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Should I go ahead with my project and convert 3 kc lights to hid and mount them?

Opinions on Lights behind grille

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9.4K views 46 replies 11 participants last post by  Madanio24  
#1 ·
Ok guys,

I have an idea call me crazy if you must but anyway....

I want to mount 3 kc daylighters behind the grille of my wk. I currently have the srt grille. These 3 lights will be converted to 6000k hids for even more light. Do you think light will be able to shine through the srt grille with not much cutoff?
 
#3 ·
might as well. if you dont like it, get rid of it.

But i think it's more of an offroad thing.
 
#4 ·
^ x2
 
#8 ·
They are illegal where I am. But I am not going to use them on roads where there are other cars. I will use them on back roads where there are no lights at all. And a local winter offroad area that is 15 miles of darkness lol. I have 8k in the projectors and fogs. They are very bright, just thought it would be cool to be supppper bright!
 
#9 ·
I want to do something custom, but the only thing I'm worried about is it making the visual aspect of the front look bad. I don't want to look at the front of jeep and have eye 3 lights stick out like a sore thumb.
 
#30 ·
I gotta say I agree with the majority saying that 3 up front is just too much..
Agree with mTBrunner in the sense that it throws off the shape and flow of the Jeeps front end.. it looked good on the Taco but it suited the stock light shape and form of the front end/grill.. i think it being a pickup helps it as well for some reason (in my mind, at least)

Agree with Mosier with just adding one to the opposite second opening of the grill.. and leaving the middle alone.. it just fits the flow of the front end WAY better..

look at your example image.. you have your headlamps offset wide, the fogs underneath.. and then you would have the two in the grill with the plate in between.. a nice juxtapositon.
Aesthetically speaking... it just looks better to go with 2 and if you are converting them to be bright HIDs, the two will provide plenty of output,even through that SRT grill, IMO.
 
#31 ·
Ok guys I have decided thanks to you that I should just put two lights in the 2 first slits of the grille. These will be converted to hid either 55 or 35 watt 6000k. I think it looks good with the srt grille and 2 lights behind it. 3 would be too much.