I'm willing to upgrade the lights on my evo IX mr.

Would like to get 6000k or 8000k on highbeams and 3400k (or 12000k) for fogs. Is it too much dangerous with the stock headlight? I think there is no limits on the fogs here... So hesitating between the yellow or bluish style!

Thx!

 

Anything over 5k is 1) stupid looking 2) puts out less light and makes visibility worse

2500k-3400k for foglights is best (i prefer 3k)

4300k - 5000k is best for headlights

there's a reason all BMW / merc / lexus / etc use 4300k HID's

 

I also don't recommend using HIDs for high beams. Because of the slight delay in the lighting, and high beams generally needing to be an on demand option, I'd stick to regular halogens for them.

 

Make sure they are adjusted so they are not blinding opposing drivers. The HID bulb scatters without the projector lens.

 

oh high beams

HID's don't belong in fog lights or high beams, only halogens (unless you have bi-xenon projectors, which evo's dont)

stick with stock halogen bulbs in high beams, and 2500k-3400k 55W halogens in the fog lights

 

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Blue lights are dangerous to the driver. The human eye is not very sensitive to blue. In other words, you can't see.

 

blue and purple lights are cool though..... :/

 

My fx35 uses hids for its high beams. There is no delay in lighting. The fact that the glare would be incredibly bad for oncoming traffic is an issue though

 

Those are Oem hids that use a reflector. The hi beams aren't a separate hid bulb which takes a few seconds to reach full brightness, ie not a good idea for something you typically just flick a few times to get people to move over.

 

+1 fx is bixenon it a flap in the projector that raises and lowers for hi beams

 

this. hence my statement:

HID's don't belong in fog lights or high beams, only halogens (unless you have bi-xenon projectors, which evo's dont)

 

Yep. People also have a generally poor understanding of how the human eye works at night.

You can more than likely achieve a FAR greater level of night vision by turning down your instrument lights rather than looking for brighter headlights.

Driving of course is different than flying in that more often you're looking a light right in the eye. But over the course of 30 or so minutes of avoiding light, your night vision will become on the order of 100x more sensitive. Lots of pilots taxi with one eye to help save the other for better night vision. Harder to do in a car though.

Anyway. Turn down your instrument lights. You'll be surprised at how dim you can make them and still have them be functional. And humans pick up motion better at night, so keep your eyes constantly sweeping back and forth, and you'll see much better than focusing on a light beam a half mile down the road.

 

Thanks for keeping this classy and considering other drivers on the road. I hate being blinded by "ricers".

 

Also, the light emitted by most backyard hid kits ends up causing so much glare that the driver actually ends up seeing worse than stock.

I don't know whether it works on Evos, but I had good results wiring in relays into stock halogen lights.