@blink, something to think about is the fact that the kit you're looking at is just the bulbs and ballasts, and that doesn't include the projector.

I have gone this route before, but it is def. the wrong way to go as it just vomits light in front of you and the beam is very erratic. I have it on one of my bikes because the people around here are terrible and I've been merged into more times than I've hit the starter on the bike. Search for using HID bulbs in stock housing and you'll see just a couple of examples of the disasters/stories that ensue.

what you'd want to do is get in contact with TRS (The retrofit Source [and no, I'm not affiliated but Matt was freaking awesome when I did my conversion]) and slap one of their projectors in there. The H4 kit on the projectors make it easy enough for a monkey to do it and it's really, really, REALLY cheap to do. (once again, I am not affiliated with TRS at all but I've been raving about them to anyone who needs a conversion because they're quite awesome) if not ebay has some nice g35 ballasts up that I like a lot, that or the nissan z series are freaking awesome paired with a nice denso ballast its just that it makes it a little more work as you need to figure out how to bold everything up.

Theres a bunch of write ups on doing the conversion and they can provide far more information than I can. The one thing I did differently was use the morimoto mini h4s and they fit in there really nice.

The difference between the two (stock vs. projector HID) is the difference between knowing what you're going to hit .5 seconds before you do, and being able to avoid it in the first place.

This was the first mod I started off with despite only doing commuting night riding, well that and CCT. But I highly recommend it regardless of any other mods you're planning on doing.

AND AS WELL, just keeps getting better, if you do it in the stock housing and decide to go to streetfighter, you can pull that badboy outta there lickedy-split and have a good looking conversion on your streetfighter!

watch out for bulb temperature too, 3k is pretty yellow, 6k provides for the greatest light output, I like 8k just because it makes it blue enough to make people see the difference and get their attention, but still has a really high output of LM.

Here again, just my .02!


@7moore7

I was thinking the same thing; I also worked with Matt at TRS (oddly enough I typed to superblink before realizing you had replied too!) but I didn't ask him about the safety of the projectors. They're glass, and yes, cheap enough, so they should be pretty durable but I dunno. I've been reasoning it like this;

Think about wearing a helmet while riding vs driving in a car. Bug splats on your visor and you're missing a 5'x5' region of your vision because of the proximity to your face, bug splats on your car and you don't even know it until you wash your windows again and notice there's bugs everywhere, again has to do with the proximity.
I'm relating this to the the topic because the glass projector (which inverts the light source to show on the ground) has a much closer proximity to the bulb vs. splatting on the stock housing.

Might just be paranoia, but I have an odd obsession with really bright lights

I think that I'm going to just mount my projector on my 'ceptor with no plastics/protection because it's kept me at my computer too long looking for a solution!