This was much nicer as I could now read street signs and no longer blinded oncoming cars, but the light output still left a lot to be desired. The H1 bulb pretty much sucks, and there are much newer/better developed projectors out there than the OEM Silvia low-beams.Īt one point last summer I took the projector headlights apart and fashioned new shields for the low-beam projectors that converted them to a LHD beam pattern. Anyone who's driven a car with ANY Silvia lights (dual, tri, or bricks) knows that the headlights are lousy. The other, equally important reason for the conversion is light output. Primarily, the issue is the difference between right-hand-drive beam pattern and left-hand-drive beam pattern this has been covered ad nauseum here and elsewhere so I won't get into it. I looked into HID conversions, 'drop-in' HID setups, and wasn't really keen on any of them. The low beams on any of them are barely worth mentioning. The driving lights on the halogens were great but of course blinded anyone going the other way. My intercooler and radiator are hungry, after all I've long been frustrated by the lousy headlights though, and tried two different kinds, the tri-projectors and the 'brick' dual halogens. I love the look of the Silvia front-end conversion on my car, and it's nice that it's lighter than the popup front and lets in more air to boot. There are a number of reasons for doing this conversion. Disclaimer: if you screw up your own car using this writeup, I claim no responsibility of any kind.

Hid projector vs halogen projector