A big set of dual, 8-inch round HID off-road lamps would be awesome, but who's got $1,200 laying around these days? For many of us, the dream of owning HID lamps is just that; a thought we wake up from the following day. If you can't get your hands on a friend's credit card, we suggest looking into this alternative, HID conversion headlamp kits. For the money, you won't get this much bang for your buck elsewhere. In order to do this properly, we needed to start with a popular light. The Hella Rallye 4000 lamp is one of the most commonly used lights running around the desert today. It's a big, bright, 8-inch lamp that is fairly inexpensive (about $100 per light) and already adorns many off-road rides. Baja HID sells their Xentec HID kit for around $100 giving you the ability to upgrade to a pair of HID lights for only $200! 1. This is the conversion kit straight from Baja HID out of the box. Included are installation instructions, wiring, ballast and HID bulb. Baja HID gives you the option to choose what color temperature bulb you would like to run. A 3,000K (Kelvin) bulb will put off a yellow hue and a 5,000K bulb will produce a bright white hue. We chose to install the kit with 5,000K bulbs.1. This is the conversion kit straight from Baja HID out of the box. Included are installa 2. Here is our off-road light, ready to be taken apart. We removed the four allen bolts holding the lens in the housing. With the outer ring removed, it allowed us access to the lens.2. Here is our off-road light, ready to be taken apart. We removed the four allen bolts ho 3. Next, we seperated the lens from the ho4.using and removed the wiring from the back of the Hella H1 bulb.3. Next, we seperated the lens from the ho4.using and removed the wiring from the back of 4. With the wiring removed, we unclipped the bulb from the lens. 5. The new HID bulb clipped perfectly into place with the wiring already attached to the back. Unlike some of the Ebay knockoff HID conversion kits you will find, this kit is manufactured in an ISO-9001 certified factory. The HID lights also carry a lifetime warranty against defects.5. The new HID bulb clipped perfectly into place with the wiring already attached to the b 6. The wiring simply slides back through the housing. 7. The rubber grommet that comes with the Baja HID wiring is round, but the Hella housing opening is rectangular. In order to make it work and seal properly, we cut the Hella plug in half, which allowed us to run the Hella rectangular plug with the wires through the center.7. The rubber grommet that comes with the Baja HID wiring is round, but the Hella housing 8. That's all there is to it. The conversion should take you less time than it did to remove and remount the lights to your truck. In under an hour and $200 later, we now have upgraded our halogen lights to a perfect set of HID lights on our ride. As far as mounting the ballast, go ahead and mount it wherever it is convenient on your truck. We ended up mounting ours to the backside of our skid plate.8. That's all there is to it. The conversion should take you less time than it did to remo 9. If you choose to use the round plug the new lights come with, simply drill out a hole in the back of the light and you're done. You can plug the original hole with the original plug.9. If you choose to use the round plug the new lights come with, simply drill out a hole i Sources Baja HID n/a www.bajahid.com By Jordan May, Tony Rojo Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!
