Given that these sealed beam kit has high beam in there as well.. I wonder if it is possible to take out the reflector, HID bulb, high beam unit and stick it into our H4 headlight housing and get it to work..
Re: Anyone tried to use parts from sylvania X6024/X6054 in H4? it is only $299
October 19 2003, 2:10 PM
Guess its possible, just consider that electrically, mechanically and beamwise, its does not have same quality as Hella/Valeo/Bosch projector units in combination with Philips/Hella ballast&bulb.
Re: Re: Anyone tried to use parts from sylvania X6024/X6054 in H4? it is only $299
October 19 2003, 2:36 PM
Still, the best method to this date that I know about for H4, is to just use Casper's adapters and put them into an E-code light fixture, and then run a good quality highbeam driving light to give you your long distance extended beam for above cutoff. Those Sylvania lights just have a horrible beam pattern with horrible spread, and they don't light up near as good as E-code pattern, and even if you took out the bulbs from them, they wont fit into H4 without serious mods, since Sylvania made those bulbs to be proprietary to their fixtures. They are selling for $299 to be competitive, but of all the several people over the years posting in these forums who've tried their systems, every one of them was disappointed in the output of the sylvania 'sealed beam replacement' kits. They ARE a step above regular halogen sealed beams, so most people who try them will think they were worth it to them, until they pull up next to an OEM xenon equipped vehicle, and that's usually the point in which they realize that they've been short-changed. I'm still glad I went with e-code H4 as opposed to Sylvania kit, because, believe me, I considered it too. But at the time, they were like $799 back then (good thing), because that was what kept me from buying them. Anyways, the E-code H4 conversion was cheaper, and turned out to be way better.
Re: Re: Re: Anyone tried to use parts from sylvania X6024/X6054 in H4? it is only $299
October 19 2003, 5:28 PM
You'll probably have to swap to the Xenarc's lens too.
Josch do my eyes decieve me or do your e-codes have an additional bulb socket? City light perhaps?
I wonder if the opening is large enough to fit say a H1 to create a halogen highbeam. It won't be as bright as your Eagle Eye HIDs though
Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone tried to use parts from sylvania X6024/X6054 in H4? it is only $299
October 19 2003, 7:38 PM
Yeah, your right, those are for city lights. And they MAY be able to work to stuff a highbeam into (I've never tried that), but if you DID try, you would have to aim the H1 capsule way way upward, so the filament of it was close to the bottom of the H4 shield. Since you couldn't get it as high as the original H4 highbeam filament was, then you MAY be able to pull it out towards the front off the car to compensate the focal point to work ok possibly? A guy would just have to experiment to see if you could find a filament position that would provide some type of usable beam. Might be hard to do, because the hole for the citylight is really close toward the bottom of the fixture. I DO have another fixture here not in current use (7" round E-code w/ city light), maybe I'll have to try this to see if it would work in real life? Perhaps with that kind of upward angle to the capsule, you might want to use an H3 bulb with transverse filament to keep more of the filament lined up with focal point. That would also make the beam a little wider I would think
This message has been edited by JustHitADeereWithHID on Oct 19, 2003 8:05 PM