Just wanted to say that I installed the C-West headlight kit today and I find it a big improvement over the stock headlights on both low and high beam(Which isn't saying much). It makes the car look alot newer and is a very sleek design. I had a problem with one of my pop-up headlight covers blowing off at 162mph a few weeks ago and now say bye to the stock headlight design. Some say that the bubble shape takes away from the lines of the car but it looks great to me. And the best part....the car doesn't resemble a vette as much any more.

 

You planning on putting HID's in there? I am still trying to find someone that has put HID's in there CWest kit and to tell me how the projectors look. If you do plan on putting HID's in there.... and want the look of the blue-ish to white looke (read: Audi, BMW, Cadi CTS) this site is a good read.

http://www.audiworld.com/tech/ext49.shtml

Jonesie -

 

162MPH eh? That's pretty nuts.

 

I have had two vet guys driving by and waving at me in the last month like we are in some club or something. You can tell these guys don't know dik. Can't even tell the difference between their vet and mazda

 

How hard was the install? I'm deciding between the sleek headlight HID's or popup replacement HID's. I like the look of the sleek headlight kit, and I've read RE's page about their install, but I haven't read C-West's page at all.

 

Install is a piece of cake. It'll take you longer to remove the stock assembly than it will to install the cwest lights.

 

if you are going to get sleek lights at least get the rotary extreme kit. they at least use good lamps (except the hid version). the cwest kit is 2 sets of fog lights trying to be passed off as headlamps.

p.s. all the sleek light kits require permanent modification to the frame, you cant go back.

 

Nope. The East Bear kit that I have did not require any modifications to the frame or body what-so-ever. It was a straight drop in.

 

I thought the C-West was also a drop in?

 

oh, sorry i overlooked the east bear kit.

im positive about the rotary extreme and re amemiya, and altough i cant find any info to back it up right now i remember seeing a cwest install howto that involved cutting.

 

The Rotary Extreme definitely needs cutting to install. I saw some of the install process first hand.

 

C-West doesn't require any cutting, the RE and Rotary Extreme do however.
I used to like sleek lights, but I'm very happy with my E-Spec lenses and Catz HID's.

 

Im planning on doing the C-West install here in about a month. Did you splice the C-west kit in or did you make something to adapt to the stock plug? What relay did you use for the install? any extra info you have would be greatly appriciated.

 

Me too... but I'm saving to HID at the same time.

found this

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...threadid=46477

 

as soon as my site is back up (today im told) im going to do a howto for wiring your high beams to stay on with the lows which is a great improvment for us guys running 4 light setups. i will also have the info on how to make an adapter harness that plugs directly in to the stock plug. see my sig for the site.

 

I have the C-west kit also. IT IS A DIRECT BOLT IN, NO CUTTING IS REQUIRED. I was thinking about retrofitting HID's but I'm gonna wire it up so all 4 lights are on and see how I like that first.

The biggest pain in the *** with the C-west kit is aiming the lights after installation so you can see good but don't blind oncoming drivers.

 

The kit bolts right in. It takes longer to take out the stock lights than the install, yes. It's simple, blue and black wire coming from each light. Stock harness has 3, 2 red 1 black. Each red goes to each light, and splice the 1 black into 2. The catz lights have a male connecter, and come with extra wiring. I clipped the female ends off of the extra wiring from catz and soldered it onto my (cut) stock harness....simple. Like 93 R1 said, it is harder to aim the lights than anything!