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[vetali]

19 hours ago, Bitter said:

Rear bank converter to the Y pipe, rear rear cat got the nuts off but there wasn't any threads left on the studs so they got removed and bolts strung through with a shop-made reinforcing bracket because the cat flange looks about as bad as those nuts do.

Impressive. We just got info on the rod bearing recall... ugh. 1.2 to disassemble and submit pics, then 1.8 to replace rod bearings. Fortunately due to some insider info we don't have that many Honda rigs in our area with them. Its mostly Acuras and we can't do Acura recalls.

 

So imagine dropping that rusty ass exhaust for 1.2.

[Psittac]

Can't remember if I've shared this yet, had it about a year and a half. Was bone stock 2004 Toyota 4Runner V8 with almost 300k miles. Dealer maintained it's entire life from one owner with a blank check each visit.

 

I've put a lot of mods into it: lift, rack, lights, tent, bumper, slider, skid plate and more. Next thing is wheels and tires.

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, Psittac said:

Can't remember if I've shared this yet, had it about a year and a half. Was bone stock 2004 Toyota 4Runner V8 with almost 300k miles. Dealer maintained it's entire life from one owner with a blank check each visit.

 

I've put a lot of mods into it: lift, rack, lights, tent, bumper, slider, skid plate and more. Next thing is wheels and tires.

Turn off your high beams.

[Psittac]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Turn off your high beams.

Those aren't my high beams, those are the DRL's and projector low beams

 

This Still isn't my high beams lol

[Bitter]

Awful lot of off axis glare for not high beams.

[Psittac]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Awful lot of off axis glare for not high beams.

trust me, it's not high beams

[bcredeur97]

58 minutes ago, Psittac said:

trust me, it's not high beams

you're likely blinding people tho regardless  

[AlwaysFSX]

7 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

you're likely blinding people tho regardless  

Ah but we don't care about that detail anymore, do we?

[bcredeur97]

3 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Ah but we don't care about that detail anymore, do we?

Nah not really. All that matters is that the person driving the car can see. 

It's just a competition now. Can't see? Well I guess you need to add more light and lift your truck a little higher

[RevoltTrain]

3 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Ah but we don't care about that detail anymore, do we?

Why do they need to see if I can see?

[Psittac]

12 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

you're likely blinding people tho regardless  

 

5 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Ah but we don't care about that detail anymore, do we?

No I take it very serious, otherwise I'd flip all of my switches along with the middle finger.

 

If you aren't familiar with projector headlights look it up. I replaced my reflector housings with projectors, they cut the beam off at the horizon. That's the only way I do high powered bulbs. My mustang has diy projectors and 75w HID xenon bulbs. While my third car has OEM powered bulbs because it has reflectors.

 

The blow out in the picture is glow from the drl

[Bitter]

17 minutes ago, Psittac said:

The blow out in the picture is glow from the drl

Your DRL runs at night?

[Psittac]

2 hours ago, Bitter said:

Your DRL runs at night?

They're on any time the marker lights are on.

[Bitter]

45 minutes ago, Psittac said:

They're on any time the marker lights are on.

What's DRL stand for? I forgot.

[AlwaysFSX]

6 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Nah not really. All that matters is that the person driving the car can see. 

It's just a competition now. Can't see? Well I guess you need to add more light and lift your truck a little higher

I honestly hate new lights with a passion. They're blinding, have hard cutoffs instead of softer edges, glare in every fucking direction; they're not even better for you to see at night! My plain old yellow-white halogens do a far better job providing a safe light pattern for me and people around me than most modern lights do, which is kind of funny.

Edit, to add: Lights do not need to keep getting brighter to drive at 90mph in the middle of the night, you should adjust your speed accordingly and not out-drive your lights. This increase in brightness but shitty patterns/colors is pointless and creates more dangerous drivers. Also auto-high beams, dumb. So unbelievably dumb as fuck.

6 hours ago, RevoltTrain said:

Why do they need to see if I can see?

*lights up the world for everyone else*

4 hours ago, Psittac said:

The blow out in the picture is glow from the drl

Homie, your lights cast in every direction and blind other drivers as is. It is not your DRLs doing that. It's your projectors being flat out wrong.

