1996 GMC 5-speed

[Barry Donovan]

generation 1 small block

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was looking up the latest duramax, ended up in the generation 1 gas v8 section of wikipedia.
for the heck of it, I was listing torque values from biggest to smallest.

of all small blocks since 1967...

the L30 is in fifth place, of all time...it even goes by some of the 350.
Knowing small blocks, I go for torque values, and this tells you how much air you can feed it for a given cam/head. it squares up most often, to the torque. A lot of companies played that game, it was a universal think for 87 octane. Even my subaru is there. The max hp ends up the max torque. Germany and USA are the encoders. That began in the 50s and 60s.. still with us today...

Most often the head would be a restrictor, but that is why I like gm..they find other ways to restrict, allowing builders more options on a standard larger head.
The L30 has the first head for the next generation of higher powers. It seems the truck was the guinea pig, the first vortec.. 1996-1998.

the other thing to note, the fifth place is simply the doubtful rank, as carb engines never had the curve of a mulitport, nor the metric tolerance. This L30 is actually a 306.

I like to null imaginations, especially with the gm stuff. I seem to be in an older realm.

the other numbers, gm wrote themselves.. the manual tranny has 30hp more than the auto, to the wheels.
Squaring up the L30 is very close to the classic 300hp we all loved growing up. Most had to build to get that far (I know I did). That used to be a big impressive number down to the ground, especially in cars.

anyway,
the L30 at 290 ft lbs out of the box..2800rpm. it could do a simple cam to a bit more duration to square up 300...maybe push it into 5k rpm total, 3k max torque. Idle would still be nice... no lope. That is to the ground of course, I do not know the theory games at the flywheel.
With these gmt 400chassis, I'd have to think of ladder/traction and good front shocks, maybe even coil over addon up there. I know the sway bar and overall steel structure, impressive.. would not need much.
This is after real mounts where the matter, tranny/cab etc.

[Barry Donovan]

305 decal

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I have never seen one of these.
the exotic 305 racing flag decal.

I am an intense bidding war all by myself on ebay to get it.

[Barry Donovan]

hospital run

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adding this truck to #1 of my 23 legends.
anyway..
never had a vehicle where you don't need to think.

a neighbor called, needed a ride home form the hospital.
70 miles or so.

driving silent..radio off, heater down low. A faint sound of the 3400 pound sidewall kumhos, and a singing only my subaru used to give.

I do like my versions of timing.

8 cylinders thumping like a little locomotive is an icing on the cake.

smooth as glass.
The truck is big enough where vehicles follow like we do tractor trailers, as if a lamprey approaching a whale, but never latching on...



I bet some think I don't see them back there.
vehicles passing, they must be content in knowing a ricer throttled snappy twacker revenge for passing is unlikely, as they go by the 12 foot wheel base sailing along..
A very mature feeling to drive this, more my own age and persona.


I recommend a truck to anyone that can.




I remember being at the helm of the old style international cabover at night. Manual steering. I was 13 in 1986. Growth for that one summer left head and fingers and toes banging off things on my way to the 6 footer. Voice bouncing between a soprano and window shaker...

the one in photos, its on ebay.. his blue one was registered connecticut, identical color, steelie wheels with white paint, front alloy, and the same bend in the bumper. I would not be surprised if this is the same truck.

Loaded up, going north. My dad hopped out of the seat while it was going down a desolate highway. He used to laugh at this.. never did figure that out. As luck would have it, started getting into traffic, a truck was going slower than the 70 top speed of the old IH..
the clunk of the old blinker switch, seeing a row of lights going back 50 feet, and the annoying one below the mirror...
left lane for me.
A hill, a truck to pass, and a gear to drop...
I was nervous.

let it grumble to 1500, double clutch a change...
back to the floor,
and creep by another 40 tons in the slow lane...6 inches of play either way in the wheel, as we drifted within a foot or two of smacking trailers.

[Barry Donovan]

I won!

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the exotic 305 sticker is now mine.
intense bidding battle, the drama, the stress.



some like to stare at 350s.
Some actually like to drive, by having a 305.

