Not sure where this belongs, but with all the activity here, I thought it would be a good place to put it. (mods, pls move it where it is appropriate and assign me asshole points for putting into the wrong section! ).
Reference thread: http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showpo...&postcount=192
I didn't find anything on here about HIDs, which is why I posted on msf.
I am thinking about doing HID conversions on my 2006 and was thinking:
1. Do headlights with 4300K kit from stangmods, and do foglights with 4300K kit from stangmods.
http://www.stangmods.com/2005-Mustan...it-p/00909.htm
http://www.stangmods.com/2005-Mustan...it-p/00901.htm
2. Wire foglights to stay on with either lo/highbeams on. Pretty easy from what I have learned
3. Wire foglights to come on with highbeams only. Will require a total rewiring job (but I am an EE so that ain't an issue!).
The only thing that worries me is that the HID foglights will piss people off. Do you think I can paint the end of the HID bulb black so that the glare is lessened?
Thx,
Mike
Reference thread: http://forums.bradbarnett.net/showpo...&postcount=192
I am thinking about doing this to my '06 using the bi-xenon kit from stangmods.
http://www.stangmods.com/2005-Mustan...it-p/00909.htm
As for glare, what I find annoying/distracting is the really blue/purple ones that change color as you approach them. This has been my observations since they introduced these things, and yes, I have dog cussed these things on many an occasion. However, after having them in my new Lincoln MKz, I really like them and am a beliver in them.
The MKz's HIDs has lenses instead of reflectors. Since a lens is a refractive optical unit meaning that it bends the light, I see a band of purple and blue on the wall even though the temp of these lights are around 4100K. This is just like a prism bending white light in to a rainbow. It is that band of colored light that annoys the hell out of me when I have a car approaching me with similar lens setups.
Now for the ones that use reflectors, like our stock units have, I don't see that rainbow effect as the reflectors use a parabolic mirror to reflect the light and not a lens to bend it. That's a big difference from a physics standpoint.
That is why I've not been bothered by the ones like used in the Saleen or like I have seen in Mini Coopers.
Using the stock reflectors, even though there may be some unwanted scatter, it shoudn't matter as long as the low beam part of the bulb is not at what is called the "focus" of the parabolic reflector. The high beam part of the bulb should be at the focus to throw the light as far out as possible. Also, my '06 has the shield in place to prevent direct scatter from the front of the bulb.
If you look at old sealed beam headlights from yesteryears, you will see that one filament is at the focus of the parabola and the other is above it. It is the one that is above it that directs the light downward for low-beams. So if the bi-xenon kits have a similar arrangement, or mimic the stock bulb filament placement, they should not be that big of an issue.
I think the big difference in HIDs is the refractive units versus the reflective units and the glare caused by refractive units bending the light into its primary colors making you wonder what kind of UFO is that coming at you!
I want to do the foglights at the same time and am contemplating either rewiring them to stay on all the time regardless of hi/low beam, but I am concerned they don't have a shield in the front and will be annoying.
Any ideas on how to mod the foglight bulb so it will have a shield on it? Can you paint it black like the halogen bulbs?
Thx,
Mike
I didn't find anything on here about HIDs, which is why I posted on msf.
I am thinking about doing HID conversions on my 2006 and was thinking:
1. Do headlights with 4300K kit from stangmods, and do foglights with 4300K kit from stangmods.
http://www.stangmods.com/2005-Mustan...it-p/00909.htm
http://www.stangmods.com/2005-Mustan...it-p/00901.htm
2. Wire foglights to stay on with either lo/highbeams on. Pretty easy from what I have learned
3. Wire foglights to come on with highbeams only. Will require a total rewiring job (but I am an EE so that ain't an issue!).
The only thing that worries me is that the HID foglights will piss people off. Do you think I can paint the end of the HID bulb black so that the glare is lessened?
Thx,
Mike