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Old 01-13-2013, 01:56 PM
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There you go, the fogs look green in pics for some reason, but they're white in person.
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Originally Posted by MMWS6
I figured they would look good. Ordered a set of 8k fogs last night, should have them today. Off topic, but you guys are costing me a lot of money! hahahaha Having a blast working on this car though, so worth every penny to me!
Lol this forum does that to you, you start reading stories about these powerful cars, and seeing this pics, and before you know it.... I have over 1200 worth of parts sitting in the hatch ready to go in.

Also have my eyes in a 402 build. Lol
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Installed fogs yesterday morning, went out last night to a nice dark flat road and aimed them... holy **** what a difference it makes to street signs! I can see them 5 miles down the road now! hhahaaha
And one further, got my LCA's and Panhard bar last week as well from Founders, have to put those in this weekend! Woo Hoo!!!
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Nice, I love my adj. Panhard and my lca's. mine are Bmr, but they're basically the same. I did buy relocation brackets from founders. Nice pieces.
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Originally Posted by MMWS6
Installed fogs yesterday morning, went out last night to a nice dark flat road and aimed them... holy **** what a difference it makes to street signs! I can see them 5 miles down the road now! hhahaaha
And one further, got my LCA's and Panhard bar last week as well from Founders, have to put those in this weekend! Woo Hoo!!!
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If you're lighting up street signs that far away then think of what you're doing to people's eyes in oncoming traffic
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Actually they are aimed really low. I have to pull myself up out of my seat to see the "hot spot" on the road. I think that because they sit so far back in the front fascia that there is a lot of light emitting from the entire housing. I sure can see street signs down the road. The glass in the paint on those things really reflect the light back from the HID's! Also, road marking that I could barely see before just pop like a ***** now.
I am going to get the low/hi combo from the older trucks from LMC (*I think they are called) to do them all.
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They are pretty nice, I still need to aim my fogs and my headlights as they are down way too low. But for the money they look great and perform great, no flashes from other drivers.
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Here's mine. I just turned them on but they match the switchbacks perfectly. They are 5k from DDM with the LCM housings. Until I do the retrofit they'll stay like that. Had an issue getting the highs to work so just lows and fogs for now.

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I think that looks really sharp!
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Good...I need new lights. lol So I've got the LMC part numbers for the housings, and the part numbers for the HID bulbs. What about fog lights? What's the 880 mod? What do I need for it? I'm looking to do all 6 at the same time.
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Originally Posted by 02SS:ZEUS
Good...I need new lights. lol So I've got the LMC part numbers for the housings, and the part numbers for the HID bulbs. What about fog lights? What's the 880 mod? What do I need for it? I'm looking to do all 6 at the same time.
880 is just the bulb size. Buy the hid kit in 880 for the fogs, it's a direct plug and play.
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Originally Posted by Sail Hatan
880 is just the bulb size. Buy the hid kit in 880 for the fogs, it's a direct plug and play.
Sweet, thanks. One last question. I ordered both high and low beams from LMC Trucks, and I went to order the HID's from DDM Tuning....turns out, I know nothing about HID's. lol First, wattage...I'm thinking 35w for the fog lights, and 55w for the low and highs? Color....I'm thinking 8000k should work. Finally, would I need any of the extras, like the harness, adapter cables, or mounting brackets?
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Originally Posted by 02SS:ZEUS
Sweet, thanks. One last question. I ordered both high and low beams from LMC Trucks, and I went to order the HID's from DDM Tuning....turns out, I know nothing about HID's. lol First, wattage...I'm thinking 35w for the fog lights, and 55w for the low and highs? Color....I'm thinking 8000k should work. Finally, would I need any of the extras, like the harness, adapter cables, or mounting brackets?
Do 35w all around. 55 is too high and could welt the lmc housings. I did. 5k for the headlights, which is brighest, and 6k for the fogs. And I didn't order any of the brackets, I just used double sides tape and suck the ballasts out of sight.
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When mine come in friday I'm going to do a detailed write up again since people are getting more and more curious about this. I'll go from removing pins to get the fogs to wiring everything in hopefully.
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yea, thatd be good. theres alot of things to make it easier, that if I explained wouldnt make much sense without pics. Fogs are easy. Just pop the little plastic clips the pull the bumper down, un bolt fogs, unplug bulbs. put in hids, and balast, and plug it into the existing harness. secure balasts.

the headlights try and show how you can mount everything under the headlight itself. makes for a cleaner install.
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Originally Posted by Sail Hatan
Do 35w all around. 55 is too high and could welt the lmc housings. I did. 5k for the headlights, which is brighest, and 6k for the fogs. And I didn't order any of the brackets, I just used double sides tape and suck the ballasts out of sight.
I did 35w for the fogs and they are dam bright still, they will do just fine
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Yep, just got my lmc housings today, high quality pieces. I'm really impressed.
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Really nice, I was suprised by the quality. But definitely buy 35w. Mine are so bright.
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For splicing the headlight harness in, did you use the factory connector and just stick the pins in, solder and heat shrink, or use butt connectors
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I used butt connectors, and electrical tape. I wanted to solder but couldn't finds gun. Oh well.


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