I did a bad thing to a poor set of headlights :O

[Paradox]

well I was thinking about putting some different headlights in my car because I never liked sealed beams and while at the junkyard I saw the perfect parts. Now my car has projectors and maybe HIDs soon. I have not painted the extra set of trim and headlight shrouds to match yet or wired it up but I have one side ready.

[jasongiard]

huge improvement. you should post pics of the completed thing.

[Paradox]

it will be a while before I have a finished product

[jasongiard]

what did you get the lights out of

[Paradox]

Wonder if anyone would be able to guess what they came off of? hehe

[Creepy Cruiser]

BMW.

[Hearse_Guy]

lol

[EternalCombustion]

I'll give you a heads up if you haven't already thought about it. If you are using your existing headlight switch the extra amps that these lights will pull will melt down your headlight switch. I put a set of after market H4 conversion headlights in my '72 and melted the switch out of mine. So after I bought a new switch, I wired relays in so that the switch only activates the relays which doesn't pull much amps at all, and the main power for the lights comes straight from the battery on a heavier gauge wire.

Then shortly after I got that set up, I bought HID conversion kits for the H4s and now I have HID. Now when the high beams are on all four lights I get daylight. I can attract mosquitoes from the next county.

[Paradox]

The sealed beam lights pull the same wattage as the H4 or 9006 or 9005 unless you got a higher wattage one. I will eventually have HIDs which draw even less current. And yep they are from a BMW Congrats on knowing your cars hehe.

[Creepy Cruiser]

What do I win? What do I win?, Hahaha

[Paradox]

You win the chance to come help with my hearse? LOL

[jasongiard]

Im going to have to use those in my blazer

[Paradox]

they have entire new sealed beam units for cheap on ebay for your blazer which use H4 bulbs

[jasongiard]

I will check it out, usually I just look at hearse stuff on there.

[EternalCombustion]

The sealed beam lights pull the same wattage as the H4 or 9006 or 9005 unless you got a higher wattage one. I will eventually have HIDs which draw even less current. And yep they are from a BMW Congrats on knowing your cars hehe.

To be honest, I'm not sure what the wattage was on the H4 that I was using. They were the sylvania silverstars. The setup worked for awhile but it was overheating my switch and I ended up without headlights one night. I put in a new switch and that was when i noticed the new switch getting pretty hot so I added the relays and fixed it. It was then later that I added the HID conversions. And you are correct the HID pull less current because they use a ballast, but since I already had the relays wired I left them in place.