Just wanted to let you know that I have decided to go full speed ahead with an HID conversion for the T/A WITHOUT using projectors.

Using Delphi ballasts with Phillips bulbs that I have modified to hopefully provide a good beam pattern in a stock 4703 housing. I removed the old bulb from the Sylvania sealed beam headlight with a torch and a razor blade (gives you access to a screw that simply pops the bulb itself loose). Then using a tapered drill bit, slowly made the hole large enough for the HID bulb to sit in.

While bench testing, I used a ball peen hammer to gently mod the housing in order to get the bulb 100% straight inside there. Then I used aluminum to create covers for the bulbs in sections that were causing glare due to the beam pattern in the lens. A little epoxy to glue it in and RTV around the edges.

Haven't gotten it wired in the car yet...but if the first one works, I will do a full write up on it with pictures. Total cost? about 330 bucks with everything.

 

u think all of this would work on a lt1?

 

Eh....not really since you have both beams in one lens. You "could" do it...but you would lose your brights

 

I'm thinking if you use a Bi-Xenon H4 HID kit in a 4x6 aftermarket housing that accepts H4 you should be able to do a 93-97 T/A LT1. I would think the low beam / high beam would still work ?

 

Not sure how well that would work with the beam pattern of aftermarket setups. Might be worth a try, but I'm happy with good low beams (they're brighter than my old highs)

 

I'm tempted to try the H4 bi-xenon setup.