:30pm tho.

BlackenedBird

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What DDMs did you use for the headlights? Projectors? Still have Hi/Low function?

itsMikey

http://www.ddmtuning.com/Products/DD...ast-35W-or-55W
you can get the hi/lo function but its extra so i didnt..there bright enough

not projectors. just ebay housings...they are H4 bulbs

BlackenedBird

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I don't think that would be legal here, not having Hi/Low functions. They could assume it is stuck on Hi & fail it.

Curious to see how your night time shots come out. Never seen a successful conversion with just those housings. I've just see light scattering up high that can blind oncoming drivers.

itsMikey

we dont have the inspections here...

and there aim'd really low..they dont go as far as id like but oh well. i like em

BlackenedBird

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No Inspections..............In SmogNaziFornia?

itsMikey

*sigh
no inspections as far as headlights...

20 more mins

itsMikey

Night Shots:

mike_c

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I'm surprised, the yellow fogs look pretty good. And man, that thing is low. What suspension are you running? Looks great!

itsMikey

thanks dude
suspension consists of
MOOG 750lb front springs with a coil and half cut
BMR 150lb rear drop springs with isolators removed to lower more
umi wonderbar
umi caster/camber plates
bmr strut tower brace
bmr outer subframe connectors
j&m panhard rod
energy endlinks
36mm front sway bar
26mm rear sway bar
(both sways are stock GTA parts)

heres a pic under the hood for a look at the camber/caster plates the strut tower brace

mike_c

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Similar setup to mine, though yours sits MUCH lower. I'm running Global West competition coils. Nice ride man.

itsMikey

oh dang..you know what? i think i saw your suspension setup somewhere on here now that i think about it..copy and pasted and made a checklist..hahah

with moog springs of course but yea

thanks dude really appreciate it when people tell me they think my cars nice because of all the time and effort and love i have in this thing..haha

mike_c

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I hear ya on that! A little appreciation goes a long way

itsMikey

hell yeah..its inspiring hahah

luvmy64

....now get some paint on that hood!!!! lol

86T/A_Ram_Air

one of the few that can actually drive a third gen at night and see

puma1552

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10k is way, way, way too hot to have good visibility.

Brightest, whitest, most effective HIDs are between 4300k-6000k.

TPI TERR

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looks good mikey!
i used to use the yellow h3 bulbs on my housings. they look good but i went with 6k hids

your suspension parts are coming along huh

DizzTransAm

Nice 240sx, oh wait...

itsMikey

nahh..gives it some personality

yup..can see a good 50ft in front of me at night
meh, i like em...
yeahh..the suspensions coming along haha..i just need LCA's and LCARBS..
but yea i saw ur fogs at la invasion, they looked good..
nope..lol..try again

Mike92Firebird

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I like the yellow! Looks good on a white car. I got an 89 GTA with 6k headlights and 8k HID fogs. I think they compliment eachother well.

karl's-92'-z28

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Dude i gotta wear sunglasses to look at your night pics!!!!!!

92RS(real slow)

I like it I wish my headlights and fogs where that bright lol

itsMikey

thanks dude!

haha..yeah, there bright.
thanks! DDMTuning.com for the HID's and ebay housings..

Mike92Firebird

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Not trying to thread-jack but I thought I'd show what a 6K headlight and 8K foglight combo looks like. Sharing is caring afterall.

Transmetal

I like the setup on the black gta much better than the white. Not tryin to hate but I think it looks better when the lights match. With that said those lights look bright as hell.

BlackenedBird

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How did you guys do the Fog Lights? Just a HID H1 bulb in a stock housing or what?

Mike92Firebird

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I think I'm the first one to do HID foglights on a trans am. I believe Mikey is just using normal bulbs with a yellow tint over them. And I had to modify the stock housing a bit. The metal shield in the housing has to be either removed or bent out of the way to make room for the slightly larger HID. H1 and h3 bulbs will fit though. I went with h3 on mine. After that you've just gotta find a secure spot to mount the ballast. The actual fog light housing needs to have the rear made a little larger by using a dremel tool. So that the bulb comfortably sits in place.

BlackenedBird

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Ah. You have a HID bulb in the stock housing not really designed for HID light output. I assumed you had actually fit in a HID projector using the stock housing to mount the projector keeping it looking stock on the outside.

I pulled the metal shields out of mine years ago & still run the stock-type bulbs.

