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Old 06-01-2005, 01:00 AM
HIDGolf HIDGolf is offline
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Daniel Stern is a respected individual in the lighting industry. If you want maximum performance and saftey, follow his suggestions. Boring, standard, bulbs from Osram, Philips, Narva, GE, Sylvania, etc will give you the best performance. Everything else is marketing and will give you the impression of more light, without it really being there. Which I feel is dangerous as you may drive faster than you should because you feel you can see better, but you really see less.

Relays and larger wires will make a noticable difference that will actually give you more performance, and will put less load on your stock, 22 year old, electrical harness.

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/relays/relays.html

Im guessing these are for your SEL with Ecode headlamps? Do you have sealed beam replacements or are they the flush fitting lamps? If you have sealed beams replacement H4s (easy to replace if you should over heat one), you can use highwattage bulbs with relays and fuses. But I would stick to 55/100 watt to prevent causing excessive glare to other drivers. Remember, the higher the wattage, typically the shorter the life. So with a normal 55 watt low beam, you will get the same bulb life, but your high beam will be much more useful. Keep the fog lamp at 55watt. You will only hurt your and other people's vision, not to mention they are not as easy to find as 200mm H4 sealed beam replacements.

If you have the flush fitting Ecode lamps, stick with standard, boring, cheap, 55/60 watt H4s and 55watt H3 for fog. These headlamps are too expensive if you should melt something in there. Add relays/fuses/heavy duty connectors, and stick with standard (No blue or highwattage!) bulbs. If you dont have the leveling hooked up, put the money you would have into bulbs into this to improve you vision with a heavy load.

You could toss your highwattage bulbs up on ebay, and buy the fuses, relays, and heavy duty H4 connectors from Daniel Stern. Sure, blue bulbs are all the rage right now, but you wont be too worried about looking cool when your car is in a ditch cuz you couldnt see where your going.

Xpel.com has great headlamp protection products, and if you have the sealed beam replacement H4s, you can buy plastic headlamp protectors from Daniel Stern.

Dont forget to check out Dan's Aiming Page! Even if you go with SuPer Yo! BoI, BlInG BlInG, BuLbs! wOoT! wOoT!

http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html
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