[JoaoPRSousa]

Lmao

[Psittac]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

What's DRL stand for? I forgot.

Wow, you just like to nit pick and bicker.  Bet you make a lot of friends with that mentality

[vetali]

47 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

I honestly hate new lights with a passion. They're blinding, have hard cutoffs instead of softer edges, glare in every fucking direction; they're not even better for you to see at night! My plain old yellow-white halogens do a far better job providing a safe light pattern for me and people around me than most modern lights do, which is kind of funny.

Its just an arms race between OEMs at this point. Doesn't help that NHTSA now ranks headlights for top safety pick+.

[Bitter]

55 minutes ago, Psittac said:

Wow, you just like to nit pick and bicker.  Bet you make a lot of friends with that mentality

I mean, what's my username?

Daytime running lights are for...shocker...daytime! I like not being glared to death at night by Bozo's and clowns. Projectors are fine, but you have to fix those DRL to be actually daytime only my dude. They're so bright can anyone even tell if your turn signals are on in the front? Real DRL turn off on the side that has turn signal on for that exact reason.

[AlwaysFSX]

1 hour ago, vetali said:

Its just an arms race between OEMs at this point. Doesn't help that NHTSA now ranks headlights for top safety pick+.

Despite following no studies about what actually constitutes good properties for a headlight.

So.. weird..

[Bitter]

43 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Despite following no studies about what actually constitutes good properties for a headlight.

So.. weird..

They have to follow some REALLY bad and outdated federal standards and guidelines. We'd all be better off if they would just adopt ECE lighting regs.

[Bitter]

And for reference my old car started out with a D2S 1.o retrofit using some terrible Morimoto ballasts, eventually swapped up to some G5R running 50W F5 ballasts with clone fatboy 50W bulbs, then swapped down to 35W 85122's and just burned them at 50W, eventually I had a F5 ballast die so I swapped to a spare pair of F35 while I got a pair of potted Denso and then never looked back. Car was fully swapped to LED in every position, had a custom harness to dim the side markers so there was correct contrast between parking/marker light and turn signal brightness and so as to not blind everyone with bright yellow glare. 3rd brake light was a custom board with driver that put out about 400-500lm red/orange through the OE red fresnel filter and it was wicked bright. Reverse lights were about 500lm each finned heat sink LED's on a stalk, super good actually but a little green tinge. Car had quad brake/tail lights which are all 4 the old 'red rocket' style with 6x Cree XP G2 Red LED, 4 pointed into the reflector and 2 pointed straight out through a domed lens to 'replicate' a filament in the lamp. Everything was wicked bright in the car, even the dome light was a custom 120ma board in warm white Samsung emitters by a defunct guy known as SprengBoard.

[OhioYJ]

16 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

 Also auto-high beams, dumb. So unbelievably dumb as fuck.

Definitely agree with this. I'm just glad most OEMs still allow you turn this off and remember that you set it off, unlock other features that default to on... 

[Bitter]

2 hours ago, OhioYJ said:

Definitely agree with this. I'm just glad most OEMs still allow you turn this off and remember that you set it off, unlock other features that default to on... 

On my new Mazda they're actually pretty good for oncoming and traffic ahead, they only time they fail is for traffic crossing at 90 degrees at a distance, but that's because the sensor can't see what it's looking for to say 'yep that's a vehicle'. Otherwise they've been very reliable, as fast or faster than I would be to turn off and on at the right times.

[bcredeur97]

On 3/2/2024 at 9:05 PM, Bitter said:

They have to follow some REALLY bad and outdated federal standards and guidelines. We'd all be better off if they would just adopt ECE lighting regs.

 

On 3/2/2024 at 8:21 PM, AlwaysFSX said:

Despite following no studies about what actually constitutes good properties for a headlight.

So.. weird..

I want to try those audi laser headlights that are banned here(still I think?) 

It's not worth $3k per housing, but it seemed like a great idea

 

 

But yeah, classic halogen bulbs were the best. I was totally fine with the bulbs my corolla had (and miata has). THe touareg has HID's and they are ok. Better than LED's for me. Not sure about other people.