extraducksauce
01-17-2006, 03:03 AM
(1) Does anyone have the beam pattern photo from the driver's side of their JDM (not EDM) projectors?
(2) I've heard some complaints about teh JDM beam pattern, are they corrected with a "plug and play" adapter? If so, what in the heck do they do?
(3) If you have aftermarket hids installed, where did you buy them and how much?
Francis
nhluhr
01-17-2006, 07:25 AM
(1) Does anyone have the beam pattern photo from the driver's side of their JDM (not EDM) projectors?
(2) I've heard some complaints about teh JDM beam pattern, are they corrected with a "plug and play" adapter? If so, what in the heck do they do?
(3) If you have aftermarket hids installed, where did you buy them and how much?
Francis
There are photos out there, but basically just imagine a euro spec projector pattern but flipped left to right. You will be blinding everybody oncoming and not throwing the extra light into the trees on your side of the road like a euro pattern would do so you won't see bambi about to jump out.
The way to correct the pattern would be to put in the baffle plate from an EDM housing, but as far as I know, they are not available separately so you might as well just buy the EDM to start with.
Mulder
01-17-2006, 08:08 AM
The procedure to fix the beam pattern is to open up the lights, and grind down the deflection plates inside the projectors to make the pattern flat and eliminate the rise to the left. It is easier to just get a set of EDM lights which have the correct LHD pattern to begin with (rises to the right), but they are harder to find and more $.
Due to the beam pattern, adding HIDs to JDMs without modifying them first is a bad idea, as is installing the OEM JDM HIDs without modification.
The "plug and play" adapters are harness connectors that allow you to plug the lights into your car without cutting the factory wiring, and have nothing to do with the beam pattern.