Hello. I'm searching second best option for headlights. I know retrofit with morimoto projectors ate the best but $$ is the issue at the time. Any decent aftermarket housings available? Looking for good low beam, high beam isn't so important! Already have enough auxillary lights so I can see far! Also has to be with two bulb housing because my trucks headlights have been modified to meet European standards ( Hella projectors in high and low beam ). Light output is is junk!! Low beam has now H7 bulb and high beam is HB3 bulb! Sorry long story but dark times are coming and greetings from Finland!

It's risky business to drive with bad lights, lots of moose and white tails here too. Just couple of days ago friend crashed with whitetail, his Opel's frond end was trashed!!

One question about halogen bulbs! Want to get good quality h1 bulbs, here in Finland we have Phillips and Osram bulbs. I found PIAA bulbs from ebay, quite pricey but how's the quality?? Don't want to use 100w bulbs and melt the housings! I want to avoid leds because they don't produce heat and our weather here in winter is so unpredictable. Light will be covered with ice and snow!

21 minutes ago, Finlandese said:

It's risky business to drive with bad lights, lots of moose and white tails here too. Just couple of days ago friend crashed with whitetail, his Opel's frond end was trashed!!

 

That is why I liked the wider angle of the D2S lens. I've got the same problem lots of early morning and early evening deer and elk. Like last night there was a deer stand right next to the guard rail of the highway. Lot of times they stand right in the road side ditch. With standard headlight this area is very dimly lit with any light. 

 

Like my 1996 with clear lens headlight and SilverStar halogen have that same stockish problem plenty of light on the highway road edge is will rather dim in light if any at all. This is mostly the poor quality of the headlight housing its self. If I wanted better pattern I would be continuing to change housing till I got a good pattern. Bulb's won't do anything but make it bright in the same pattern since the reflector won't change.  

Edited September 11, 20195 yr by Mopar1973Man

I don't run the brights 99% of the time I think if others more than myself 

Out here 99% your solo on the highway night driving and winter weather. High beams, and driving lights are a must. 

 

LED Light Bars. Not cool. Very blinding..

On 9/8/2019 at 8:26 PM, Bullet said:

Loving the hood ornament too!  Give us a better look at it...

A friend of mine accidentally ordered 2 of these so he let me have one.  I'm still not sure if I want to keep it on the truck, I only mounted it to the grill as I need a new one anyhow.  If I decide to pull it off I just slap the new grill on and it's back to normal.  My wife thinks it's a hoot staring at a duck butt while we drive though. 

That's a mean lookin duck!  I bet no birds even think about crapping on your truck...

Scott, the man installing my gas line, gave me this today. Came off a 40 model Plymouth. Old model Rams head. 

Darn thing even fits on the hood.

Sweet...that sucker is huge!  Let's get it mounted up and see what it looks like.  Being that I'm in Texas I'd like to get a set of real ram horns mounted on my hood...just like all the Cadillacs in the movies have the longhorns mounted on the hood. 

11 hours ago, Bullet said:

Sweet...that sucker is huge!  Let's get it mounted up and see what it looks like.  Being that I'm in Texas I'd like to get a set of real ram horns mounted on my hood...just like all the Cadillacs in the movies have the longhorns mounted on the hood. 

These are not that big but the horns come off. Its not one casting.

6 hours ago, dripley said:

These are not that big but the horns come off. Its not one casting.

The ram looks good...shine it up real good and you got a winner.  Why does it look like it has dreadlocks out the back?  

2 hours ago, Bullet said:

The ram looks good...shine it up real good and you got a winner.  Why does it look like it has dreadlocks out the back?  

Had to lay something on it to hold it there. Just kept sliding off the hood.

Oh...I see.  The dreadlocks are not necessarily a bad look.  Makes it look like it should be playing running back in the NFL...or holding up a convenience store with its pants around its thighs.  On second thought...maybe that's a bad idea. 

On 9/6/2019 at 8:15 PM, Mopar1973Man said:

 

Works if there is someone ahead of you but if you live out here where I do it's common to come home night or leave early morning and not see anyone for miles. 

 

 

Still an OK way of getting around the lighting issue. If the pattern is poor from a low quality housing brighter bulb is just going to make a brighter poor pattern still. It was a another old time member here that made the comment about optics and I admit I ignored him but now after seeing excellent optics just nothing comes close. 

 

Like for years I ran seal beam tractor lights that were 100w bulbs halogen but again the optics got poor and the life span was getting shorter and the bulb price was getting higher. Two bulbs on lo beam and two bulbs on hi beam. Was again a OK solution but pattern and optics were say average. The old system with high quality SilverStar halogen bulbs and tractor bulbs was huge electrical draw worse with Sport headlights. 45w (90w pair) on lo beam and 65w (130w pair) on hi beam. Then two 100w (200w pair) tractor lights. Total was 290w (22.3 Amps) this was on low beam, then 330w (27.5 Amps) on hi beam. 

 

Here was the Sport Headlight and my old school tractor lights. 

 

Now with the current setup Morimoto D2S HID's and 530 PIAA LED driving lights. High and low beam use the same bulb and use a shutter to create hi/lo beam. Hi and Lo Beams now are Morimoto HID's are 35w and the PIAAs are 18w. Double both for a total of 106w (8.8 Amps) which this is a 312% saving of power and reduction of load on the alternator. More light, less drag.

 

You can see the hot spot of the PIAAs but the light span is the Morimoto's...

 

Here is hi beam... You can see the arc in the center this grows quite large with distance. 

Hey Mopar you don’t happen to have a shot of the Morimotos in the day looking at the pickup like your sport headlight pic? Curious how they’d look with the old man vibe of my tan and silver rig. Thanks! 

 

Just had sylvain silver star burn out. Replaced with a pair of zxe sylvania. Just barely noticably brighter than the silver stars. These are 9004 bulbs.

 

I dont know that I need anymore light than this. My old lenses need replaced. I keep polishing and it gets grunchy fast

 

Now we are back on normal time I can shot some headlight photos again. Wicked seeing a full mile down the road and lighting up 50 foot trees to the top and seeing 50 feet out past the pavement.

Yours do work well.

I'm excited to get some clean clear sport lenses. The 9007 low beam and clean lenses should make a noticable improvement .

 

 

Not really. I got a set of Sport Headlights (clear lens) and did the relay mod and wasn't very good. That is what pushed me to sell my sport headlights and move on to the HID's.

Honestly something keeps popping up that needs a couple hundred bucks more than headlights.

 

My broke jetta has the 9007 bulbs so all I have to buy are the sport lights and toss bulbs in.

Debating on doing my own relay wiring or buy a bright box to run all 4blbs on high.

 

Or not even run high beams I rarely do anyways but might if I could run all 4.

Electrical scares me.

 

What's it cost if a guy was ballsey enough to the hid headlight build himself.?

 

I'm sure if I read this thread someone says 

Edited November 5, 20195 yr by Evan

Ask @Me78569 he know where to buy the kits.