[Barry Donovan]

84k miles, 2500

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This is a gem to me.

http://maine.craigslist.org/cto/5880532300.html

good deal.

original everything, needs nothing...but a bigger than standard parking.
my own at 141.5 wheelbase is right at the normal limits, everywhere I go.
including the odd 78 inch parking garage.

hollywood casinos in bangor has a ramp, and the back of the cab barely gets by the warning red bar..
$5500.. I would not even barter, I'd just pay it.

I learn these models by looking around at them.
the 8 foot bed in this cab gets a cap.

the little beds, too short to notice. The long beds like the caps.

something peculiar.. to this day, even on a maine horizon highway.. this truck looks simply Huge. You know its coming.
the height to length..not sure what does it. it just looks huge.




a 6 liter, 5speed manual
this is more my "dream" truck..
Not a common find. Just like my 96.

Given the 6.0 is the loudest gas engine out here in the woods, adding a manual to it, rowing the gears..
I'd like this more than my tried and true iron, for however long it lasted.

[Barry Donovan]

scrapping new headlamps.

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I liked how bright the chinese lamps I got were..
six months later, I saw some bouncing at night, and off to different directions.
six months after that, waiting for summer...

I have safety wire in more places than the safety wire can keep up with.

shattered in every part of the new headlights in every way...
still waterproof tho.(first edition bought january 31, 2015)

Coming home tonight, after a day in dads peterbilt with the LED projectors.
34F sleet, heavy thick drizzle rain and fog.

made up my mind.
off to the dumpster the broken pieces go,



...and in with even more complicated silly looking chinese headlamps for my gmc.

one last tip, my very own.. but had listened in on some theories. A lot of welding on the aging iron, the molecules keep moving. ..right into the black hole of incandescent bulbs. This makes a brown shade no one wants. Blame the grounds, blame edison, blame the alternator...just get out of my way. somwhere near 60watts, single filament, it blasts its way past the weirdness. Who the hell wants frying pans for headlamps?

I figure its time to get the last of the old design out. Especially low beam side.

learning by trial and error with my subaru, if I blind someone, I'd rather the gun blast going there.
6000k, 3000lm-3200lm is pleasant,
Maine road rage = elephant guns.
Anyway, this ships with an H1 bulb, and have all combos.. 9005/6/h4. Will tinker to see which HID it will take. The high beam on this truck is freakish. Don't need to mess with it. For the so called DRL LED, those will have to tap into low beam..go off on high. Unless I run a complicated pile of my spaghetti. GMC parking lamps all blink to the blinkers, there is no set parking. I do not need DRL headlight blinking to my blinkers.
So, the DRL would have to be on its own, a new switch...unless I tap the ten foot run to the interior dash lights...or maybe find that outside underhood.

will show when it is done.

these will be all LED, and barely torqued into the truck. I must have broken the old ones with heat and 20 below...torqued in with my giant five foot niner sasquatchikanaina hands.
just kidding. I did install in frigid weather. finger tip numbing weather. I knew once heat came back around, something was going to pop. ..and it did. At the plastics.
I may be able to keep the shiny headlamps themselves, but the whole backing plate and little things i haven't deciphered are busted. Held by wire.

NHTSA could care less about those things..
but hey.

part of the fun is shopping.... like for new underwear.
this will drop another 100 in headlamps, but complete with LED..for the low beam side especially.

I noticed the biggest difference today between the 2016 aluminum 5.3, and the old iron 5.0...
the valve timing on cold starts leaves less cold smoke on the 16. This evening my truck cold smoking went over 2 cars and his truck...the fell down into the low part of the yard, and went down the road, and then...

Very audible, locomotive or boat engine sound. Heavy air, wet... the iron engine is my favorite. I also noticed the full heat matches the gauge in the iron truck, and you get a lot more of it ,a lot sooner.