Mike92Firebird

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I actually Don't know of a projector that's small enough or I would've tried by now

BlackenedBird

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I'm working on one, but I'm trying to retain the stock housing mount bolt locations & such. I'm within lacking about 1/8" for room for the projector to fit, but am getting REALLY close to not being able to use the bottom long cross bolt. I don't wanna lose that or the upper screw.

Mike92Firebird

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You'll have to show me how that works out! I'd love to see and give it a shot myself.

BlackenedBird

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I got the projector to fit by cutting out a good 1/3 of the back & still fits good under the stock lens but it also cut out most of the 2 bottom mounting holes for the cross-bolt, so I have to come up with a new mounting method. AND a god chunk of the mount bracket will have to be cut out for the back of the projector. I'm not keen on doing that so progress is at a stop for now.

And the stock lens is fluted which is obviously not good for a project beam behind Fabricating a new lens? How is the light output for the drivers sight, not just what a pic making it look bright looking at the car. How does it look out on the road from the drivers seat?

itsMikey

FWIW, the fogs are H3's

BlackenedBird

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Yeah. Never can keep it straight in my head, despite me having several spare H3s.

Mike92Firebird

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On my cheap non-projector set up, my foglights actually illuminate the road better than my headlights. Took me quite some time to aim correctly, but they really work nice. They've even got a cutoff line due to how I angled the metal shields. I'll try to have pics tomorrow. Makes me want to drive around at night with only my fogs on and the headlights left down. Yet I don't due to fear of being pulled over. That is illegal to drive with only my fogs on, even if they illuminate the road properly, because of some law that headlights must be a certain amount of inches from the ground, right? I heard that somewhere but I'm not sure.

Mike92Firebird

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Has since been aimed down a bit more.

80schild

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I just bought a 6k projector HID kit for my GTA and I noticed it comes with "built in city lights". Any idea what these "city lights" are? I'm assuming they're like daytime running lights and will be useless in a bird?

BlackenedBird

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In Texas, definitely. State height to pass/be legal minimum is 24", maximum 54". I got pulled over one one when my headlights wouldn't come on or even up. If we had gotten them to turn on, I could have just manually put them up & been gone about my business. Fortunately I was following my parents to dinner that bight so they saw me get pulled over, they turned around & came back. Cop let me take it to the gas station 100 yards up the road. Left it there over night & got it the next day. They worked fine the next day & always have since, yet they wouldn't even light up that night. And I did nothing to fix them, they fixed themselves.

You mean the housings has a city light? The small separate bulb? My housings had those in a separate hole below the headlight bulb, but that part will end up getting cut out once I fit the projectors in. I know it will for sure on mine, because I'm on my 3rd version of getting a true Hi/Low projector HID to fit in a pop-up headlight for my Firebird.

Mike92Firebird

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Yea the city lights are the most pointles things ever. It's one small little blue LED and with a bird, you'd never see it because you'd only notice it when your headlights are up, and when your headlights are up, the headlights would be on, so you wouldn't see the city light. Besides, it's far too blue of a light for me anyways. My cheap ebay projectors came with the city light as well. I just left it disconnected. I had it wired to go on with my headlights but it looked like poop.

80schild

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You must have the same ones I ordered, mine are coming from KT Auto. Do yours light the road any better than the stock lights? And, do you ever get flashed because people think your highs are on?

I went with 6k because that's the whitest they had, I would have preferred 5k.

Mike92Firebird

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I got the black projectors from a different brand but I'm sure they're exactly the same. They are actually horrible, I wish I would've went a chrome clear lens to reflect the light better. I would say my output is similar to stock, but they scatter light like a bi**ch. I also went with a 6K headlight and I like the color. Almost like daylight, not perfectly white, but not super blue. They do look really cool though because my car is black.

80schild

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Yeah it looks like they all come from the same manufacturer, just a different box. I looked at the black ones, but I think it actually stated on the listing that they were mostly for appearance, and the light output would be poor.

Hopefully I'll get my chrome ones installed within the next few weeks, so I'll post pics afterwards. I just hope they don't blind oncoming traffic.

Mike92Firebird

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I read that warning but couldn't imagine them being THAT much worse. Lol. As long as you aim them correctly you should be fine.

You need to make the back of your headlight housing bigger with a dremel for the new lenses to fit. Mikey did a post of how to install them.

maks10

Mikey, fogs look sweet!!! where u get those headlights???

itsMikey

thanks bro! the headlights are ebay housings with H4 DDMTuning.com HID's

80schild

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Got my 6k's put in today.

(The glare isnt as bad in person)