NinjaofDoom
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posted July 31, 2008 12:38 PM
NICE!! That actually shows up pretty well in the daytime! I hope my blue ones show up that well! Thanks again! These pics will be invaluable for my install. 
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lowcel
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posted July 31, 2008 12:44 PM
A little tip for your install. After you remove your fairings there are two 10 mm bolts right behind and to the side of your gauges. Take those off, remove the mirrors, and take the black plastic piece off under the nose. That will allow you to remove the nose. After that just disconnect the lights and it will come right off.
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posted July 31, 2008 02:17 PM
lowcel you in the tampa area?
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posted July 31, 2008 03:08 PM
Butta4hc writes ' It would be nice if a company offered the headlight assembly pre-halo'd and tested, lol'
Ebay: advanced_automotive_concepts do preinstalled from what i read.
Not sure if i can put ebay numbers in this forum - 360073583125
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lowcel
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posted July 31, 2008 03:55 PM
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lowcel you in the tampa area?
I wish, unfortunately I'm in Charleston, WV.
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xtro
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posted July 31, 2008 04:09 PM
Here's what mine look like kinda ...
these pics do NOT do this justice .. some of the hardest things to take a pic of ...
They are 4x CCFL angel eyes .. 2x H.I.D. bulbs on lowbeam.
the CCFL are what I use for daytime driving ... the lines are VERY crisp and totally bright in full daylight... LED marker lights finish the completely white look..
I used the hazard switch to turn HID's on/off for night driving .. this is the absolutely brightest I've ever had in any vehicle so far .. something I'm going to apply to all my rides from now on .. too cheap to buy for the benefits .. should be standard ...
only issues in installation was using 2 balasts for the eyes at first let one seem dead .. I got 4 of them and added the other 2 for a 1 ring 1 ballast set-up and they are now brighter and all run without issue.. I now COULD run 8 as the ballasts are for 2 rings each .. thought I got 2 spares .. guess different voltages in different applications ..
I will now have to upgrade the high beams as they are piss yellow now ... but keeping incandescent as I need to allert slow movers of my inpending pass .. these things take a bit to spark a full glow ..
also .. I didn't get relays for the HID's and I plugedd then into the headlight wires .. making a switch for on/ooff out of hazzard switch .. but when I turn them on .. bike stalls .. every time ..
so I have to start them, then run the bike .. or if riding into dark I kill the bike at a convenient spot, let them fire .. and then restart and it wrks after that no worries .. anyone got an idea why if they are in the headlight circuit and no fuses blow .. why it kills the bike ?? once running .. it all works fine, I can even turn off then on again and runs fine ... as long as it was fired up recently ..
here's the pics .. remember .. rings are razor sharp lines .. not the glow the camera see's and the HID are just a must have ..
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xtro
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posted July 31, 2008 04:24 PM
got a good one from outside ...
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bigdtd
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posted July 31, 2008 04:44 PM
damn they look hot on both setups. i want the black light ones.....being a sixties kinda guy
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posted July 31, 2008 06:21 PM
Wow, they look f'in GREAT. Wish I had the time/cojones to do that to mine.
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NinjaofDoom
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posted July 31, 2008 06:39 PM
 Edited By: NinjaofDoom on 31 Jul 2008 19:41
Xtro - what brand are those halos? Those are BRIGHT, even in the daylight. Kinda what im going for.... I've already bought mine but its good to know for the future....
Mine just have Inverters (1 per 2 halos) and no ballasts... your halos have ballasts like the HIDs?
You saying if i buy 2 more inverters and run them 1 to 1 that they will be much brighter? If so im ordering tomorrow lol
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lowcel
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posted August 01, 2008 02:29 AM
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A little tip for your install. After you remove your fairings there are two 10 mm bolts right behind and to the side of your gauges. Take those off, remove the mirrors, and take the black plastic piece off under the nose. That will allow you to remove the nose. After that just disconnect the lights and it will come right off.
Oops, forgot there are also two phillips head screws holding the nose on, one behind each mirror.
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lowcel
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posted August 01, 2008 02:32 AM
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Xtro - what brand are those halos? Those are BRIGHT, even in the daylight. Kinda what im going for.... I've already bought mine but its good to know for the future....
Mine just have Inverters (1 per 2 halos) and no ballasts... your halos have ballasts like the HIDs?
You saying if i buy 2 more inverters and run them 1 to 1 that they will be much brighter? If so im ordering tomorrow lol
I didn't notice any difference when just running one light to an inverter. If you check out my first pictures where I just had three lights working the left two were running on one inverter and the one light on the right was on one inverter by it's self. I didn't notice any difference in the brightness.
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lowcel
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posted August 01, 2008 02:39 AM
Here's a few night shots.
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xtro
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posted August 01, 2008 07:30 AM
nice look lowcel !! hard to get pics of eh ??
I guess they might be inverters for the halo's and not really ballasts . ...
I found about 10% more light output with 1 to 1 inverter to ring ... not major .. but 10 % plus the fact one went out on the dual made me do it .. so the inverters are working less and making more light ... they are my daytime running lights they are that bright ...
I've had many a vehicle with 3-4 dudes all craning thier necks to se me behind them ... so they are making a splash that way ...
also .. I have dual inverters .. each does 2 rings . but I was sent 4 .. able to run 8 rings. but once I had the one go out .. I swtched invertes from left to right and it went out on that side .. so I added the 2 spares and there is loads of room for all 4 inverters, 2 HID balasts, and the PCIII under the left cover with 14 miles of wire..
the right side is loaded with alarm and other gadgets .. under the lights I have a 135DB air horn .. loud pipes are nothing like a friggin air horn to make a cager ump from his skin ... lol ..
as for the HID .. you can see from my messed garage wall .. white to yellow ... intensity to blind .. DO NOT look right into the lense after adding them...
oh .. the rings are CCFL and NOT LED ... LED will not work for anything more than night-time bling .. and with headlights I think they get a bit lost ...
