Title: Project Rally RS – Episode 2 – HID Lights Runtime: 3:29 Release Date: 4/2/08 The Project Rally RS saga continues, and in this episode we document the installation of six 4†Fuego HID lights (Soltek Light Systems / Baja Designs). These lights will be used to improve visibility on those dark night stages. The entire installation was custom, from having machined aluminum brackets from Jackson Rally to hold the wide cornering HID’s in the OEM fog light positions, to designing and wiring all the electrical components. Each light contains its own internal ballast and weighs in at a mere 3.5 lbs. Four of these lights are attached to our custom Jackson Rally GC light bar, these particular Fuegos feature “Driving†lenses for superior beam penetration into the darkest night roads. Fitted into the stock fog light positions is two more Fuego lights, these feature “wide cornering†lenses for a broader field of vision. This should be helpful when sliding through corners on the loose stuff. The electrical components were tricky, but nothing that can’t be handled by someone with minimal understanding of relays and fuses. The 3 universal relays are mounted in a splash-proof Hella relay block, which is fed by a splash-proof ATC fuse block using 30A fuses. Both of these boxes have been mounted to the inside of the engine compartment. The relays are controlled by 3 toggle switches in the cabin which are tied into the factory high-beam switch to be NASA compliant (Article 3.2.1.1 Section 4). The light output from this system is truly awesome! If you want to learn more about the DirtyImpreza.com Project Rally RS check out our journal here
Nice work! They look pretty damn good, but I want to see the difference in just the head lamps and then the head lamps with the aux lights. Looks like fairly good output. I like the bar too and the factory fog hole modding. I suppose you're from out of state?
The difference between the headlights and the aux lights is ridiculous. After driving around with the HID's on and reverting back to just the headlights, it seemed like i was driving in the dark again. Yes im from out of state, im in CA, i just like to check out your guys' ice races, etc.
Nice. Thinking of getting a set up going for next winter. Just don't know if I want to run halogen or the baja designs LED setup. I heard the LED setup lights up more than ff1000's with 100w bulbs. More expensive, but I will only need two instead of four. Hmmm...so many choices
They are really small which i think is really sweet. I barely see the tops of them over the scoop on my RS.
Yea, looks good. My light bar is even with my front bumper, so they would not be seen over the hood either.
Yeah, i mean the big hood light pods are hardcore rally badass looking, but i'd like to be able to see how far the corner of my car is from the berms, if possible!
I love the light setup on the RS. Although I think it would have been sweeter to mount them in the front bumper like Rich did on his RS.
Anyone have any pics of Rich's light bar? Id like to see it! The design we made is a compromise between the following things: 1) air flow into the radiator 2) visibility down the hood 3) ease of bumper removal w/o removing lightbar 4) getting the lights up high enough where they will be most effective
