Primordial Chaos

The Wallflowers - One Headlight. This is actually the first song I did not have in my library that I've used for my blog. However I will have it shortly, probably before I finish writing this, so technically it counts. :P I had to get the song all considering the whole headlight saga.



And the saga continues, but in a more positive direction. As far as tracking down a replacement bulb, Google searches and asking at different car places got me shit loads of nowhere. Asked on a couple of the Honda forums, got bullshit for driving a del sol and was referred to as a poser. Question did not get answered. What the fuck was that about? Geez. I'm just as much a Honda owner as anyone else...BECAUSE I OWN A GODDAMN HONDA. Pretty sure that's the criteria. Moving on.

So, I had an idea earlier of one more place I could ask. I resorted to registering an account on a forum for ricers. Asked my question, told them my car and model, bulb size/wattage/brightness from the tag on the bulb. Expected tons of bullshit, because ricers here are always giving me shit and trying to show off how much better their cars are and such.

They were completely polite and friendly, and I had a TON of good info from 6 different people in about 20 minutes. Ricers to the rescue!

The BEST part I found out, well best depends on who you ask, but it's best to me. Anyways, there is a bulb with whiter light than my violet-ish ones, so better visibility, less glare from the color and apparently cops prefer these to any of the ones that give off some color and they're closer to day light. What this basically means is...it's brighter. A lot. I've been giggling with mischievous glee off and on since. White lights that are brighter than my current ones that get the thumbs up from the cops? Yeah, you better hope you don't tick me off at night cause you're gonna be sorrier than before. I'm considering this information a Christmas gift. Everyone else should consider this trouble brewing. :P

I have to order them from online, there's not a lot of aftermarket car places here that would carry such a thing. So I guess I'll get a couple of sets so I'm not without my prized headlights for this long again. It's also my only "HEY ASSHOLE ON THE PHONE/IN THE SUV, DON'T HIT ME, I'M RIGHT HERE" defense. So besides the whole terrorizing shitty drivers with my lights, they are a safety feature as well. I like things with multiple uses. Like my Droid. :P I like things that serve both a good and questionable purpose. Like me. :P (Kidding, sorta. Tormenting my bro is a questionable purpose. :P)

So I'm currently trying to narrow down what exact type I want. What I have are H4-2, 35 watt 6000K bulbs. There's two bulbs on the one bulb base...one of which is fucking pointless. I could do some rewiring (A LOT OF REWIRING) to make it useful, but yeah no. I love doing my own stuff to my car, but wiring and running wires or splicing wires is a pain in the ass. My car is already wired for a subwoofer though. :P But I really don't need or like hard thumping bass. Though I may want to have bass coming from a woofer than the speakers, because the damn speakers that do the bass are right by my head. I have tweeters, might as well have a woofer. :P Totally went WAY off topic.

I'm eying H4-1 bulbs, 35W and 4300K. The wattage can't really change, and the size can't either...but there are different types of H4. 4300K I won't let change cause I want the damn white lights. :P

Well, wait a second. Reading about the difference between 4300K and 6000K...the 6000Ks emit a whiter light but it has less output. Hrm. Aw hell, I'll order sets of both and try the 4300K for a while. If I hate it I got back to what I had, if I like it then backup sets. Even though my other bulb is just fine, this is one of those replace both at the same time deals. Which I'd have to do anyways if I change from the H4-2s. I'm not making sense to anyone but myself, am I? :P

Ok, I'll explain, because....why the hell not, it's my blog! The K number is the color tempature, the bigger the K number, the dimmer but bluer the light. The smaller the K number, the brighter and whiter the light. W is wattage. The first shock I got while digging around in my lights when the bulb burnt out was the massive and complex electrical system that had to be installed and it's JUST for the lights. Nothing else uses the system. Being me, I had to follow the wires and figure out how it works, what each wire means, etc. It is clever and interesting how the whole set up works. IN GENERAL (always exceptions) each system uses a particular wattage, the most common are 35 and 55. Mine, as mentioned previously, is 35W. The H4-2 or -1 or there's H3s, H7...anyways, it's basically just a bulb type. It corresponds to the different shapes of halogen bulbs you use around the house, the standard shape bulb,  flood lights and so on.

Well, apparently the second bulb DOES serve a purpose, in some states there is a law about having to have high beam lights for inspection. I'll look into that before I change bulb types then.

Isn't it fucking ridiculous how much I can say about some headlights? I'm tempted to put angel eye lights on my car, but I'll leave that for another time.

You know this is bad if I put it at the bottom of my post, but....my Lobos finally suffered their first loss, we're 12-1 now. Evil number 13! Anyways, the next game is the 29th, at the Pit, against Texas Tech. This game is being broadcast on the CBS College Sports channel....since I'm sitting kinda close to Tech's bench, there's a chance of me embarrassing myself on national TV. A good chance. A really good chance. So if you're bored Tues. night and get that channel.... :P I may even wear my blue hat so you know it's me in the sea of red. Maybe. I'd rather not be identifiable if I get in trouble though. :P

I have a bunch of half started posts I haven't posted...so I'm going to try and get those up before the end of the year if I haven't already covered the topic. So expect a bit more posting than usual.

~A.