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The JDM foglights have a carbon fiber bezel and an amber lens. The USDM ones have an ABS bezel and a clear lens. The lenses are interchangable. (clear / carbon fiber, etc)
In japan, our headlights are similar to the ITR. The h1 bulb serves as a driving light, which is on all the time, while the H4 bulb is supposed to control high & low beam. Most people wire the H1 bulbs to be the highbeam, and H4 to the low beam, but you must be careful as to which wire you splice in... you don't want to run the high beam filiment on the H4 bulb, as it will be too bright and the light pattern will be messed up. For a TRUE JDM look, you would want to wire the H1 bulbs to a switch (my H1 bulbs are amber) and then use a relay that will switch the power from one contact on the H4 to the other when you switch over to Highbeams. (like a car that uses H4 bulbs normally, that only has one bulb per headlighbt) you do NOT want to run both filiments at once, because the housing will overheat & either burn the bulb out or discolor the reflector - hence the relay.
HID's would not be a good idea on JDM headlights. They would blind oncoming traffic, and you would be quickly pulled over. because cars drive on the left side of the road in japan, their headlight pattern is reversed from ours... the light pattern angles upward on the left side, whereas if you aim a USDM car equipped with HIDs at a wall, you will notice the light pattern angles up to the right. Driving on the right side of the road with JDM headlights and HID's will cause the sharp 'cut-off' point that you notice with HID's to be angled up into on coming traffics face.
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Last edited by JDM Lude; 12-18-2001 at 01:00 PM.
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