In the past, I have always run silverstars in all of my cars, and have been very pleased.

Recently with my new vehicle, I chose to try a 8500k Blue/white bulbs for Eurodesigns

They were 50 dollars for headlights and fogs so you can see they are cheaper than silverstars.

Have never tried PIAA bulbs.

Just wondering what some of you light guru's thought was brighter?

I believe the silverstars are 4000k?

Thanks

 

I ran the Silverstars for a while, and they were probably the brightest of all the lights that I had tried.

 

I also have silverstars and they look good and function great.

 

eurodezigns are brighter. I have seen them compared to the silverstars in person and they are much brighter and have a bluer tint to them. We tested them on JLaw's car on this board, you can PM him to confirm

 

I've got them too. I like 'em.

 

All of those pale in comparison to E-code headlights and Osram Silverstar H4 bulbs. But that is more like $500. And no, Osram Silverstars are VERY different from the Silverstars you can get at Autozone.

E-code headlights and good bulbs are also much better than any of the HID kits you see sold around here. Nobody realizes that the reflector pattern is destroyed when you move the filament or arc placement in the housing.

If you actually want real information instead of this 5000K+ bullshit, look no further than here:

www.danielsternlighting.com

I have Silverstars currently, but the only reason they look brighter is because they use a very slight tint on the bulb to cut the "yellow" that actually lets you see farther. In order to overcome the decrease in light output, they overdrive the bulb significantly. On Sylvania's website, they list the life-expectancy of all their bulbs, and the Silverstars are the worst BY FAR. I only got them as a temporary fix for a larger problem, and probably shouldn't have even spent the money.

For the record, the best easily available 9000 series bulbs are either the Sylvania Xtravision or the GE Nighthawk. Neither of those have filters of any kind and will work with your existing headlight housing to give a beam of light the way the engineers designed it to. This will improve your visability, not blind other drivers, and have none of that bullshit riceboy blue tint.

 

these are my pia fogs:

 

do you have any pics of the fogs with the lights off

 

here you go:

 

http://www.brian.xmgfree.com/videos/brian's%20car/revandtakeoff.mpeg

Click that link to see a video showing a little bit of the silverstars. I only have the silverstars in the headlights and not the foglights.

 

yall damn camaros that can easily upgrade the headlights. damn yall.

 

i have had sylvania blue stars, silver stars, and eurodezigns. I am currently using the eurodezigns because they give off more light but i think appearance wise the silverstars look the best.

 

What is the difference... 6000K vs 8500K

 

Those numbers are measures of "color temperature". HID naturally produces light at about 4000K. By increasing the color temperature (by changing the amount of current) you can remove some of the wavelengths of light being emitted. As a result the light will look whiter, and then bluer. The downside is you actually lose visibility because yellower light not only penetrates farther, but carries more light back to your eyes.

Most factory HID systems are in the 5-6000K range. When one of the original developers of HID was asked why overdrive the natural color temperature, he said that the manufacturers wanted people to be able to tell HID headlights from others easily, so they "added" the blue to the lights so people would have a constant reminder of the $2k they spent on their fancy headlights.

HID is an awesome technology. Currently it is very hard to find anyone who uses it properly.

 

From what I have read, its more like 4-5000K range (typically 4200K or 4300K and the reflector/housing also affect the color of the light).

 

I've run both silver stars and Piaa"s on previous vehicles as well as e-bay Eurodesigns.Piaa's seemed to be the brightest(and most expensive) but well worth it.

 

Are those bulbs available for the 98-02 Firebirds?

 

Ive got 8000k HIDs and I love them, much brighter than any lights I have seen and I love the blue color!

 

The bulbs are available for our cars the modle number is an 9006 with the appropriate prefix in front of it depending on the brand. The problem I am having is finding some one that stocks them. GE's site sells only to dealers so you have to buy like 24 of them at a time.

 

I'm running Silverstars now and like them, when one blows, I am going to go with the Eurodesigns (blue).