[DMCForum] Re: walt.. HID headlights

["snextime" <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.boom.net/~aos/delorean/xenarc/ Here is the website with the HID light 
install.

Mark V

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> Misha,
> 
> I bought the Sylvania Xenarc thru Sylvania's web site.  They
> cost several hundred dollars and then came down in price
> shortly after I bought them (as luck would have it.)  This
> was well over a year ago, and I still haven't installed them
> yet.  My so-called job keeps me too busy.  The lights that
> are in the car work, and there are too many other parts of
> the car that need attention first.
> 
> I hooked them up to a car battery & aimed them around.  The
> beam pattern is similar to European style beam patterns.
> They are far superior to the sawed-off shot gun beam pattern
> of traditional American headlights.  But unfortunately they
> still f'ed it up.  How do I describe the beam pattern?  The
> top of the beam pattern is a horizontal line.  It's dark
> above that and bright below.  But in the middle of the
> pattern there is a bright spot which kills it for meeting
> true E code specs.  Also for E code the passenger side of
> the beam pattern should angle higher, but the Xenarcs are
> flat all the way across (with the bright spot in the
> middle).
> 
> Whatever you decide to buy, I suggest choosing a setup that
> will give a legal beam pattern.  People are selling
> aftermarket HID kits that have beam patterns that are much
> worse than American standards.  When you use an HID with the
> wrong reflector then you become a road hazard.
> 
> At least with the Xenarc setup, you can keep the light
> pattern mostly on the road and out of people's eyes.  It's
> also cool seeing the chromatic aberration around the
> perimeter of the beam pattern.  It makes it look like your
> headlights are changing colors when you see the car from a
> distance and off to the side.
> 
> Somewhere on the DMCNews.com technical section someone shows
> how they installed Xenarc HIDs on their DeLorean.  But they
> turned it into a spaghetti bowl because they didn't want to
> shorten Sylvania's wiring harness.
> 
> Hey Misha, do you realize what the spell checker suggests I
> should replace your name with. :-)
> 
> Walt    Tampa, Florida

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