Oh yeah!
I just finished up installing upgraded headlights on my wife's '90 Talon. I only have three words here, "That daylight's sweet!"
She was very appreciative.
Daylight it is too, compared to even the "upgraded" Sylvania 4666CB sealed beam units I had in there. I went with some H4 "sealed beam" conversion units from JC Whitney (part #88ZX9846B) with 80W100 H4 bulbs. I had her test drive it earlier so we could check the new headlight's aim for her and also test out if oncoming traffic was blinded by them. We drove around for quite awhile and not one person blinked, yet it is phenominally better vision wise, brightness wise and the high beams are Hella bad... There is basically a "cut-off line" of light below and darkness above making aiming very easy and very common sense.
With all new 12G wiring, new connections, H4 conversion pigtail connectors (customized for 12G wire by me,) two RY-88 blower relays($$) with dual 87 out terminals, the new light bulb housings, bulbs and what not, I spent about $150 or so. About the same as a kit I've seen on line for this. I got all of the relays, wire and new connections at my local Carquest.
The conversion headlamp unit that I ordered, is not a "perfect" replacement, but is extremely close in size. It is glass and metal not plastic. On a normal 1G headlamp, there are these bumps of glass on the corners of the backside of the bulb. This particular conversion unit has metal tabs in place of the glass ones and I had to tweak them to get a good fit. Not a problem and it rests snug in the "bulb ring clamp" that holds the bulbs in to a 1G's headlight housing. It is nice and firm and doesn't move around at all.
The real test will be in inclement weather which we'll get to test out in a day or two up here. I'm sure she'll say something (good or bad?) and I'll make sure to retest drive it in some snow/rain at night asap as well and update this thread with more info.
These lights rock thus far, I'll have them on my Talon asap. I'd highly recommend them if you drive in dark rural areas or if you just like to see at 90 MPH!
If you attempt this mod yourself on your 1G:
(The stock wire colors I mention were found on the '90 Talon.)
Run two new 12 gauge wires from the alternator's output terminal to your two new relay's terminal 30 and install a fused link in each new wire close to the alternator.
Use the stock red wire with a blue stripe to feed terminal 86 on both relays. This wire is your stock headlight feed, which we are now just using to power each relay trigger circuit.
Use the stock Red wire to trigger your High beam relay, by connecting it to terminal 85 on the relay for the high beam. **You have to wire relay terminal 85 in our cars up to the "down" side of the headlamp circuit! DSM's use the ground circuit to complete the headlamp circuit.** You can't just ground terminal 85 to the frame/body.
Use the stock Red w/white stripe wire to trigger your Low beam relay, by connecting it to terminal 85 on the relay for the Low beam.
Run a 12G wire from each of the two Low beam relay 87 terminals to each headlight's Lo beam connection. One to the passenger side headlight and one to the driver's side healight.
Run a 12G wire from each of your two Hi beam relay's 87 terminals to each headlight's Hi beam connection. Again, one to each headlight's backside.
Each headlight will also need a new 12G ground wire from the headlight to this nice and convenient bolt right behind each light.
The new H4 light connection looks like " l _ l ". Three prongs in the shape of a broken "U." Looking at it this way, from behind the bulb; the left side vertical standing prong is your Hi beam connection, the right side vertical standing prong is your Ground connection and the bottom horizontal laying prong is your Lo beam connection.
My two relays are behind the passenger side headlight and I used the passenger side headlight's stock headlight wiring (three wires) for the triggers and the grounds to the relays as outlined above. I now have two new 12g feed wires from the alternator to the relays, four new 12g wires to each headlight from the relays, and two new 12g ground wires one from each headlight to a ground.
Enjoy some light from your 1G at night! These in addition to the 55w foglights I already had on her Talon make driving it at night pure sweetness. Gotta do mine now.
I just finished up installing upgraded headlights on my wife's '90 Talon. I only have three words here, "That daylight's sweet!"
She was very appreciative.
Daylight it is too, compared to even the "upgraded" Sylvania 4666CB sealed beam units I had in there. I went with some H4 "sealed beam" conversion units from JC Whitney (part #88ZX9846B) with 80W100 H4 bulbs. I had her test drive it earlier so we could check the new headlight's aim for her and also test out if oncoming traffic was blinded by them. We drove around for quite awhile and not one person blinked, yet it is phenominally better vision wise, brightness wise and the high beams are Hella bad... There is basically a "cut-off line" of light below and darkness above making aiming very easy and very common sense.
With all new 12G wiring, new connections, H4 conversion pigtail connectors (customized for 12G wire by me,) two RY-88 blower relays($$) with dual 87 out terminals, the new light bulb housings, bulbs and what not, I spent about $150 or so. About the same as a kit I've seen on line for this. I got all of the relays, wire and new connections at my local Carquest.
The conversion headlamp unit that I ordered, is not a "perfect" replacement, but is extremely close in size. It is glass and metal not plastic. On a normal 1G headlamp, there are these bumps of glass on the corners of the backside of the bulb. This particular conversion unit has metal tabs in place of the glass ones and I had to tweak them to get a good fit. Not a problem and it rests snug in the "bulb ring clamp" that holds the bulbs in to a 1G's headlight housing. It is nice and firm and doesn't move around at all.
The real test will be in inclement weather which we'll get to test out in a day or two up here. I'm sure she'll say something (good or bad?) and I'll make sure to retest drive it in some snow/rain at night asap as well and update this thread with more info.
These lights rock thus far, I'll have them on my Talon asap. I'd highly recommend them if you drive in dark rural areas or if you just like to see at 90 MPH!
If you attempt this mod yourself on your 1G:
(The stock wire colors I mention were found on the '90 Talon.)
Run two new 12 gauge wires from the alternator's output terminal to your two new relay's terminal 30 and install a fused link in each new wire close to the alternator.
Use the stock red wire with a blue stripe to feed terminal 86 on both relays. This wire is your stock headlight feed, which we are now just using to power each relay trigger circuit.
Use the stock Red wire to trigger your High beam relay, by connecting it to terminal 85 on the relay for the high beam. **You have to wire relay terminal 85 in our cars up to the "down" side of the headlamp circuit! DSM's use the ground circuit to complete the headlamp circuit.** You can't just ground terminal 85 to the frame/body.
Use the stock Red w/white stripe wire to trigger your Low beam relay, by connecting it to terminal 85 on the relay for the Low beam.
Run a 12G wire from each of the two Low beam relay 87 terminals to each headlight's Lo beam connection. One to the passenger side headlight and one to the driver's side healight.
Run a 12G wire from each of your two Hi beam relay's 87 terminals to each headlight's Hi beam connection. Again, one to each headlight's backside.
Each headlight will also need a new 12G ground wire from the headlight to this nice and convenient bolt right behind each light.
The new H4 light connection looks like " l _ l ". Three prongs in the shape of a broken "U." Looking at it this way, from behind the bulb; the left side vertical standing prong is your Hi beam connection, the right side vertical standing prong is your Ground connection and the bottom horizontal laying prong is your Lo beam connection.
My two relays are behind the passenger side headlight and I used the passenger side headlight's stock headlight wiring (three wires) for the triggers and the grounds to the relays as outlined above. I now have two new 12g feed wires from the alternator to the relays, four new 12g wires to each headlight from the relays, and two new 12g ground wires one from each headlight to a ground.
Enjoy some light from your 1G at night! These in addition to the 55w foglights I already had on her Talon make driving it at night pure sweetness. Gotta do mine now.
