Do you guys think that it would be possible to take advantage of the space we have in our firebird headlight enclosures?

My goal is to achieve lighting similar to ANY new car... they all use custom lenses to focus light on the ground near the car, as well as off in the distance...

I am hoping that maybe I could mount two separate headlights in each door... one for long-distance (more of a spot-light), and another for lighting up the road really well in front of the car (more like a flood-lamp)...

This could be done either with two regular headlamps (like the Grand Prix headlamps, I think they are about 1/3 the height as ours.

Basically, whatever bulbs I put in there, I will basically just have the lower bulb aimed lower to the ground... I may be able to find some kit that has a "spotlight" bulb, as well as a "floodlamp" bulb that I can mount in there.. but I don't really know...

My question is, would there be a benefit of having two separate bulbs? Would this achieve the results I am looking for?

Should I just go with Silverstar enclosures or the conversion kits and put in the silverstar bulbs, THEN upgrade the fog lamps to some sort of Driving/Fog/Spot light kit?

I am just looking at the best way to light up the road, because right now, the headlights are not hacking it, and my brand new 55watt gold dichroic fog bulbs are hardly visible... EVER... they are really just for looks I guess...

Thanks...

-Steve

 

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I posted this in the other thread... but would something like this be plausible?

 

You could do that, but I'm not sure there would even be enough room to add anything else to the headlamp housing if you left lights within in as well. Esp with brights as big as the pic shows. Be alot of stress on the system with all the extra popping up and down that would cause. I thinkg how much I turn the brights on and off at night.

You could just beef up the bulbs in your existing system by adding a headlight conversion to an H4 use a high wattage bulb and leave the blasted things on bright. When you want them turn on the lights, otherwise just beef up the fogs to have enough light for driving by. Just don't even use the dims!

 

I think you just completely over complicated the whole high/beam thing

High:throw light all around to light up the road on faster crusing
low:spotlight down and around to not blind others and focus on the area around you...

meh.

 

maybe I got the wording wrong... but when I turn on my brights, I just want to see further... not necessarily a large spread of light to the sides...

redraif... the picture is not to scale, really... the HID low-beam would be as large as it looks in the first picture, and then I'd basically just find some way to cram in a ultra-high wattage bright light...

to top it off, I may put dual-brightness bulbs in the fog location, so that I wouldn't have to raise/lower the headlights all the time...

I find that when I'm driving, I HARDLY ever use my brights... only for flashing others, but in that case, I still normally just use my fogs to flash.

I'd mount another switch somewhere, maybe near the fog switch, that would pop up the headlights and unleash the quite illegal bright lights... I may consider the h4 conversions and put in some of those off-road only bulbs.

I still like the idea of putting in the HIDs, so that when the doors are closed, they are used for low-beam... then you hit the bright switch on the steering column, it turns the fogs on bright (assuming I can aim these properly, with the correct lenses, it may be enough to never have to use the BRIGHT brights)... and it I just feel like flashing some ******* that cut me off... he'll get the 150-watt offroad bulbs, plus the 100 watt fog brights on him... that would probably be annoying...