Holy jesus Adam, WTF is with all the blue loom again?!?!?

And attaching the boxes to the bumper is a bad idea, it vibrates quite a bit, and they'll for SURE get damaged in an accident. Look at the DIY I put up, where I put them is very safe.

 

^^ The bumper vibrates as much as the rest of the car. I'm sure my headlights are mounted just as firmly. I went through possible scenarios. I was planning on mounting them under the headlights, but I decided to mount them in an easier location alltogether. The bumper provides support, security, and shielding from the elements. After looking at all the possible locations, it seemed to be the best. If I ever wreck, the headlights will probly be destroyed anyways. I have run my strobe ballasts from inside my bumper for 8 months with no problems, so I think it should be alright.

I like my wire loom. It keeps my wires neat and organized. It provides electrical protection to the extra wires i've installed. It's easy to clean with silicone and a brush. It does not deteriorate or get ugly like aluminum or rubber hose. It stays clean longer then most stuff in my engine bay. If I had it my way, my car would be Blue, Black and Silver. It's hard to keep black hose black, I'm not taking off the greenish fittings to paint them, and aluminum dulls quickly from silver color back to aluminum. Wire loom keeps it neat, organized, protected, blue and clean.

I could go black, but I like blue. It goes with the rest of my car. Here's a picture of the inside of my car. http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f100/out...am/000_0283.jpg




I've got so many extra wires running everywhere, that if I didn't add alot of extra wire looms, my car would look like a spider web. May as well be blue.

 

4,100k - 4,700k is as close to white as you can get from what I remember. Upwards from there goes to into blue and then into purple.

You want more white than anything... white bounces off the ground, colors are absorbed into the darkness, so white would give you the most visibility... blue just looks freakin' cool.

I wasn't raising questions as to whether they're fake or not, I was simply interested in buying some for my Mustang (my tib has 8,000k).

FYI - the K stands for Kelvin, not 000 (thousand). HIDs are measured on the Kelvin scale. I think REDZ'z picture is fairly accurate form what I've experienced.

DTN - can't see your pics (blocked by work) - i'll look later tonight and comment. I mounted my driver's side HID ballast in a hole previously used by the factory airbox. The other sits snug right next to the washer fluid resevoir

 

Shit DTN, I didn't know you had your seats done.

 

pics look good, install looks clean. Hard for me to tell where the ballasts are mounted though.
use black loom for your engine bay. it'll make it look cleaner and less cluttered

 

The ballasts are mounted inside the bumper. The bumper makes kind of a U shape. It's on the bottom of that U.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DrivingTibNaked @ Sep 20 2007, 04:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>^^ The bumper vibrates as much as the rest of the car. I'm sure my headlights are mounted just as firmly. I went through possible scenarios. I was planning on mounting them under the headlights, but I decided to mount them in an easier location alltogether. The bumper provides support, security, and shielding from the elements. After looking at all the possible locations, it seemed to be the best. If I ever wreck, the headlights will probly be destroyed anyways. I have run my strobe ballasts from inside my bumper for 8 months with no problems, so I think it should be alright.</div>

Ehh...

Adam, I know you aren't stupid.

Go out and kick your fender.

No vibration.

Now kick your bumper.

Vibration.

Bumper = flexible plastic.
Fender = Sheet metal.

WOuld you rather just replace the bulbs, or the ballasts and bulbs?

 

^^ you're talking about the bumper cover. i'm talking about the bumper. The bumper is made of like 3/8" ABS. It wont move. I mounted mine inside the actual bumper.

 

inside the bumper is a popular place with the BMW crowd.. ours are extruded aluminum, not plastic though, but like DTN said, they are solidly mounted to the car, while the outer cover is only held on by some lightweight hardware.


Color temperature
The kelvin is often used in the measure of the color temperature of light sources. Color temperature is based upon the principle that a black body radiator emits light whose color depends on the temperature of the radiator. Black bodies with temperatures below about 4000 K appear reddish whereas those above about 7500 K appear bluish. Color temperature is important in the fields of image projection and photography where a color temperature of approximately 5500 K is required to match “daylight” film emulsions. In astronomy, the stellar classification of stars and their place on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are based, in part, upon their surface temperature. The Sun for instance, has an effective photosphere temperature of 5778 K.

 

^^ Mine is softer then aluminum. I've drilled some holes in it, it acts like thick ABS. Are you sure it's aluminum? Is it possible that there is more then one type? Is that the type of aluminum?