the extra wires are useful for putting your ballast somewhere that isnt right underneath your headlight, its just a little extension cord, if you dont use it you dont even need to tape them up.
i would try changing your ground, if possible you want the ground to be touching bare metal, not...
light output quality may be close, but there are different requirements for halogen lights than there are for hids, the upward light spill allowable in halogens to illuminate road signs would be blindingly bright in a hid application.
The lens holders may be interchangeable because the bowls...
im saying thats not possible because youre talking about two completely different light sources. The bowls may look really similar, but I promise you they are not identical. If they were you could get perfect light output throwing properly rebased hid bulbs in your halogen housing which we all...
pretty much does not mean identical. Were talking about light being directed and projected through a magnifying glass, that 1mm step in the cutoff turns into something like a 1ft tall cutoff step at distance.
mm differences in bowl shape and fillament/arc chamber placement can be the...
The hid one is designed to handle a hid bulb, the light emission characteristics of a hid bulb vs a halogen bulb are not the same, even if you get a rebased hid bulb to a halogen base it is close but its impossible for it to be the same
this picture gives some idea the difference
they look similar, probably both made by honda's usually projector manufacturer Stanley, but the bowls are definitely slightly different shapes, the shields have different contours, and the bulb sockets are different.
You can see the tabs cut in the one on the right to mount a 9006 or similar...
I wanna order one in case i do manage to make a trip out, do the shirts tend to run small or big, im normally a xxl but have had times where the xxl doesnt fit me
the ballast mounts from the bottom and the wire passes through to the bulb so that the electronics can be weather sealed. Its definitely not the same projector as the halogen models because oem hid bulbs are d2 or d4, and no halogen bulbs are made in that size, and the thing that goes on the...
From what i know they were mix and matched, like one factory building TLs got steps and the other got slopes. Theyre all made by the same manufacturers, same specs and otherwise identical
they come in what people tend to call step and slope varieties. the one Webby posted is the step, and the slope ones have a cutoff more like the hella youre thinking of i believe
ive been talking retros with people, its got me in the mood to get a new set going, im thinking of going TL/zkw this time around but theyre so big and i have so little time i may end up paying someone to retro them