Quote Originally Posted by DynamicSound
Okay, people really are off about projectors. Projectors actually CUT DOWN on your light output. This is because it concentrates it down to a single beam and has to go through 2 seperate glasses...instead of 1 on the reflector housing. Have you have done a projector swop with Halogens?? You have them on your reflector housing them switch to projectors. You get about 60-80% of the light output you did with the reflector housing. Having HID's in a reflector housing does not blind people nor does it make you a ricer. If it did, then the majority of luxury cars with factory HID's are ricers...lol. What blinds people is when they have mis-aligned headlights that are aimed too high. This can happen with projectors too.

So to sum up, adding HID's to your hi beam will give you about twice the light output versus your projector lo beams with HID's.
yes, but correct me if I am wrong, the HID's in reflectors scatter the light more, therefore have an easier chance of blinding people, where compared to the projectors that are concentrated which lessens this chance. I personally have yet to see a reflector housing with HID's that have been properly aimed. What he is going to be doing is putting HID's in a reflector housing, so he will get maximum output, but will have a hell of a better chance at taking out people eyes. But if the OP is driving in rural places and knows he wont piss people off, then thats fine by me, I like the guy for being level headed and smart enough to not be a jackass