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I wonder how they look to on coming traffic-being old, my night vision sucks, esp with on coming traffic. Always looking for better lighting, those are pricey, be interesting to see how you like them.
I wonder how they look to on coming traffic-being old, my night vision sucks, esp with on coming traffic. Always looking for better lighting, those are pricey, be interesting to see how you like them.
I was very concerned about this as well. After installing mine, I did fiddle with the adjustment a bit, and so far nobody has has flashed their brights at me. There are some excellent videos about headlights. Here is a really good one that looks at the 7" lights"
The video above was made before Holley released their lights. Here is a recent video that shows the Holley against the JW Speaker headlights, which are also excellent, but have a distinct look that I don't find appealing on an old car:
I'm sold on LED's. I replaced the stock bulbs in my 04 Tahoe,and got a BUNCH of nicely focused bright white light.
LED's forever!
The Holley LED replacements were likely designed from the get-go to optimize the light source produced by diodes.
Not to tear John's thread apart, but the worst possible thing one can do (regardless of marketing hype) to oncoming traffic is replace the Halogen bulbs with LED-style bulbs- the lens and reflector inside our "old", filament-based, omnidirectional source headlights is NOT based upon a point source of light as LED lenses are; LED lenses/projectors are specifically designed for a point source of light. Thus when one replaces dealed-beam or halogen bulbs with LED style using the same housings, the light may appear to be "brighter" but what one really accomplished was a diffusion of the available light, thus blinding oncoming traffic. This also applies to HID.
As an analogy, remember when Mag-lite offered the "led upgrade" option on their flashlights? It sucked, because the reflector designed for a omni-directional filament did nothing but diffuse a LED.
Some people have added relays to the old lights, swear it makes them brighter, I never tried it.
I added some fancy lights, for a better name, and I experienced the brighter wider lighting, but less
focus, as you were explaining.
Some people have added relays to the old lights, swear it makes them brighter, I never tried it.
I added some fancy lights, for a better name, and I experienced the brighter wider lighting, but less
focus, as you were explaining.
I have a headlight relay upgrade and had brand new Sylvania halogens. The Holley headlights are a night and day difference.
Went on vac in Western MI with the family, local buddy is selling of his dad's 40 collection of parts. I don't plan to run race on these but I always wanted a set of 15x4 Cragar SS wheels.
08-02-2022, 11:47 PM
