Where did you order your Hella housings from?

 

I got them off Amazon, says DOT approved, keeping fingers crossed.

these are pictures of the sealed beam lights.

I’ll post the new plus old, then just the new.



Sealed beam low

Sealed beam high

 

These are with the left one with Hella and LED

Low beam

High beam

 

Final shots with both LED. What an amazing difference from the sealed beam lights. Definitely worth it and being plug and play, one of the easiest mods I’ve done.

Low beam, I’ll need to make some aiming adjustments, but will do that another day.

High beam

 

I agree that they make a huge difference. Once I installed them in my Porsche 944, I knew the 85 RX-7 was next. They were that good! I have zero regrets.

 

Weird....

I like the 40 year old halogens in my RX-7 over the HIDs in my Volvo.

It is so much EASIER to see things with the RX-7, because it doesn't kill your night vision with a bright spot right in front of the car.

 

I'm with peejay.

I've got LED's everywhere, not a tungsten, halogen or fluorescent left inside or outside the house.

But I'm sticking with the original sealed beam halogens on my FB.

In twenty years of FB driving, I've replaced exactly 1 of my headlight units.

And you can't replace the Old School Glow of those Pop Up Bug Eyes.

Priceless.

That's the way the Mazda Engineers meant it to be.

Anything else will offend the Rotary Gods.

Not to mention the offense to oncoming drivers the penitentiary spotlights these so called upgrades create.

 

It was designed by Mazda engineers like that 40 years ago...if the rx7 would've been in production right now it would've come out with....LED headlights....

And the blinding the other drivers driving by if you know how the law requires the headlights to be angled you'll know that the driver side headlight got to be aimed lower that the right side to avoid blinding the oncoming drivers...

 

No Mazda Engineer would approve this, even in 2021:



This is what a 1st gen Mazda RX-7 headlight should look like:



Probably what the Mazda Engineers would go with these days, but I'd check with the Rotary Gods first.

 

I drove it this morning, no one was offended enough to flash me and most of the drivers are from the NE. They will hit you in a second if they are offended. It was pretty busy too!

I got these for necessities, the deer population is out of control here. Seeing that the bill to fix my wife's van was north of my 7k, with her deer strike last year, I'm keeping the LEDs. Rotary gods be dammed! I may even put all LEDs in the car next year.

 

I'm just joking of course, safety first, and those deer can be a problem.

I had to donate one of my spare hoods and a fender to an FB friend who was hit by a deer.

(We now call him "deerslayer").

But I am serious about maintaining the original look and performance for first gens.

That means no spider or beetle eyes.

By the way, I've found the biggest thing affecting my original headlights is road dirt.

You can double the brightness just by going out and wiping them down once in awhile.

 

Modern cars have headlights designed by indifferent people. The DOT was pressured by lobbyists to relax headlight standards because "people will get used to it". Styling wanted clear lenses for appearance reasons, but these are extremely expensive to get a good beam pattern because all of the optics have to be in the reflector, so they lobbied for looser specs on where light can and can't go, and looser specs on how bright they are allowed to be. And there is NO Federal testing procedure, it's self test and their word that they are okay.

Proper Euro beam headlights don't light up the ground at ALL. The specs were designed by lighting engineers and not industry lobbyists. I had these on my Golf. They were freakin' awesome. You could see things 100 yards away no problem, especially if you dimmed the interior lights nice and low so your night vision isn't killed.

 

I wax the lenses every time I wash the car, these are easy to forget since they are hidden away. I do love the glass lenses of both the sealed beam and the H4, no clouding like my other cars.

 

Yep, that glass sure is a pleasure after wiping those plastic LED covers.

 

You need to do this Chris. It really makes a difference especially with the cluster lighting on the interior. The only incandescent bulbs I have now are some small ones in the HVAC controls and the license plate lights (SA) both are a pain to replace. Heres the other good thing, when LEDs everywhere, if you accidently leave the parking lights on, no issue, they won't drain that battery even overnight. Ask me how I know.

 

My incandescent dome light draws .8 amps!

 

Like I said before...not everyone likes the spider eyes headlights...also I don't care about keeping the factory look...I like the way the look and how bright are them....so let's agree to disagree....

Also...I've changed every bulb to leds, inside and out... cluster, map light,, trunk light, center console...every little bulbs is led...I changed the license plate bulbs from the old filament style that cost $10.00 each to use 194 leds.....and the look bright and awesome (don't mind the license plate, was the previous owner)...plus I changed all the parking lights plugs because they were corroded and kept breaking off to new 194 plugs with new led bulbs....and like the license plate they are bright...

 

Those look great!