Suedes Car Club
Tech Q and A => Electrical => Topic started by: Tom on March 13, 2008 5:38 pm
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If I remember right is was 1958 when the big 3 starting using the 4 headlight system. 2 would have high and low beam and 2 would be high beam only. If you were to use a set of the high and low beam lamps only is there a noticeable loss when in the high beam mode?? Any body have any experience with this??
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Do you have two hi beams burned out and don't want to spring for new bulbs? I'm sure you would notice a difference but It would be like driving a 57 chevy pu compared to a 58.
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had this sitting arould thought it was kind of cool must have been a problem back then
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That is a cool looking realy.
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If you were to use a set of the high and low beam lamps only
I don't get what you're asking.
My chevelle has 4 like that. 2 on low, all 4 on high. After awhile at night, my lights start to blink (run out of juice or something) on high beam until I turn the highs off.
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i would think that there would be a difference. since only two lights would be on instead of four. my catalina has the 4 lamp system and is very bright when the hight beam is on (all 4 lamps). i guess what i am saying is 4 is better than 2.
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As usual I didn't give enough info. Want to do a custom treatment to the front of my 4d Chevy and use the high, low beam head light from the 4 headlight system. They are smaller in size than the 2 system style which I have now. If they are available in halogen style I bet they would be brighter than they were back in fifties.
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Are you planning on doing it b4 Toppers?
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Are you planning on doing it b4 Toppers?
ha ha, as fuckin' slow as I am I'll be lucky to have the bag job done by then.
I had the carb off and rebushed the throtle plates. Started it the other day and it runs like shit, so I got that to do that also before toppers.
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New name Kustom Tom. :)
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Kustom Tom...I like that! Well you and Dallas can talk kustoms and KOA, AND you can get a matching George Barris jacket like Dallas :)
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so you want to put 5" bulbs in si`?
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Yes Ross, that's the plan.
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oh, i get it. SWEET!
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, AND you can get a matching George Barris jacket like Dallas :)
Sorry Blain but I'm not a big fan of George, he thinks he such a ladys man, and at one time he may have been. But now I don't Viagra could get it up. :wink:
Now Sam (and George's early work) was tits!! I offen wounder if Sam had lived as long as George what the Barris name would be remember as.
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Oh yeah I agree...Sam's work was awesome, the Barris name would not be Monkee mobiles and Grease lightning!
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after sam died i think george sold his soul to be famous and liver forever. see the monkeemoble for proof
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There are indeed halogens out there, I'm running all four halogens on my wagon. It lights up the night just fine- I think you'd be able to get away just fine with just the high/low setup.