I am cringing at the thought GM made a giant subaru version of a v8...someone out there thinks its frieburgers hot rod desert everywhere.
future will tell. Dad's truck is still less than 750 miles. the carbon dum dum will make it quite large once it gets it. Still has to earn that very pansy aluminum heat...as it gives it all away....


got the sticker in the mail. staying alive with a 305.

low grade, cheap, found a tear in it. will think of something beyond the clear packing tape to make it stronger.
if to grow up with these labels, one could often find just a silverish looking blur on carb air cleaners, if legible at all.

will think of something.
There s only one misnomer about this truck, especially at highway cruising.
people assume this model to be slow apparently.

like climbing hills, cruise on 80. I lost count someone using the draft behind this, creeping out into the left lane assuming to just go by.
it hangs with the modern flow...no slow downs anywhere.
patience of a trucker, let the little engines go by in the sprites of look at me, I am fast, just to go by it again a few miles down the road without altering my set stable path on the cruise.

I first encountered this with a 1984 monte carlo SS. Still peculiar today.. peoples interpretation, as we are all animals out there, with labels.
I wanted the 305 label to show this is not even the big engine truck...
..and still going by you.

[Barry Donovan]

wheel spacers

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my 96 is nowhere as bad as some of the k2500 from 88-95...
but it is still offtracked.
the back is skinnier than the front.

adding spacer brings a true trac, and 4x4 may suffer some on mud. the offset is actually a good thing for offroad.

I am more a corvetter than offroader..
hubcentric. I almost forgot that little tidbit.
>121mph is no laughing matter.
Gotta have centric on my 3400 pound 112S tires.


and this will also strain front camber to be negative more often.

these are 1.5 inch
eyeballing 2 inch as 2 big, and 1 inch as not quite enough..but 1 inch may be correct.

I'll go a little fatter than my good eye, and get 1.5 inch.
a slight offtrack is not a bad thing anyway.
the 10.5 inch wide factory tires will still be in the wells.
No inspection problems.

a trick for ebay..
find the unknown product with lots of sales, like "150 sold" etc.
I have not lost yet.

edit:
looking things over this morning, as I ebay shop in the dark. This truck could do 2.5 inch spacers on factory wheels. Rather funny. I did square up the back with ten times the strength of oem.. I have written to notice "the back is fat now" after the steel chores.
So. I have the 1.5 inch on the way... a little more lever.

I can only wait for the headlamp shells to show up to determine what LED I want. The new ones are supposedly engineered to take H1 (a lot easier for aftermarket HID).. will wait and see. The original has a 90 degree bend for the 9006 (hb4?). It was especially tight.



slapped the ripped 305 ebay sticker on last night, 44F.. a short dry spell was in place. Ended up snowing, rapid melt this morning.

The thing I have for low corner stickers is an old steel buzzing theory. The cab corners last longer with window stickers.
Held up to the first day of a season that has not even gone to hell yet.. but wet and sloppy enough. I hope it stays there.

you can also see my trucks rear wheel tucked way in from here.
big booty gmc.

headed for some icy spots, low of 27F.
4x4 hi mode at any speed, just pressed in the clutch. Hardly a whine or any indication.. a little stiffer. The front end pulls the back around the corners. The spacers will help that. That is the "lever" feeling I refer to. A whiff of motor oil in reverse and 4x4 mode. Not sure what is in the transfer. It was full enough to see a dribble on the first 90F days after buying. My G body cars did this too, november to january. oil smell in reverse. Never used any more than they always did. Never deciphered it. Oil splash to the front of the pan, and pcv. Old fuel pump boss is not to be exactly sealed either.

Speaking of heater.. at 34F and the cold rain gone by, north wind setting in. The heater needs to be incredible. This weather is like 10 below after sundown..the btu levels needed to feel human again. Love this truck for that. 10 below and dry seems easier going.

4x4 lo test when wheels were straight. A five speed and 4x4 lo.. it is the legend you may have heard or seen. Needs a disciplined set of feet at the helm...and can't turn wheels too hard on the lockup.

[Barry Donovan]

preview of my broview LED

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funny name for headlamps.
So I bought them.


BroView.
hahaha.



