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Originally Posted by phunk
to the guy who put the high beam HIR into the lowbeam housing... will that be OK for oncoming drivers if properly aimed? is that even an upgrade? i thought the wattage was what effects the output, and that the part number is what defines its housing shape/style.... so is putting the high beam in the low beam part of the housing going to be any different anyway?
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I'm coming into this thread a bit late, but...
The first question you have to answer is this: Do you really care if the beam pattern is legal or not?
If that matters to you (and it seems to NOT matter to way too many tuners), then stay with the stock bulbs. I guarantee you that if you put a brighter bulb into the stock reflector, you will have an illegal beam pattern, and will throw way too much light into the eyes of oncoming drivers. If the reflector was not designed for the bulb that you want to use, there is no "proper" way to aim the head light. It takes an optical engineer and expensive, specialized measuring equipment to design a legal head light. You're not going to get a legal head light by tinkering in your garage.