RE: Anyone fitted H.I.D. headlights to a 60s Alfa?

[Simon Body <body@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew

A much cheaper fix, recommended by Brian Shorey in Velocissima a few years 
ago, is to put the headlights on a relay. Attached is a pdf file of the 
details, that he sent to me. Essentially you are skipping about 10 feet of 
low quality wiring and the aging headlight switch, thus a good 13-14V hits 
the lights with a squared increase in light output. (Power = V^2/R)

I just did this to my 90's Spider with an appreciable improvement. I also 
put daytime running lights on it at the same time and plan to put the 
starter solenoid on another relay as soon as the Bosch relay arrives. It 
took about 3 hours to do a vaguely professional job (IMHO) and cost about 
$80, excluding the tools I had lying around. I'm fairly close to you and 
have some of the black vinyl tube that covers wiring so that you don't see 
the wires in the engine compartment. It also protects them from heat. Give 
me a buzz off-line and I can give you some.

Good sites to check out are Waytek http://www.waytekwire.com/ , Del City 
http://www.delcity.net/ , and Home Depot for oil/heat resistant wire for 
under the hood. The DRL was a Hamsar 45035 http://www.hamsar.com/drl.htm .

Regards
Simon
91 Spider
Dover, MA

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