# HID conversion kit High/Low beam

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hid-conversion-kit-high-low-beam/135090
**Category:** Canada Nissan Automotive
**Created:** [January 9, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hid-conversion-kit-high-low-beam/135090 "2008-01-09T14:34:18Z")
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### Author: ![ismo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/278dde/32.png) [@ismo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ismo)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hid-conversion-kit-high-low-beam/135090/5 "2008-01-09T22:07:39Z")

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> [@Nice engine swap on eBay](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nice-engine-swap-on-ebay/2788/2):
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> You can do one of two, or both things to adjust the headlights. Either try your best to twist and jiggle the bulb in the housing to get the best optics, or you can use the stock adjuster tabs on the stock housing
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> You misunderstood. A retro fit is when you take the entire HID system from a car that came with HID, and you put it into the headlight housing of a car that didn’t have it from the factory. Like on my Nissan 300ZX for example. I put Acura TSX projectors in, and bulbs, ballasts and ignitors from a Subaru STI. On my Datsun 200SX, I put in projectors, bulbs, ballasts and ignitors on from a Mercedes E55 AMG. That setup is BiXenon, where it has the movable shield to switch from Low Beam to high beam on just one bulb.  
> If I remember correctly, the Lancer did not have a stock HID system.
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> How they make it look good, it really depends. But an efficient HID system is not about how “sexy” it looks from a spectators view, but about how good the optics are down the road and how well it minimizes glare. One good thing that people can do to minimize clear, is with standard Projectors, when you spray all chrome pieces to flat black, that reduces the amount of apparent glare from the housing. The colour means jack shit. In fact, if it’s blue, the amount of outward light is crappy. The ideal is WHITE. Usually WHITE only displayed at the 4100 - 4300K mark. Getting up to 6000K is way too blue.
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> I have no idea what you mean about the bulb cap, but I was saying that based on the type of system it is, they had no choice to remove the highbeam.

Hey dude, thanks again for the info, i really get the picture now, i think i’ll tell here first to get her headlight housing sprayed black to reduce the intese glare, second, i personally would stick with stock lighting after finding this out, but tell her to also get the bulb angled downward if its possible.

i also agree vanity comes second to function, i bet the ones i saw were retro fitted hid equipment on those really good oem looking hids i saw.

thinking back i think they must be either a lower kelvin or just looks white because its glaring off the chrome in the headlights, does seem to have a slight hint of blue.

damm, i always end up learning a whole lot more then i tend to get into, about every part i mistakingly think would be easy to inquire about.lol

thanks.

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