Ive got a friend who works ans an EE at Sylvania. At one time he converted his Integra over... Maybe I oughta ask him...
Anyway... Ive been TOLD (but cant confirm) that one of the issues is how HID bulbs "work". If you have seperate Hi/lo beams (aka the 16v dual setup) it sorta will work. But it WONT work if you have the cheezy 6054 sealed dual beam configuration. Id guess that the HID bulb does not have the "shield" that the H4 bulb does for the low side. What I have been told is that HID lens require a very different "heat" factor and that the "depth" that the filiment sits in is VERY critical to proper focusing of the light. That means that inserting HID filaments from another car might "look" like HID, but wont *work* like HID. Also as hinted at before - HID filaments inserted into a H4 lens will only have a high beam - (or only a low beam) and not both. It looks like the Sylvania system inserts a H3 bulb for the high beam side... That being said - the Sylvania advantage is that it appears to be be DOT legal - or at least "Headlight Upgrade Systems comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 108 and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Specification J2009 for Discharge Forward Lighting Systems" - whatever that means. Then again - thats a lotta moolah for lights... Ewong __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
