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Old 12-17-2010, 09:11 AM
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bought the housings from LMC Truck, and the 8ks from DM Tuning.

Cost about 160 to do it all, but its all PLUG AND PLAY. no splicing, no crimping, nothing. you may WANT to do a bit of wire splicing and what not for durabillity, but you do not have to. I will wrap the connections in electrical tape when i get a moment. If anyone has any questions let me know.

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Housings: lmctruck.com/icatalog/cd/full.aspx?Page=65
low beams 036-0302 - high beams 036-0303

HIDS: ddmtuning.com/Products/DDM-HID-Kit-Slim-Ballast-35W-or-55W
Bulb type is 9006 for lows and 9005 for highs - 880 for fogs

again, its all PLUG AND PLAY.





Yes i know, i still need to do some fine tuning at the angle of the lights, but with these housings the light doesn't flare up and blind people.


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Nice up-grade! So you must like the Blue color of the 8000's? I went 5 on mine. Hard to believe the change in light out put!
Old 12-17-2010, 01:09 PM
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I went 6k in the HID's...hi/low beam...I was dissapointed that the lows were halogen so I am replacing my set with a true hi/lo HID set up
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thx for the compliments. i love the 8k blue tint look. they look green in the second set of pics, but they arnt, its nice and blue. looks purty!
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oh and when the fog lights are on, and you are close to a wall, (only the foglights can be on) the batman symbol appears on the wall. kinda badass lol
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the truck housing is the same as the stock ta housing
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No offense, those look terrible. 6k is about as blue as I would go, because you start loosing depth visibility and brightness as you move up the kelvin scale. And why do they look green?
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they just look green cause of my phone. the first picture in my OP shows the blueness. they look great in person...
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Originally Posted by killa in progress
the truck housing is the same as the stock ta housing
not true, the stock housings are sealed, and the truck housings are not sealed making bulb replacement ALOT easier, and cheaper
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Thanks for the links, I've been looking (but really not that hard) for a way to get around the sealed beam thing. Those look great gonna have to look in to this...
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ive been reading into doing this mod. you said its completely plug and play as well as unsealed beam. Besides the housings which seem easy to track down, what is needed with the ddm kit? There seems to be extra options and I didn't know if the "HID harness, error eliminator, or adaptor cables" are needed to make this work well.

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Just the kit, I have 5k ddm and lmt housings, its super blue, I wish it was more white like my Lexus, but I'll live. The relay kit isn't bad because hid takes alot of power at start up, but only use 35 or 55 watts during use.

Oh I got 35 watt lows and love visibility. I recommend 55 watt hid for high beams. The 55s are blinding so only using them on high beam is smart. Hid's don't like to be flashed, and higher wattage kits wash the color out so you may want to get a slightly higher Kelvin high beam if you do different wattage lows and highs, to help them match
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yes its all plug and play. kinda, there are little prongs that yo have to push into the existing bulb harness, but like i said, its all plug it in and go. most ppl will cut the exiting connector off the cars harness and crimp it to the prongs that the kit comes with. I, will just use electrical tape on them lol

EDIT: no you dont need any adaptions or error kits, works every time.
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Your Driver side parking light is out by the way..


They look good..
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will this work for the camaro what housings would i use?
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Originally Posted by Reckless95z
will this work for the camaro what housings would i use?
What year is your car, a 95? You should be able to just use the HID lights, no aftermarket housings needed.
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no they are sealed beam lights also. atleast the 93 I had was you have to replace the entire headlight housing just like the T/A if I recall though the housings in a camaro are thinner than a T/A but im not sure of the exact mesurments
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so you would need housings also but you might be able to find the sizes you need on that site
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i just installed 5k hids. they are more blue than i like. im not for sure if they might have sent me the wrong ones or not. anyone have any pics of 5ks that i can compare mine to?


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