Hid Kit for a 1994 Acura Integra?

Ward

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I have a '94 Integra and I am buying an HID Kit, 8000k 35w, due to I am night blind. Do I need a special relay kit also?
 
Have fun getting tickets, because there isn't one single aftermarket "HID kit" that is DOT legal.

Here's what I wrote to someone else.
"Those "HID Conversion Kits" that you see for sale for $150 or so are not legal. NHTSA (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has, up to the writing of my source, had tested 24 different manufacturer of said conversion kits, and all were deemed to be illegal and resulted in recalls or termination of sales. Basically, your stock halogen headlights are designed to essentially throw light everywhere for a wide range of vision of lower light. When you put a bulb designed to have a very focused beam pattern and a very sharp cutoff on it to avoid glare, into this housing, you get a very bright light that scatters everywhere, including into the eyes of oncoming traffic. It is this high level of glare that is why they are illegal. To do it right, you can do a true retrofit, if you want to go through the trouble, but that would require finding a perfectly clear lens, and lots of cutting and epoxy to fit HID projectors or reflectors into that housing. This can give the "angel eye" look depending on which projectors you use, but this is an expensive modification which typically costs about $450-500 per lens, or $900-1000 for a pair of headlights. If it were me, I'd just get an H4/9004 conversion housings and some higher wattage bulbs, and rewire the harness with thicker gauge wiring for the increased watt bulbs. Other than that, your only other option is to get some Honda factory HID lenses and wiring harness."


HID lighting will not help your night blind problem. If anything, it will make it worse. Why? Because unlike your stock headlights which gradually fade from bright into the darkness, HID's, or real ones anyways, have a sharp cutoff, so there's no transition. It just goes from very bright, to complete dark. This is not good for your problem.
 
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