CCFL (compact cold flourenscent lights) use no energy really and have this clear and bright light...
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NinjaofDoom
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posted August 01, 2008 07:33 AM
Nice! Take some daytime pics! Its guaranteed they'll show up at night. Im curious how they survive the daylight. Im guessing b/c mine are blue and yours are red that they wont show up as well as his white ones. But it also appears that his go almost full circle like the actual BMW ones, so im curious who makes them.
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lowcel
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posted August 01, 2008 10:02 AM
xtro - forgot to mention, very nice looking bike. I really like the way those white halo's look.
NinjaofDoom - his look like the same halo's that I have from lite-eyes. He just has his rotated a little more so the plastics cover the gap in the light a little better. As for the daytime pictures, I have some on the first page and xtro has some a couple of posts up from here.
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lowcel
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posted August 01, 2008 12:16 PM
Edited By: lowcel on 1 Aug 2008 13:18
Check it out, after I sent my pics to lite-eyes they put together a kit for the ZX14.
ZX14 halo's.
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NinjaofDoom
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posted August 01, 2008 01:44 PM
I saw that last night. Thats awesome! Take alot of guesswork out of which size to get. I owe ya 
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xtro
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posted August 01, 2008 02:14 PM
I'll have to look for the place I got them from .. really the cheapest CCFL ones I could find .. same for the HID but I think they were from star-rotors ..
so far they rock and REALLY turn heads .. lots of them ... no-one knows what the bike is now ... some kinda europee-in exotic race cruiser maybe .. lol ..
and yah .. I really spend the most time making them have the gaps where the bike was going to cover anyhow ... it gives it the eye-brow appearence .. I was really hoping to only have to ever go into the lights once .. but now I can do it in half the time ...
72MM were my size .. white 6000K as best I could all the way .. do NOT stare directly into them .. HID's I mean ..
Dubious !!! .. yo yo bro !!! ..
call ya for next week ... need a few more 14's here ... also found a chick riding an '07 ... never saw that comin ...
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posted August 02, 2008 08:53 AM
Xtro,
That would be great.
I already bought the orange ccfl's, but held off on the Hids, to dig up info first.
It would be great to meet ya, and see what ya dun with yours.
I feel like I am going in 3 directions at once with the move and the job, and then breaking some new ground with the 14 in our territory, and everywhere, so if something was easy for a change that would be nice !
Do to my build, I have had to customize the tripple clamps, wheel spacers, tail section, wire harness, fuel system and the list goes on.... LOL
Should be well worth the effort when done though.
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NinjaofDoom
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posted August 12, 2008 01:32 PM
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also .. I didn't get relays for the HID's and I plugedd then into the headlight wires .. making a switch for on/ooff out of hazzard switch .. but when I turn them on .. bike stalls .. every time ..
so I have to start them, then run the bike .. or if riding into dark I kill the bike at a convenient spot, let them fire .. and then restart and it wrks after that no worries .. anyone got an idea why if they are in the headlight circuit and no fuses blow .. why it kills the bike ?? once running .. it all works fine, I can even turn off then on again and runs fine ... as long as it was fired up recently ..
Did you figure out what was killing your bike? Firing them with the highs on maybe? So it was trying to light all 4 at once? Im also gonna try to use the halos as my DRL. But im not gonna do it if it'll stall my bike on the road.
TIA
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xtro
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posted August 13, 2008 08:00 AM
actually .. they go on now without any problems .. been trying them during the day from time to time and it wirks perfectly ...
my only guess is that the bulbs drew too much off the hop, and now that they have a few hours of on-time maybe they are worked in ??
watever the cause .. they run properly and no worries now ,... or a wire got the proper bump .. lol ..
live CAN be good .. .
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NinjaofDoom
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posted August 13, 2008 08:27 AM
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actually .. they go on now without any problems .. been trying them during the day from time to time and it wirks perfectly ...
my only guess is that the bulbs drew too much off the hop, and now that they have a few hours of on-time maybe they are worked in ??
watever the cause .. they run properly and no worries now ,... or a wire got the proper bump .. lol ..
live CAN be good .. .
Good to hear! I just got my bike back last night with HIDs and blue halos. They are beautiful. I just hope no cop pulls me over for the blue rings. I doubt it but meh. Ill post pics prolly tomorrow.
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Ninja_Knight
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posted August 14, 2008 12:11 PM
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Good to hear! I just got my bike back last night with HIDs and blue halos. They are beautiful. I just hope no cop pulls me over for the blue rings. I doubt it but meh. Ill post pics prolly tomorrow.
That is an excellent point! Cops around here jump on every blue light they see! A cop pulled over a friend of mine because he had those little blue windhield washer lights on his pick-up truck, and forced him to remove them on site. Now come on! What idiot in their right mind could confuse those for police lights?
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NinjaofDoom
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posted August 14, 2008 12:41 PM
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Good to hear! I just got my bike back last night with HIDs and blue halos. They are beautiful. I just hope no cop pulls me over for the blue rings. I doubt it but meh. Ill post pics prolly tomorrow.
That is an excellent point! Cops around here jump on every blue light they see! A cop pulled over a friend of mine because he had those little blue windhield washer lights on his pick-up truck, and forced him to remove them on site. Now come on! What idiot in their right mind could confuse those for police lights?
Ive passed a few police without issue. The big is so beastly they almost look like they belong there. But on a good note, they are on their own seperate switch so i can flick them off at a moments notice.
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