Cibie Hesdlights? Options

[Jameel]

My headlights are pretty dim. I try not to drive at night. So I'm thinking of ordering a set of H4s. But I noticed that current lights look like Cibie's with replacable bulbs. I'm going to pop them open today to get a close look. Does anyone recognize what I've got here?

[Jameel]

...or perhaps too high of expectations.

Thing is, even decent H4s are not going to be equal to modern headlights.

Now that you have power and ground worked out, you could try higher wattage bulbs, preferably with relays to prevent overloading the headlight switch and dimmer relay. But in my experience, once you have full voltage going to the lights, the difference between 55/60 watts and 80 or even 100 watts is actually pretty hard to tell, and the hotter bulbs have a much shorter life span.

As I said above, it's going to be really hard to make 7" lights in a 914 perform even close to modern expectations. Today's HID and LED lights are much better lights. You may see some improvement by putting LED bulbs in those housings, but since the housings were designed for halogen bulbs, you still won't get light output that is on par with modern cars. The light housings are not optimized for newer light sources.

I'm leaning towards LED's from Mark at the moment. This time of year its really easy to head out for the evening and end up driving home in the dark. Buddy hit a deer in his '71 911S a couple months ago, so this topic is at the forefront for me.