I know to go with 6000k (white) and not much greater than 3200LM..
these are 4000.
I want no fans, and an exact fit for my 1996 odd 90 degree bend of weirdo for the hb4 low beam side.
the flexible heatsink works.

the chip istelf is made by Philips. Cree is the only other real maker that I know of.
my subaru uses Cree.. and they are excellent. I simply went too high on the lumens number. Too bright for oncoming traffic.

this should wrap up my LED quest.
I want the high beam as the last old school roasters. There are useful purposes for the black hole with a light in it sometimes.

found this video here, thought the comments were interesting.

I assume my own to be on the second engine. the north and those damn paper filters. I bet it got into the 200k with no problems.
I think the guy mentioned headwork, gasket work done on the sale.

I also found a guru who took an L31 to 300k, still going strong.
the 350 is my most frustrating memories.
on the manual tranny, ramping even harder to another 40-50 horses of slippery curve...
I am still going to avoid it.

bordering 300hp is plenty for me. This one has proven to have more than the 350 automatic.
I also found this has no limiter.. it goes past 5600rpm. There is a hack for 6000, this must have it.
if unfamiliar, that is screaming buckets of bolts for a smallblock. Iron hides no noise.

[Barry Donovan]

nice spacer!

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got these in the mail. over 4.5 pounds a piece, metric, concentric..
t6061
exact fit for my old gmc.
In previous posts I had mentioned my truck has a fat ass for keeping it squared.
This tucked the wheels into the wells noticably..hefty straightline steel widened the bed back to original.

my truck also gained positive camber, an oddity that could only go with enough power, and never loaded a day in its life.
On manual tranny v8 models, the front may be more the 88-95 3/4 ton width, adding to how noticable it is.
the back ends always look like the rear axle width was not enough by factory.
This should do nicely.

I see these on newer trucks, being they were even all around anyway.. just for bigger wheels.
if I am not mistaken, this gmt400 was gm's first lower riding pickups that could take 33 inch without much problems.
12 inch wide etc.. stays in the wells.

I have factory sizing only. Adds to how skinny looking the back is. Big tires to me anyway, the sidewalls. Tread width is 10.5inches already.

[Barry Donovan]

fuse swap and spacers

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installed spacers. 44F today. Last night dipped below all wet. May be the last warm day for months. Hard telling lately.
These being a machinist measure, hub centric.. I knew to pay attention to what this did. They are 4.75 pounds each side, widened 1.5inches x 2
3 inches overall.

not much to notice, it really is a corrector. Brakes feel good, engine throttle more mature. Very smooth. steering a bit heavier..
hit a sweet spot. No regrets on this purchase. Exact fit, snug. Still within the wells. I noticed frame stayed dry in the rain coming home. Siping the water right out of the wells now.
I may empty the back end out, as it feels heavier and planted.

All that with 3 inches total widening, almost ten pounds to the inner rotation.

A backroad ride to millinocket maine, and a highway run back to howland exit. Pouring rain, snow all off to the sides. I spotted a moose and brake checked those behind me. Very smooth ride. Feels big.
I could drive this for days.
The lowest I use my own energy that I can remember, to drive a long time ...and it is a truck. Go figure.

other little things..
CTSY lights last night
kicked open the door, relay would not kick on. Took the 5 amp out, put a 10 in.
Can go no less than ten to gain the relay. 5 amp never blew, just too small to allow amps.
Interesting to find a minimum, experimenting.

VERY wet truck, fog ice and rain for 24 hours. I wanted to run it now, seeing 30.6F on the thermometer. I did not want sticky doors in the morning. Even the interior cloth material on the roof. Condensation.
I love how this conquers itself.
life and death.

windows clearing out, the feeling of heat, crystals on the road of winters hell climbing in.
The thump of an iron v8, a flowmaster letting the cold smoke fly 3 times the length of the truck...
grab another gear and keep whatever RPM I chose.

I do not know as it gets any more incredible, until the 550hp diesels of a class 7 rig.
There is an inbetween models of course, in the pickups..
called a duramax and a powerstroke.. and I sure know why they get the same money as a big rig to buy one.

For now, it is a long running daydream.. my youthful daydreams were adult back then anyway.
Staying alive with an iron 305...and a manual transmission, 4x4.

One more thing to check, I never got to doing...
This may be a 350. All this bragging will be embarrassing if it is not my trusty 305.
That idle thump.. it sure is peculiar.

[Barry Donovan]

heading for frigid

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18F .. 9 pm.
Brrr.

my dad handed me some lucas for gas engines. Upper lube/cleaner.
the injection is smart, but wanted to get some heat going anyway for the cleaner.
Filled up to the 25glns.

had the 70 mile routine today to see family. Gave the spacers a good run up.
incredible extra.
handling, braking, all aspects.. it is such a perfect sweet spot.

measuring track width for the heck of it..
front is 56 inches from inside sipe to inside sipe (beginning of tread hitting ground)
back is 59 inches.
10.5 inches is the tread width according to manufacture.

59+21=80 inches.
The trucks overall width from outside edges in the back is 6 foot 8.
that is big to 3 Hondas side by side...
but it sits tall enough, 99% of people won't notice, as tires are in the wells matching the front.
I love doing the steel chores. All kinds of little rewards.

cruise control to needle buried and then let it have some more on the tach (sorry mr.duramax with 1200 ft lbs) caught up to some speedy ground hogs that passed by until tail lights were little.
that didn't take long to catch up. I shut off cruise and coasted the last bit of catch up for a quarter mile...maybe half..
throttle off.

Smooth as glass and cold as hell.
100+ mph.

passed my test.

I will check the oil of course, not sure these cold temps will keep all the seals going that fast.
Old routines.
love the iron engines.
I am sure that Lucas stuff got its routine as well. Ready for the coma called winter.



945pm.. down to 17.
I bet we see single digits.


edit:
a factor in sharing my babbles is how many times we become cold spot of all lower 48.
my town hit 11.1


hairy frost.
it cools off so fast one can smell floor tiles breaking away from the plywood floor which breaks away from itself adding even more glue.
I have to keep a house fan and above stove fan running 24/7 to stay alive.
I also have an industrial humidifier on my list of things to do..
for now I use a bath tub and a pan of water under the fridge with disinfectant.

[Barry Donovan]

new lights

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I had this all apart already, did not take photos..
just put it back together.
I am usually sharing details.


very hefty compared to original. the low beam h1 has a metal backing, found other little metal pieces in the mix.
this shipped with 55w H1, a conversion from the weirdo lamps these trucks shipped with.
that's a big lamp for low beam.

I figured I'd wait until the H1 LED shows up before tackling.
I also tried the halo DRL via a 1 amp 12v gadget, lit right up.

the plastic seems more the real aBS like stuff, the kind where you flex it all around with no breakage.
the last ones I got fell apart... very hard.

The way the projector side is setup, it could do any lumens. I found written beyond 4200 is ok. You find those as 9000 on ebay (they add 2 together)
so, that is a future thought.

So improving in more than 2 ways.
Will show and tell.

box said made in china, but somebody was proud to make this. Looked good upon inspecting.

it says "freburg" on the lense... and maybe euro safety numbers. DOT legal or else ebay has to ban them.




not wanting 55w incandescent tig welding dump attractors..
I am waiting for these exactly standard 3200 LM before putting together.
They are indeed H1. the new lenses are swapped low beam for H1, not HB3 as factory did.

This leaves me with two 9006 LED that may never get to be used.. will hang onto them anyway.

some advice from the chinese seller. (I got a heads up almost ten years ago)

Lately, many stores (EVEN SOME BIG CAR LIGHT STORES) began to advocate their LEDs as 100W !! 200W !! The brightness is 10000LM !! 15000LM !!! 20000LM!!! As honest seller, I tell U : these are rediculous !! impossible !! If really that large power, i can tell U your car will be bursted into the sky, which will be too hot !!

So pls donot trust that rubbish Chinese sellers. They often brag big words and sell rubbish to U.

Trust me, 6000 Lm -7000 Lm has been very bright than your original halogen bulbs and that is the upper limit of heat keep away your car set from fire ! And we have confidence to make sure these LED headlights are brighter than most other styles from ebay !!

