doctorzaius

I'm trying to upgrade my stock headlights. So I changed the halogen bulbs for Beamtech LEDs and the results have been less than great. Beam pattern is weird, has lots of hot (and dark) spots and actually seems to put more light lower when switching to high beam. Are there better lenses? Or anything else that really helps (not open to non-popup headlights). Thanks.

TwinCharged RX7

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https://rx-lights.com/shop

Pete_89T2

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You can try a set of headlight housings like these:
These are basically the Spyder/Sonar housings with a clear face lens, so all the optical beam forming is done by the reflector - and they are designed for use with halogen bulbs. Used accordingly, with a good set of halogens (e.g., the extra bright sylvania silver stars or similar) and aimed correctly per the FSM, they should be a good improvement over stock. Since your Beamtech LED bulbs are not the same as a halogen bulb (i.e. the light actually comes from multiple point sources on the chip vs. one point source on the halogen bulb, and at different locations), simply replacing an LED bulb into a regular halogen housing/lens usually results in a crappy beam pattern because the reflector optics design is buggered up.

Another option with minimal fabrication necessary is to retrofit a set of Bi-LED projector assemblies into a set of the housings linked above. That puts all the optics in the projector, and they work almost as good as a quality set of HID retrofits. That's what I did recently and it's a nice upgrade. There's a thread that talks to how to do it here: https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generati...rofit-1148884/

doctorzaius

Thanks guys, that is very helpful.

suzukisteve

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My $0.02: My Rx-7 is not my primary driver, that means it does not get driven in the dark or in bad weather a lot. I put about 9k miles on it the first two years I owned it. I run the top shelf, brightest halogen bulbs (within reason) from my local auto parts store. https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/...ubp2/5080137-P Are they the brightest possible bulb you can get? No, but they are cheap in the grand scheme of things and since the car is not driven daily, they do not have to be replaced often. They provide plenty of illumination to get me where I need to go. Last year I had a weekly habit of driving the car 40 miles round trip to some friend's house on Sunday nights and never felt like the bulbs were inadequate. Also adjusting the aim via the screws around the head light housing really helps out.

Sgtblue

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+1 for the Silverstars. Completely PnP and they’ve always been plenty for me.
If that’s not the case for the OP do a search using a term like “headlights” in titles-only and you’ll probably get a couple pages of what others have bought and tried over the years. Usually requiring successive degrees of modifications and cost….but there you go.

Zepticon

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The chrome in stock lights degrade over time and with use. Unavoidable, but you will further degrade them if you are using higher watt bulbs.

Sgtblue

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I never noticed any degradation on the OEM housing. But like suzukisteve I don’t drive a lot at night. My test is a tree-lined two-lane I travel to get to my neighborhood that has no street lights. There might be something else out there that’s better, but the silverstars have always done well enough and compare decently with the modern LEDs on my F150 KR