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Doctor Throckenstein !!!
Sorry no pics of this install. But just wanted to let you all know that I was able to hack the old less than adequate BIXENON HIDs into my AE.
I had the BIXENONS in my '04. I liked them. Low beams were fantastic. High beams sucked, but the low beams were almost as bright as the halogen high beams anyway. I was going to use these lights as removed from my bike for another application, but decided in the mean time to see if I could put them in my AE. No Problemo.
I had to cut some of the wire protective sleeving and retape some of the wires, but I used the wiring harness as it came without cutting wires or changing connectors.
Now this old stuff is not as sophisticated at the HIDs you can now buy on eBay for a couple bills. The setup I used has separate relays, ignitors, ballasts and of course extra wires for the light's servo mechanism. Thats a lot of stuff going up front. Man, what a bulky killer octopuss mess of wires this thing is... yikes!
Each light has a control box that has two wires coming out, and one wire going back to the ballast. Those two control boxes were stuffed in the nose of the front fairing, right underneath the reflector housings. Everything else went in the cavern under the front of the tank. Nice.
Yeh, yeh, yeh, it'll get hot and the circuitry may end up as toast with it being right over the engine head. Whatever. The lights were just gathering dust, so if they burn out, who gives a whoop. They are obsolete and fodder for the cannon. And in the mean time, they look **** HOT! Yes, I will carry a pair of halogens, just in case.
Those of you have been watching the HID threads know that there are Fuegos in the works (I want a pair!) and WC is beta testing FJR specific HID's. Both of those HID setups will be far better than getting the old style Bixenon, or even the other mechanical HID that actually moves the light source. Neither of these style HIDs work well to replace the OEM headlights for low and HIGH BEAMs in the FJR reflector. HIDs in general in the FJR are great on low, but suck on high. So it's probably a good idea to wait for a few weeks/months until Our Boys get the other HID setups ready for consumption.
But if you have a 2006+, and an old set of Bixenon (or other) HIDs and don't mind the sucky high beams (or you are mounting PHIDS for high beams, etc.), you CAN stuff the complete wiring harness under the 2nd gen tank. The big assed plug connectors are even easy to get through the left frame opening under the tank. Man, this was easier than I thought! :yahoo:
I had the BIXENONS in my '04. I liked them. Low beams were fantastic. High beams sucked, but the low beams were almost as bright as the halogen high beams anyway. I was going to use these lights as removed from my bike for another application, but decided in the mean time to see if I could put them in my AE. No Problemo.
I had to cut some of the wire protective sleeving and retape some of the wires, but I used the wiring harness as it came without cutting wires or changing connectors.
Now this old stuff is not as sophisticated at the HIDs you can now buy on eBay for a couple bills. The setup I used has separate relays, ignitors, ballasts and of course extra wires for the light's servo mechanism. Thats a lot of stuff going up front. Man, what a bulky killer octopuss mess of wires this thing is... yikes!
Each light has a control box that has two wires coming out, and one wire going back to the ballast. Those two control boxes were stuffed in the nose of the front fairing, right underneath the reflector housings. Everything else went in the cavern under the front of the tank. Nice.
Yeh, yeh, yeh, it'll get hot and the circuitry may end up as toast with it being right over the engine head. Whatever. The lights were just gathering dust, so if they burn out, who gives a whoop. They are obsolete and fodder for the cannon. And in the mean time, they look **** HOT! Yes, I will carry a pair of halogens, just in case.
Those of you have been watching the HID threads know that there are Fuegos in the works (I want a pair!) and WC is beta testing FJR specific HID's. Both of those HID setups will be far better than getting the old style Bixenon, or even the other mechanical HID that actually moves the light source. Neither of these style HIDs work well to replace the OEM headlights for low and HIGH BEAMs in the FJR reflector. HIDs in general in the FJR are great on low, but suck on high. So it's probably a good idea to wait for a few weeks/months until Our Boys get the other HID setups ready for consumption.
But if you have a 2006+, and an old set of Bixenon (or other) HIDs and don't mind the sucky high beams (or you are mounting PHIDS for high beams, etc.), you CAN stuff the complete wiring harness under the 2nd gen tank. The big assed plug connectors are even easy to get through the left frame opening under the tank. Man, this was easier than I thought! :yahoo:
