New headlight option, Hmm kinda pricey but maybe just maybe Options

[Sparky]

Was researching these for my Jeep, however the 914 may just get a set. If the CFO approves it...

7\" HID

My best,
Mike D.

[ClayPerrine]

If you do put them in, you are going to HAVE to run new wiring. The stock wiring will not handle the load those things will put on the harness.

My suggestion... buy one of the JWest fuse blocks. Then run new 10 gauge power feed wires from the battery to the fuse box, and hook them to two of the spare fuse locaitons. Then run 10 gauge wires from there to the front of the car, one to each headlight location.

At each of the headlights, add 2 heavy duty relays to each side. Wire pin 30 on both relays to the wire from the fuse block, using 10 gauge wire. Run a 10 gauge white wire from pin 87 on one relay, and a 10 gauge yellow wire from pin 87 on the other relay to the back of the headlight. Hook the original headlight wires to pin 85 of the relays, matching the color of the wires that go to the headlights. From the remaining pin on the back of the headlight, run a 10 gauge brown wire and ground it to the ground post behind the headlight. Run a 16 gauge brown wire from pin 86 on each relay to the same ground post. Now put 30 Amp fuses in the two locations on the fuse box that you used.

What this does is to move the headlight load from the original 16 gauge wires that run through the headlight switch, the dimmer relay and the VW style fuse box, and it moves them to a ATO style fuse with proper sized wires that can handle the load of the monster lights.

For you guys with a /6, this is very important. On the factory /6, not only do the headlights run through the headlight switch, but they run thorugh the NLA turn signal switch. The extra power of the halogen or Litronic headlights can burn up the headlight switch, or the NLA turn signal switch.

Hope that helps.