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tuanEH?
17-04-2009, 12:12 AM
Hey, does anyone know the best place to put the HID Ballast for an EK1?
tuanEH?
17-04-2009, 12:29 AM
cmon people, I wanna install my HID kit tomorrow but I'm not sure where to place the ballasts
soru
17-04-2009, 12:39 AM
take the front bumper off and there is plenty of spaces to hide the ballast from the popos'. Not sure about the civic but on the integra and EG civic you can place the left ballast right underneath the overflow bottle. The right side I placed inside my right fender.
dtrang
17-04-2009, 12:43 AM
What car? Ek? Wellfor the dc2 one side is bolted to the front support bar with a metal bracket(should be supplied) and the other maybe bolt the bracket onto the strut tower...

Have you retrofitted them? Hope that you're not going to blind ppl!
tuanEH?
17-04-2009, 12:44 AM
Alright thanks, I'll give it a try, btw is it illegal to have have exposed ballasts?
ksl
17-04-2009, 08:13 AM
you r better not to expose the ballast, as HID is illegal on the road if you dont have projector and the light washer
turtle187
17-04-2009, 09:28 AM
hey dude the best place to put ur ballest is where the two metal plates r they kind of hold up ur headlights,
take off ur front bar and u shall see
thats where i put mine
dtrang
17-04-2009, 10:29 AM
hmm i should move my ballasts too... try it when i take off my resonator
EK1.6LCIV
17-04-2009, 11:07 AM
I have mine located one near my factory air box and the other a good 30mm away from my pully on the passenger side as the kit didnt have alot of flexibility for the bumper install...

plus cbfed cutting wires etc etc, lol

everything looks pretty stealth as is in a stock EJ8
EK1.6LCIV
17-04-2009, 11:08 AM
you r better not to expose the ballast, as HID is illegal on the road if you dont have projector and the light washer

you mean a washer jet? whys this? Im geniunely curious
EG52NV
17-04-2009, 11:20 AM
you mean a washer jet? whys this? Im geniunely curious

Apparently, if your projector heads lights are dirty and you don't have washer jets, the dirt will deflect the ultra bright HID lights in an undesirable way making it illegal.. Sounds like a pretty dumb law to me anyway..
EK1.6LCIV
17-04-2009, 11:25 AM
lol itd get dirt on it every day of the wk lol

very silly law lol