<VV> halogen lights

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

Yep, my Fiero has the Cibies, with relays, and 100/145s. Very nice! My 
Corvair had Cibie E codes, for a while I had a pair of halogen sealed 
beam driving lights. Now, mind you, they were 250 watt aircraft landing 
lamps... <G> It pays to know people at the airport service hangar... 
heh heh heh... Yes, a 6 gage cable to the front, a Ford starter 
solenoid to turn them on, and a 72 amp 10 SI alternator. Still, had to 
interlock the headlights to turn off when I fired these up, as the 
current wasn't there to run everything, at least not at the rated 
voltage...

Yes, this is how I avoided the Dark Side...


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris & Bill Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: JVHRoberts at aol.com
Cc: jciampi at embarqmail.com; Sethracer at aol.com; 
virtualvairs at corvair.org; airvair at earthlink.net
Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 4:12 pm
Subject: Re: <VV> halogen lights















And the point here is, that with decent lighting, there is no such
thing as driving at night.  Or just buy a BMW X-5 with the optional
head light upgrade -- seriously, some *very* good headlights on them.



I won't relate the details of my recent night time crash of a newly
acquired Fiero (Darn!), other than to say it was maybe partly my fault
for not having gotten the lighting upgraded and aimed on it before hand.



I, too, normally have upgraded lighting on everything 
we actually drive
-- and I have some CiBie H-4's in a temporarily retired Fiero, so I
have no *good* excuses for the above incident.  I've been using
lighting upgrades since the late 1960's, before H4's and halogens --
big round incandescent bulbs ...    then along came Corvairs and 5.5
inch  CiBie H1 quads -- wow!



Bill Strickland



JVHRoberts at aol.com wrote:









Admittedly, I am nutz about this stuff. All of our cars have
upgraded lighting. All of them. ...


 


Agreed, if you don't drive at night, what's the point?
Otherwise, I like to light 'em up like a rally car!














In a message dated 1/7/2009 1:45:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jciampi at embarqmail.com writes:


I am just going to stick to the sealed-beam Halogens for now.
I don't drive the car much at night anyway.



Jay Ciampi