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ok ive searched and read through countless threads and i didnt really get a straight answer
i know the 4700k is the best wattage for the bulb. im going to buy the ones in the group buy.http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...threadid=90949
and u need a wiring harness i found it here http://216.82.69.117/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=HH-H4

now then i want to know if people with low beam only wishes that they got the bixenon where u can do high and low. i can live with out it if the low beam is bright enough.
and how is the beam pattern with the oem headlights?

 
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Can you tell me why would we need a wiring harness? Doesn't the set comes with everything we need? TIA

 
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4700k is the Kelvin temperature, not the wattage. Why would you need a wiring harness? HID bulbs only burn at 35w, which is almost half what our stock bulbs burn at.

Bartkat had the lows only before he sold his Civic.

 
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You do not need an extra wiring harness. but I would NOT buy that kit. If you look closely at the bulbs, they are D2R bulbs, also I don't see any type of glare shield. 8000K is way too high... you are just wasting light.

 
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ok ok. no wiring harness needed good.
i didnt want to buy em anyways.

so whats the beam pattern like?

 
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Here's my beam pattern with the auto-lamps online H4 HID kit with stock housing. The bulb has a shield to correct the beam pattern for halogen reflectors. As long as you aim your light correctly and with the correct beam pattern I think you can get away without the high beam. I now how Audi A6 hid projectors retrofitted to TYC projector housing and the beam pattern is much wider and is more useable. http://home.attbi.com/~evenq1/RetroFit/StockBeam.htm

 
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Anyone has a picture of a D2S(?) bulb (the other kind of HID bulb?) with glare shield? Because I really don't know how they look like. If you can put arrow to the glare shield for the picture if its not obvious would be nice. TIA

 
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This is the D2R bulb


And this is the D2S bulb


But you can see that the D2R bulb has a little bit of shielding on it... but it also takes away from the Lumens (lumens = light output) D2R bulbs have 2800 Lumens, and the D2S bulbs have 3200 lumens. ALso... the galre shield for the D2S buls is a kind of "adapter" to make it optically aligned for H4 housings, or for whatever model bulb you use.

 
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wow, that's an excellent illustration. Thanks Hefe. Do they have both D2R and D2S bulb for all the bulb models? Because I heard sometimes only D2R bulb is available. From what I see from the picture, the D2R is just like the D2S bulb with the shielding inside the light bulb, but you[Hefe] made a previous statement about the D2R from the HID kit doesn't have shielding...can you explain a bit about that? Also where is the reflector suppose to come from? (ie. buy it? from headlight/projector housing? from kit?) Because it seems there are 2 different kind of reflectors so the headlamp housing provides seems to be either one or the other. Hehe, ALSO what light range is suppose to best? ( this seems to in debate a lot, please backup with reason)
Sorry for all the question, I kind of new to HIDs but really interested in puting one in my projector. TIA