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Here's three pics:

http://www.nitroware.net/~tony/xenon1.jpg

http://www.nitroware.net/~tony/xenon2.jpg

http://www.nitroware.net/~tony/xenon3.jpg

Bright as fark... one to two second start time.

Guy who fitted them is a legend.

I'm happy that they're very stock looking.

T.

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There is another thread in here explaining why the higher the temp (K) number doesn't always better. Between 4-6000K should be used for the street, anything above that would only create a blue ray that gives fatique to eye, gives a too abrupt cut off transition from the illuminated area, and can be dazzling other road users - thus very very illegal.

to retro fit a car with xenons that did not come standard with xenons requires an autoleveling function and an autocleaning function.

I can't think of the ADR's off the top off my head, but I have an ADR CD here, and it goes into it in detail.

jtir: I don't know if any included autolevelling oem style.

to fit series 3 xenons costs quite a bit from what I'm aware. easiest way is to get a conversion kit, such as tonygtst and I have done.

Costs range from $300 (second hand) to $1800 (philips new release) and fitting is fairly easy.

4,000K to 5,000K will give off a some what reddish light it's below normal daylight kelvin.

6,500K is daylight ie the sun.

Above that is going to be more bluer, blue light travels the further than any other light spectrum so you could expect the bluer lights to go further but you'd also end up with a blue light so a blue light might not always be the best when driving.

An example would be the sky, it's not really blue it has no colour the only reason why it looks blue is that blue travels the best through the ozone layer, and doesn't get cut as much as the other colour spectrums.

S3 GT-R xenons are very expensive, rare and don't fit the GTS.

Many stock cars do no have autolevel/clean and they have much more annoying blue ting'ing than good AM kits.

I'd be surprised if I'm pull over for this.

T.

the s3 GTR headlight WILL fit S1 gts-t, but i think they worth at least 2k per pair

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