you go pass 6000k, you are losing brightness.
the color gets darker. and you won't see any better than your stock headlight bulbs.
i had 6500k, 8000k, and 12000k.
12000k you don't see anything. <--- it's like driving with your blinkers on.
8000k you don't gain any visuality
6000k you get some visuality with purplish color.
5000k is the best if you are only looking at the brightness. you will see everything on the road.
anything above 6000k is for the show only...

 

I installed the HID's tonight. Yes i took off the bumper w/o any damage etc, removed the oem headlight assembly and carefully popped in the hID bulbs.
i put everything back together and put new 20 amp fuses in the fusebox for the low-beam lights and fired her up.

Overall the HID's look good and look kinda like the S2000 HID's or even the BMW HID's. Now I just need to compare them to the OEM EVO HID's...

 

has anyone actually needed to install 20amp fuses or is this just something your doing based on experiences with another car that has nothing to do with the evo?

 

i didn't upgrade my fuses when i put in OEM housings w/ foglights in my Base 05 with D2S Hids. Fired up just fine.

 

i took off my bumper too but all i did was swap out the standard yellow bulbs with a set of $50 bulbs "bluezone 4200K" that are blue and the wattage is 55W are stock bulbs are i think 51W i hope 4W does'nt melt the plugs i don't think so right?

the blue bulbs are not as bright as the yellow one but its not that bad and its not yellow

 

great front bumper assembly instructions

 

I installed the 20 amp fuses based on past experiences with the HID kits i had on my 95 Integra GSR.

In addition i referred to the oEM owners manual and was able to see that HID equipped EVO's already use the 20 amp fuse, so I figured, what the heck, I'll upgrade to be on the safe side.

 

has anyone else just swaped out the bulbs?

and do you guys think i'll be alright with being 4 watts over stock bulbs?

 

Where did you end up mounting the ballasts?

 

i thought we had hid stock?

 

thats a good point than. guess i need to change out my fuse. i just installed my hid's tonight. i got a McCULLOCH kit off ebay for 285.00 shipped. they are the 6000k set. i am very impressed with them. i mounted my ballast on the back of the headlights where the foglight would be if i had fogs . it fit perfect with doublesided tape that came with the kit . soon as i figure out how to post a pic ill show you what i mean.

 

On the passenger side I mounted the ballast behind the oil cooler. I used zip ties to secure it to the back of the oil cooler.

on the driver side I secured it to some pump like looking device behind the front bumper. Its out of the engine bay so it should be cooler there


Its raining out now, I promise I will post pics of my HID's soon.

 

Humm, I could have mounted my ballasts there as well, but I wanted to keep it away from engine bay heat

 

is it easy hooking up the hid kit is there cutting and splicing or just plug and play?

and what do you guys think about me being over by 4 watts?know one else swaped out there bulbs?

 

Only the '03 Evos had HID stock...otherwise, it's part of the SSL package on 04+ Evo.