blklgt05 Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Night Pics http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8325_zpsbopa14yy.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8328_zpsfqgplp01.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8327_zpsygerjq4b.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8330_zpsnoivwsrp.jpg OEM 13' Headlights Morimoto Retro-Quik Legacy Kit - Morimoto Mini H1 6.0 Bi-Xenon Projectors - Legacy Brackets & Hardware - Amber Reflector Delete Morimoto 3Five HID Kit [DSP Ballasts, 35w, H1 XB35 4300K Bulbs +HD Relay] (low beams) OEM 10' Fog Light Kit Morimoto 3Five HID kit [XB35 Ballast, 35w, H11A XB 3000K Bulbs +HD Relay] (fog lights) vLED DRL/High Beams [5000K, 10 LEDs, 9005] PIAA Ion Yellow Front & Side Parking Lights vLED V3 Triton x2 sets [Amber] (front & rear signals, non-switchback type) - 7440 Base Adapters x2 vLED Platinum Brake Lights x4 [Red, 21 LED, 7443] - 6OHm Load Resistor x1 - Quad Brake Light Mod vLED Reverse Lights [5000K, 15 LED, 921] mod journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fedaykin Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Retrofit was easy eh? How quickly do those Morimoto ballasts fire up the bulbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blklgt05 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Retrofit was easy eh? How quickly do those Morimoto ballasts fire up the bulbs? Pretty quick, both low and fogs use morimoto's new HD relay, they are massive. I just got new fog ballast after last one died (lasted 5 years), this new morimoto one is their XB series, comes with these nice external igniters. I got new bulbs with it and it uses a new connection that makes it easy to connect and disconnect. DS PS side colors are the same, pretty happy with it. mod journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zee199969 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Did you disconnect your DRL resistor or are you using the vLEDs as both DRL and High Beam? Curious to know if you are getting any flicker if you are indeed using them in DRL mode My "Build" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzoman10 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 What year is this Legacy? Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellesedil Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 What year is this Legacy? Sent from my LGLS990 using Tapatalk Blklgt05's profile indicates it is a 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blklgt05 Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Did you disconnect your DRL resistor or are you using the vLEDs as both DRL and High Beam? Curious to know if you are getting any flicker if you are indeed using them in DRL mode I use it as both DRL and high, I got it mainly to be used as drl since I have bi-xenon and my highs can use this type of LED tower bulb. Looks really good as drl, the way it lights up the reflectors. Also no flicker issues, vLEDs is good stuff, all the vLEDs I use are still original, they seem to have really good heat dissipation. mod journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellesedil Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Could we extrapolate from your experience that we can just plug the vLEDs in an otherwise stock headlight assembly and have both DRLs and highbeams without issues? Because right now, different people are saying different things on that front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zee199969 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I forget which set I had from vLEDs. But they did flicker like crazy after a few days and I had to return em. vLEDs did give me a full refund and did not charge me a restocking fee though. My "Build" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fedaykin Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Pretty quick, both low and fogs use morimoto's new HD relay, they are massive. Not to be a dick, but how quick? My F3 Faststart's fire up Philips D2S bulbs OEM-like. So 1-3 seconds I get most of the light output, full temp (colour changes from blueish white to 4300K white) by 10 seconds. The last Morimoto set I had (3-4 years a go) took the usual 30 seconds to warm up (like the Korean-made Kaixen ones). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blklgt05 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Not to be a dick, but how quick? My F3 Faststart's fire up Philips D2S bulbs OEM-like. So 1-3 seconds I get most of the light output, full temp (colour changes from blueish white to 4300K white) by 10 seconds. The last Morimoto set I had (3-4 years a go) took the usual 30 seconds to warm up (like the Korean-made Kaixen ones). I have a newer morimoto set and an older one (2 years) [H11A fog 3000k / H1 low beam 4300k] and both got to the correctly temperature under 15 seconds (14.96). Ideally you'd want to retrofit projectors such as S2K (ap1), TSX, RX330 OE type with D2S from Philips or Osram...etc. Morimoto has been pretty good for me and I use their new harness for both low and high. The color of the bulbs are very identical and that matters more to me than anything else. mod journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fedaykin Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Good to hear they have made improvements to the start times. Their build quality were excellent. On a side note, the Philips 85122 takes some effort to fire up, most cheap ballasts struggle and eventually die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blklgt05 Posted October 9, 2015 Author Share Posted October 9, 2015 Finally got around to install the [ame=http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PSX55SQ]lamin-x yellow fog light films.[/ame] It is very thick and I had trouble getting the edges to lay flat, but I wanted to cover the entire fog lens to get that even color. Can't see the edges of the films at all because once you re-install the fogs, the fog trim covers it completely. I'm running morimoto's latest XB35 H11A 3000K kit with external igniters. The reason for doing this is to get a perfect JDM yellow color. The film itself only filters colors that aren't yellow, so when the light source itself is 3000K (or near 3000K), colors that are within the spectrum doesn't get filtered out and therefore does not decrease the intensity. This is why cars with 4300K or 5000K hids don't look as yellow when you put this same film over it. http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8592_zpspa3czlzc.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8590_zpsmcqbnjqb.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8591_zpsaev0kjso.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8593_zpsrqh6q92w.jpg http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8596_zpseuhxtjn7.jpg This is the perfect yellow that I wanted compared with just 3000K bulbs without film... http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s253/blklgt05/IMG_8325_zpsbopa14yy.jpg mod journal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk6933 Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Very nice Gary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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