aznek

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Hi I was wondering if anyone had the Mcculloch hid kit. If so does it work ok and how long have u had it?

Or what other brand of hid kit do you have on your car and how long have you had it?

Thanks everyone

x002x

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mccullochs come highly recommended. i personally bought the apexcones cuz it was offered to me at a price i couldn't refuse and its the same as the xtec kits. so why not.

ucbsti

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I would go with the HIDexpert.com kits. OEM denso ballasts (same as all lexus/toyota/landrovers), and OEM phillips bulbs

CreoWRX

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I've had a Mcculloch kit (4600K) installed for about a year in my Legacy, without any problems. But, as x002x can attest to, I don't drive the car often.

Here's my cutoff and the color of the 4600K bulbs (~25' back);


-Mike-

ucbsti

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thats a nice cut off for a halogen projector

IIRC, the HID projectors out of a RX330 (non-afs) will directly bolt into the legacy/06 wrx lights

boostfed

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i had mccullochs' in my mr2 but i took them off because of the glare, i woudl recommend them if you put them in projectors, but as of now i have Kaixens' in my suby and love them, i get a nice clean cut off and its nice and bright.

Lurk

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I say stick with the Philips HID kits. Yeah, they cost a little bit more but in the end they are superior to the McCulloch ones which were known have problems with the ballasts over time. Like within 1 year.

STi-owns-evo

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as far as I know, the name on the HID kit means little more than a name for people to say they had good or bad experiences with them. Since HID kits aren't legal in the US, the name brand kits like Philips, Denso, etc are all basically piece parts put together. The companies which sell these get replacement parts from the OE cars and remodify them to work with other applications.

I've had terrible experiences with ProXenon (please save yourself a headache and don't even consider them), but there's a place in Milpitas who sells a kit I've been using for almost 1 year. What I like about them being so close, is that if anything breaks, there's no real turn-around time since all you need to do is call 1 hour in advance and they'll have the part ready. So far, only thing that's failed me with these are the radio shack relays which I use for a homemade relay setup.

drew935

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I have OEM S2K hids on my 240sx. D2s Osram bulbs 4300k with big OEM ballasts. Now I'm looking at getting 07 350z bixenon bulbs since I have no high beams at the moment. But you guys won't have that problem. I like rocking OEM HIDs because of the ballast.

gqchynaboy

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What are bixenon bulbs??? Do you mean installing bixenon projectors

drew935

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bixenon bulbs are D2S/R HID bulbs that can do low/high beam in one bulb. Like a stock H4 non-HID bulb. But it's HID. '06/'07 350Z have them in there. There is a shield that shifts over to when you need the high beams on.

ucbsti

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Thats why I reccomend the HIDexpert.com kit. There is no special name on it, its just the OE denso/phillips combination. Despite being "piece parts", its grade-A quality stuff. If you go and tear apart a lexus HID light, you will find a Denso ballast and a Phillips bulb. If its good enough for lexus, its good enough for me

I hope so

And if you have S2k projectors right now, I'd stick with those over the 350z units.

ucbsti

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Hmm..thats just the projector then. Its just your standard HID bulb, and the shield flips out of the way to let more light out.

The projector is what the bulb plugs into is whats used to gather and send out the light from the HID bulb. The cut off shield is there to prevent blinding people, it moves to allow more light out like a high beam bulb (thus blinding people)

joltdudeuc

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www.f1spec.com

100% waterproof. I saw them dunk in a fish tank and run it for 4 hours at HIN. I was pretty impressed.

-Gagan

aznek

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Thanks for the replies everyone