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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

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25 minutes ago, floofer said:

Technically when it rains most of my car is liquid cooled. Sometimes the driver is too. 

"sometimes"

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1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

"sometimes"

My feet started to get wet, I didn’t fix a firewall plug properly 

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15 hours ago, warmmilk said:

haha, where there's a will, there's a way

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8 hours ago, Bitter said:

Bullshit those bulbs do 6000 Lumen, maybe as a pair before thermal droop and probably not even then. If you can ID the chips and check the current draw you can see the wattage they're being driven at and math out the actual lumen output, I'd say in the neighborhood of 1800-2100 lumen actual per bulb before they get hot and drop output due to thermals. Just like a CPU, a LED is a diode and sheds waste heat, the more heat the less the output and the shorter the life span.

6000 lumen kit so 3000 per bulb. They’ve got pretty gnarly heatsinks on the back, so I guess we’ll see how they do. 

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7 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Yep. Liquid cool your headlights guys!

One of the guys in my office did an LED headlight conversion where the bulbs had big heatsinks and little tiny fans on them. 

 

EDIT: I've been really considering doing an LED conversion as well, just haven't taken the plunge yet.

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23 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

One of the guys in my office did an LED headlight conversion where the bulbs had big heatsinks and little tiny fans on them. 

 

EDIT: I've been really considering doing an LED conversion as well, just haven't taken the plunge yet.

lots of them have fans, especially the more powerful ones. Mine are fanless however.

 

These are the ones I got. Very cheap, and DOT approved.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K43XKDF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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51 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

lots of them have fans, especially the more powerful ones. Mine are fanless however.

 

These are the ones I got. Very cheap, and DOT approved.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K43XKDF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Here's the ones I'm considering, but it's $450 for low beam, high beam, and fogs. Which kinda stings. 

 

EDIT for less derp:

 

https://www.xenonhids.com/low-beam-h11-led-headlights-nova-series.html?i=5A4Zx

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29 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

Here's the ones I'm considering, but it's $450 for low beam, high beam, and fogs. Which kinda stings. 

was there supposed to be a link there?

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3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

was there supposed to be a link there?

Lol. Yes but I'm full of derp this morning.

 

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y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

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3 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

when your low/high beams are just one bulb only ?

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1 minute ago, terrytek said:

when your low/high beams are just one bulb only ?

my low and high beams are separate bulbs.

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Finally able to take the bike to school! Super fun to do, love riding it :D Did however leave the fuel tap on so when i came to take it home there was quite a puddle of gas under it :/

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17 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

y'all are rich! I spend $69 on low and high beams combined!

I just buy halogens xD

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Just now, bcredeur97 said:

I just buy halogens xD

I might be back to there too depending on how these turn out. As long as they work they weren't any more expensive than halogens anyway, so it was worth the risk.

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2 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I just buy halogens xD

There's nothing wrong with Halogens, but my last focus completely wore me out on changing light bulbs. So now when the first one dies on my current focus, I'm going to go all LEDs on the front.

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58 minutes ago, Real_PhillBert said:

There's nothing wrong with Halogens, but my last focus completely wore me out on changing light bulbs. So now when the first one dies on my current focus, I'm going to go all LEDs on the front.

I'll be watching to see how that goes. The stock lights in my ST2 are good (I think theyre halogens, cant remember) 

 

I've always loved the headlights on my mothers Expedition. It doesnt shoot the light straight ahead super far, but it lights up everything in a 180º area in front of the car really well. That mostly is because of the massive headlight design though, as it feel slike cars are trending towards super small slits for headlights.

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2 hours ago, Bitter said:

2 words, projector retrofit.

one acronym, PITA.

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1 hour ago, FuzzyYellow said:

one acronym, PITA.

is it tho?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Aozoom-New-Arrival-Nondestructive-Metal-3-0-H4-HID-Bi-Xenon-Lens-Projector-For-D2S-or/32846543942.html

That threaded shaft pops right into a H4 head lamp housing hole, or 9004. Pair of those, some good bulbs, pair of Fastbright F3 ballasts, some shrouds, Around $200 in parts and you've got head lights that rival $90,000 Mercedes and BMWs. All you need is an oven to open the head lamp. Seriously, took me about 2-3 hours to do my Mazda from start to finish.

 

Other head lamps have adapter brackets available to let you swap in other projectors or HID projectors bolt right into the same bracket that the Halogen used to. Some GM vehicles don't even need the head lamp split open, you can swap through the back cover!

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1 hour ago, vetali said:

-snip-

you're not driving fast enough

 

lol kidding aside, 420 miles. I see the joke here.

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