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There's something especially gross about having Muskrat emblems on your Thunderbird. I would look for some unadorned centre caps soon.
well if you got factory replacement headlights or even wet sand and polish what you have it will help and do the headlight mod on em as well where you add a few relays to let the lights run at a higher wattage. That would improve light output dramatically.
Are you saying they're weathered/faded? If so, fix this first, before you do anything with any HID's or other aftermarket bulbs. Yellowed lenses and/or faded reflectors will prevent light from hitting the ground no matter what the source of that light is.
Protouring442's got a point too - HID's in a housing not designed for them will only serve to blind other drivers...
You might not want to hear this, but you'll get the best visibility with 4300K HIDs, which is what I put in my aftermarket fog lights. The websites that sell them tend to show a yellowish image, but I can testify that they're actually a very pure white light (for comparison, Sylvania Silverstar bulbs are 4000K).
White light excites the rods in your eyes as well as each of the cones. High- temperature, bluish light doesn't excite the red and green cones as well. They probably don't excite the blue cones any better than lower-temperature lights do, but even if they did, the loss in stimulation of the red and green cones probably outweighs the benefit. Likewise, rod stimulation peaks along the blue wavelengths, but what's really important about it is where the break-even point is between biasing stimulation toward blue cones and and increasing rod stimulation vs. the falloff of red and green stimulation. If nothing else, I would expect your vision to suffer as you wold be less able to distinguish color with high-temp lights. A neurologist would have to explain how that might affect your ability to gauge motion and distance, but I would expect it to be less than optimal.
I'm not a biologist -- I'm a physicist-turned-software engineer, but I know how to use Google :D
Looks like they've got a good price.
HIDs are going to work better w/ the factory wiring since they draw less than incandescents - except maybe at startup. Not sure about that time, got a meter to measure draw?
I sold the 03' Cobra privately...bought a 04' Sport Trac and the Fox body as a project. My other car is a 05' Focus.
Cars are cars...I've owned about 25 over the years and usually get bored once I'm done with them. The Cobra was a hell of a car but approaching the 500 HP mark was kinda the limit for me. Felt like I was done with her and didn't want to take that platform to another level. Wanted a change and something I could work on instead of just sitting there in the garage.
Not sure what the ultimate goal of my 86' Fox is but I haven't ruled out throwing some serious power into it and making it a drag car?
My first new car was a 88 LX 5.0 hatch with 3.08's and a 5 spd...it ran a best of 14.4 if I remember correctly? All it had was a K&N. Great cars...gave me the car bug for sure!!!
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Later...Dave