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Jblausey
Posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 03:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Cityxslicker, what brackets are you using for those axillary lights?
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Ripdog28
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 12:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just ordered http://www.vvme.com/product/detail-20023.html
Got the 6000 H7
Hope to get them in and installed by the coming weekend. $66 and some change total

(Message edited by Ripdog28 on September 22, 2008)

(Message edited by Ripdog28 on September 22, 2008)
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Mikef5000
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 04:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Anyone have a picture of these lights without the little rubber/plastic covers of the back of the bulbs?

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Mikef5000
Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 03:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

but you would also need two high beam housings

What's the difference in the housings, and if you buy a second high beam, is it easily bolted on? Won't the holes be reversed? Or are they symetrical?
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Mikef5000
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 05:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

the housings look pretty similar to me?!


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Tarshi
Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 07:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I did same products.
It is super bright!




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Glitch
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 08:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

the housings look pretty similar to me?!

Mike take a closer look.
The bulbs inside are aimed differently.
It's not an optical illusion that one of the bulbs is "looking" at you, and the other not.

Oh yeah!
Glad to hear you're going to make Buelltoberfest!
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Mikef5000
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 12:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The bulbs inside are aimed differently.
It's not an optical illusion that one of the bulbs is "looking" at you, and the other not.


Well I'll be!

And see you at Buelltoberfest! I'll be the one sleeping on the picnick table LOL!
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 01:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It was a hardware anglebar find modded up by a fellow ULY driver. Actually most of the mods are done in that garage. The light set is probably the next mod. Money and time need to mesh.
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Swordsman
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 01:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

GAAAAAHH!
Dammit Tarshi, I'm BLIIIIND!

~SM
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Mikef5000
Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 05:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Tarshi, I'm all for HID's but those appear to have NO upper cutoff at all?! Please say I'm wrong.

But thanks for showing me that two ballasts will fit nicely behind the S fairing!
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Tarshi
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 07:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Mike, I cutoff like your way.
The two ballasts put into fairing but I had to remove horn because no room for 2 ballasts.
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Mikef5000
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 07:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Mike, I cutoff like your way.



What color temperature are yours? I'm guessing 6000k?
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Midknyte
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 07:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

those things are hurting my eyes thru the internets!
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Tarshi
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 08:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It is 6000k.
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Hogs
Posted on Friday, September 26, 2008 - 09:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Anyone installing these on the R`s??
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Mikef5000
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 08:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

A few have done it. Also, HID's run cooler than the OEM halogen, so they may be better for the notorious reflector problems the R's have.
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Mr2shim
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 09:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

www.starrotors.com/bulbs/

For those that want a kit for about 100 bucks.

Where I got my HID kit, still works just as good as it did the day I installed it.

(Message edited by mr2shim on September 27, 2008)
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Mikef5000
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 09:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The VVME kit posted above in this thread, and has a huge thread about it over in the Big Bad and Dirty section, runs about $65 shipped... but doesn't come with the small ballasts like that kit might.

I have the VVME kit in my car, and I installed one in my buddies car. They work great so far.

I have a kit waiting at home for when I pick up my XB.
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Court
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I got the VME in 4300K
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

put the horn in the off set right hand side like the Cop Uly does. Hell get the big megaphone and air blast attached to it to really wake up traffic. Then you have all that room under the screen for the ballasts.
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Mikef5000
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I got the VME in 4300K

That's what I have in my car, what I installed in a buddies car, and what I have sitting in my bedroom waiting for my XB.

It is pure white... with just barely ever so slight hint of blue. No yellow whatsoever, but not BLUE like the ones posted above. I love them.
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Mikef5000
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 03:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

put the horn in the off set right hand side like the Cop Uly does.

How did you mount it? Have a picture?
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Court
Posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 - 06:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The bracket for the siren mount is part number L2246.1AU but it may be a bit overly conspicuous. I'll try to post photos if I get a chance.

However with the Strebel horn behind the windscreen . . nothing, including the EZ-Pass will fit. This may required some thought.
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Ripdog28
Posted on Monday, September 29, 2008 - 11:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Got the VVME installed on low beam for now. don't want to remove my horn so will get some zip- ties for mounting it between the forks. cant wait till a dark ride home.
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Chasten
Posted on Wednesday, October 01, 2008 - 10:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

got the VVME kit, too...
although, i went ahead and tried something different: ordered the 3000K (foglight yellow) bulbs and upgraded to the slim ballasts. only installed the low beam, though... i'm pretty amazed.

during the warm-up phase, the light is a crazy vibrant, slimer green. i will probably not even install the high beam.

here's a pair of vids on the warm-up
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