Little too expensive for me! Would have to come down half in price to consider it.
I found this on motortrend yesterday. Aside from the bar across the center of the headlamps these look like they could be a good upgrade over our standard lighting. However, they are quite pricey.
Bright Eyes for your Retro Ride?Peterson 701C LED replacement lamps. - Motor Trend Blog
Little too expensive for me! Would have to come down half in price to consider it.
I have been very pleased with H4 lights and relays, and I will stay very pleased until the price comes down a lot on LED headlights.
Note: To use LEDs in the S30 you WILL need to use relays or do extensive re-wiring. A couple of years ago, someone started a thread on installing LED headlights. He could not understand why they did not work. The LED headlights expect the 12VDC positive to come from the high/low beam switch with a common ground. In the Z, the headlight circuit is wired to provide a common 12VDC positive to the headlight and switches the ground between the high and low beams. Since the D in LED stands for diode, it means that current can only flow in one direction.
73 240Z
74 260Z
Blue's collection of tech tips - A great place to look for answers
XenonS30 -The cheap source for FSMs
Georgia Z Club
Fiddling with Z Cars - Z car tips & tricks and pictures of my car-loving life.
Steve's CARtography - Just car pictures.
Honestly, I can't complain about my headlights either. I have some cheapie sealed beams and a homeade relay harness.
Too bad running LED's would require even more work to the current wiring. That kind of defeats the point of taking some load off of the original wiring.
As long as your relays switch the positive and not the negative, you wouldn't need to change that. Give the choice between adding relays or re-wiring, I would choose relays.
73 240Z
74 260Z
Blue's collection of tech tips - A great place to look for answers
XenonS30 -The cheap source for FSMs
Georgia Z Club
Fiddling with Z Cars - Z car tips & tricks and pictures of my car-loving life.
Steve's CARtography - Just car pictures.
I'm with SteveJ.
Dave Irwin made a wiring harness for my stock 280 Z a few years ago and the headlights work great.
76 280Z
By the way, I found the old thread I was referring to: http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/e...headlamps.html
73 240Z
74 260Z
Blue's collection of tech tips - A great place to look for answers
XenonS30 -The cheap source for FSMs
Georgia Z Club
Fiddling with Z Cars - Z car tips & tricks and pictures of my car-loving life.
Steve's CARtography - Just car pictures.
In 1970 the Cibie Biode's were about #120.00 a pair. I guess adjusted for inflation - $500.00 to $600.00 today is about right.
FWIW,
Carl B.
73 240Z
74 260Z
Blue's collection of tech tips - A great place to look for answers
XenonS30 -The cheap source for FSMs
Georgia Z Club
Fiddling with Z Cars - Z car tips & tricks and pictures of my car-loving life.
Steve's CARtography - Just car pictures.
Dave also made me a PL harness and HL harness upgrade. They work perfect.
Hi,
Here's an alternative to sealed beams/LED's that really works well: Wire in Dave's HL harness and purchase a pair of Cibie H4's (google: Daniel Stern)
Go with the bulbs DS recommends. I did and I'm very pleased as the illumination is as good as the xenons I've owned.
Cheers,
George
Original Registration and Warranty Card
Original owner of: HLS3018859 (Jan./71) ZCOOR Member # 178
'Storms Never Last'
Yep I saw them a few days ago. The stock cj headlights are so weak. Wish I could try the LED before I buy.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks