Re: HID Fog lights, are these to small?
If you hook up the hid kit directly (plug n play) to the headlight switch and stock wiring, only one light will fire up (usually the passenger side light) or they wont fire at all. You're also puttting excess strain on your headlight switch and you will kill it quickly. The fix for that is a harness made out of 14-16ga. wire. The power comes directly from the battery and the headlight switch turns the lights on and of through a relay. I have the yellow-top optima battery and i used 14ga. wire and never had a problem. Both fire up every time. Best of all, you can convert it all back to stock in about 30 minutes and requires no cutting of your factory harnesses.
H3C is the definite answer to the fog lights for HID. Its a clone of the oem bulbs. I just cant find them in yellow so for now Im just using yellow colored h3 halogen bulbs. I havent installed a bi-xenon hi/low kit yet, but I'm going to soon and I reccomend it. In order to not blind oncoming traffic, my lights are aimed a little lower than stock. I have a single beam kit, so the high beams kill all the lights, and since the lights are aimed lower, its hard to see at night on back roads (like... woods, dirt roads lol) I know that with the bixenon (dual beam) kit the HID arc is shifted upward when the high beams are activated, thus fixing the problem. To see an example of my HID lights, look at this youtube video, at the end...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emT4n8RcMtU I know they look blinding, but that's because I set my shutter speed to pick up the LED lights I was filming.
So in short... To put HID on a Sy or Ty (Syclones have foggies right?)
1) Get a conversion kit to convert Sealed beam lamps to H4 capsules. You can get some pretty nice ones on ebay believe it or not... try typing in "7x6 h4" Go with GLASS, not plastic.
2) Once you have them switched out, you're already getting improved lighting by using the h4 halogen bulbs, and they're easier to find vs buying sealed beam lamps. You can stop here, or move on to HID.
3) Find yourself an HID kit for H4 sized bulbs. I reccomend getting a Bi-Xenon (High/Low) kit. Make yourself a relay harness to power your HID's from the battery (ill link you guys up when I find the instructions) and make sure you zip tie all your connections out of the way of all moving parts.
4) For Foglights, order an HID kit for H3C (NOT JUST H3, the C is VERY IMPORTANT!) Make another harness, same as the other kit for the headlights.
5) Aim your lights!!! I seriously hate all of you out there who put your kit on and dont aim your lights down, and blind the shit out of me. Here's how I did it... A) Grab a phillips head screwdriver. B) Find a buddy with a similar heighted vehicle with oem lighting, and park at the same distance from a wall. C) Match your height to theirs, and then down just a little bit extra. D) Park your car, get out of it and take a litle walk out in front, stand as if you were in a car in the oncoming lane. If you have to squint, something's wrong. That's It! have fun.
Other personal Reccomendations. BUY A 35W KIT! That's what OEM HID's are, the real deal, the stuff that comes on your Acuras, Beamers, Mercedes, Etc. The 50-55W kit will just blind the hell out of everyone. And make everyone want to key your car and kill you. Why was the kit invented then? Because of idiots who didnt aim their lights right and couldnt see anything because of it.. or for those ricers who put the Hid's behind smoked black lenses (smart?) or foggy plastic lenses that are 100 years old.... or for Legitimate Pro Off Road Use...take your pick.
Stay within the range of 4500K (oem) and 8,000K (ice blue) Any higher, and you run risking a ticket. 10,000K is too deep a blue for law enforcement (at least in my area) to tolerate, and anything higher than that is pink or purple. (btw it looks kinda stupid to rice out your limited production sy or ty with color like that anyway right?) For Fog lights, same deal, but you can step down to 2,000K or similar for yellow and it should be ok. I only personally like yellow because It helps me see a litttle better in foggy conditions, and it looks good on my wht/wht truck, and compliments my headlights well. (im starting to rethink this though because all the little ricer hondas and acuras in my area are doing this, and I like to be different)
Another Tidbit, Look at your HID bulbs. I've seen two different kinds of single beam H4's. One is just a glass stick and kinda sucks, the other has a crescent shaped metal shield that covers the bottom half of the bulb. You want this one, since it reflects the light up to the top of the lens, which projects it down to the ground, and not up into your face.
If I think of anything else, i'll put it in here, the motherload of Sy/Ty HID information. Any other questions?
. Just kidding, do have the larger wiring upgrade for these.