Ok, latest update. I bought a set of JW Speaker Evo 2 8700 LED headlights
J.W. Speaker 554941 J. W. Speaker 8700 Evo 2 DOT-Compliant Dual Burn LED Headlights | Summit Racing and installed them. As part of my wire harness upgrade I had already installed a headlight relay from
@crackedback, which made a pretty significant difference with the brightness of the regular old incandescent headlights I had been running. But since the days have started getting shorter again already and my commute will soon be in the dark on my way in to work with 60 miles of driving and a decent chunk of that in "deer country" I wanted to upgrade as much as I could. Since
@slantsixdan listed the JW speaker headlights as the best out there, I bit the bullet and bought them.
I did need to modify the factory buckets so the JW speaker headlights fit, I tried a few times to make it less cutting than what I ended up with but after a few trials I decided just to stop messing with it and cut the clearance I really needed. Stock bucket on the left, modified on the right. I just used a set of tin snips and filed the edges afterward
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With the headlight in the bucket, you can see why the clearance was needed. I had tried to leave it so it was just cut out around the tallest fins in the middle, but it was still hitting around the edge and that was keeping the trim rings from sitting all the way down. So off it went!
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I had some reservations about how they were going to look before I bought them, since they look so different from the "traditional" headlights. But after installing them, I have to say I think they look even better! And the most important part, I think they dramatically improve the vision I have on the road. Which was the whole point, since I want to keep driving in the dark!
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