Brighter headlight bulbs?

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I noticed that the headlights are much brighter on my buddys Mach1000 than mine. I thought my headlights were bright but his makes mine look orange. His are nice and white. What's a good bulb to go with? I don't want those ones with the blue tint. Do Bombardiers have different bulbs? Will those fit my Viper? Thanx!
 
do a search.........

http://www.totallyamaha.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1559&page=1&pp=10&highlight=light+bulbs

http://www.totallyamaha.net/forums/showthread.php?t=952&highlight=light+bulbs

http://www.totallyamaha.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8225&highlight=light+bulbs

and as far as my answer, take the bulb down to the automotive store and ask for silverstars with the same plug, and get the LED tail lights while your at it. 20-25 bucks a piece for the head lights, and 5-7 bucks for the tail light bulb.
 
your stock are 55/60 so if you throw in some 90/100 you'll have some more light.check your local auto parts store or walmart.most stock them now.just your standard H4 style bulb.also your buddy might just have a better headlight designed reflector.
 
you can get bulbs with a 100 watt high and a regular 55 watt low.
that way you wont be blinding people with the lows but you still have the real bright high beam if you want it. with the 90/100 you unecisarily blinding oncomming traffic.
 
I believe this to be ...
true HID's usually require some sort of box that controls the power or boosts it or?
the bulbs that are available have filaments designed to look like HID
HID's run at at a 5000 rating...
I think silverstars run at like 4000
halogen bulbs run at something like 2500..
I've been told and experienced this...I've tried many different bulbs....both on the single headlight machines and the dual headlight machines
the white bulbs of higher wattage obviously give you a farther view...but in certain weather the white light is actually a detriment...reflecting...the best bulbs I have used were higher wattage all weather bulb that cast a slight bluish hue and cut through fog ....snow dust much better...
keep in mind anything that draws more wattage like bulbs or heated shields will take more away from the power you have...this can be especially problematic with the older single bulb machines....in those machines I would recommend a 55/100 watts
in a dual bulb ...I've used as high as a 80/100 but the 80w can peeve some guys on the trail ....but really works well
 
there's a place called I think Brightlights? that specializes in this kind of stuff for bikes,sleds and quads....they're prices were fairly reasonable....I actuall bought some bulbs at our novi, mich snow show...you might find one of their adds in one of the snowmobile magazines?
also...High performance engineering has some of the all weather bulbs
 
blue light might be good for seeing though fog and such but it is also the color of light that causes the most glare for oncomming traffic
 
carefull with how much wattage you go with. i spent 2 days going through the wiring harness on my fathers SRX, just to find out he had a higher wattage bulb that burned up one of the connections. not a fun thing to try and chase down!
 
it is not a blue light as much as it has a blued coating on the bulb which makes it an all weather bulb....it also produces the LEAST GLARE compared to white bulbs....the most glare has been acused on the "super white" bulbs....like the "silverstar"....(a great halogen bulb....and the early HID systems and that's why the government initially tried to outlaw them years back claiming they blinded oncoming drivers...
the latest HID systems now have a blueish hue to them...I have such a system on one of my cars a mazda 3...
 
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