3200lumens is the factory standard. My truck dips way below that on 30w incandescent, just add rain or fog. all my cars since I was a kid did the same thing, including tractor trailers.

LED stops the nonsense, even self regulates. Same brightness at all times.

[Barry Donovan]

favorite photo with my truck in it

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year isn't over, but rummaged through all my photos...they'll go to a backup drive, and I start another year over fresh.
A photo I got in march of this year.
boring choice..but if I get a photo, even goofy..and declare it prophetic. I keep it.

I had joked that was trump waving at us. I was actually getting a photo of the two trucks, size comparison.


anyway,
year winding out into the darkest days before the solstice...
will share the LED headlight chore. I have routine miles with no lights at all lining the roads. Very dark.

Trump recently made a big move interacting with asia/japan, bank related.
I bet those LED lights I search through on ebay will be at every parts store in america by end of 2017...
...as incandescent goes the way of the doe doe bird.

I was at an asian restaurant to declare my prediction, joking.

[Barry Donovan]

headlamps continued

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got the broview 9006 low beam, thought I could not use them as the new lenses were made to be H1 on the lowbeam.





tried it in the high beam side..
took a rubber seal off and it snug fit snapped right in, even locked. I then got a look at the plug.. no tabs.
universal for either the 9005 or 9006 from the truck side of feeding power.
that made my day. The other difference is, tip is not exposed like the old hi beams. At 4000 lumens, who cares. Still perfect for high beam.

so, I made use of lights I thought would have to sit in the box.

Awaiting the H1 LED now to finish it. Low beam is 3200LM (standard laws)

So the entire truck is headed for LED, except for two dummy lights.. they needed the tiny conventional bulbs they shipped with.
I think ABS was one.

I lost count of the bulbs, it is more than 40.

fog and 26F.
that is a killer for as long as I can remember. Seeing the lows are going to get pretty cold, I warmed up the truck this evening. Roads wet, people going slow, icing over...sand trucks sanding.
Found an old ford sitting in the middle of the road dead.
yes that is funny.
Found on road dead, and I mean old. It was no newer than 1980.
but he had a helper, so I kept chugging down the road.

blippity blips are down to about a 1000 rpm band, 500-1500rpm and then it slowly goes away after thermostat opens...about ten minutes after opening. I knew then it was either a gadget at throttle, or lighting...that was almost 2 years ago now. As long as I can remember, all my vehicles did this if to sit in the weird moisture. I knew to run it now..good call.
I remember stating last year.. its got plenty of diodes in the lighting. Still the same. That is what it is running very good on now. This will be the last of it, the most of it... the headlamps. The final conquering.

..I realized the truck is a different beefier sound. I got to looking back at the muffler install. That was only April of this year. No wonder it is new to me.. have not had it in a whole year yet. I LOVE the sound of this running, this weather is a long history of tragedy.

I still need to check for 350 instead of 305... it is just too damn big to believe.

A tip for the northbound.. make sure all sensors are snug, and plugins. I concluded the truck is something that needs full warm at the throttle body, and the headlamps are monsters. Nothing worked completely until dropping amps at the lighting. A direct fix was swapping over to LED. Narrowed it right down to 1000 rpm band when cold only for the blips. Instant big truck. Cold starts are very impressive.

Looking forward to the headlamps...that should do it nicely.

more light stuff. I had first learned of changes in 2002 or so... and was to stay tuned.

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 			[TD]55[/TD]
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 			[TD]65[/TD]
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 			[TD]65[/TD]
 			[TD]2350[/TD]
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 			[TD]H1[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1550[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE axial filament. Headlamps, fog lamps, drive lamps...[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H1 +30[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1700[/TD]
 			[TD]High Efficacy[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H1 +50[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1795[/TD]
 			[TD]Ultra High Efficacy[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H1 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]100[/TD]
 			[TD]2600[/TD]
 			[TD]Can damage plastic lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H2[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1800[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE. Axial filament. Fog and drive lamps, some high beams.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H2 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]100[/TD]
 			[TD]2150[/TD]
 			[TD]Can damage plastic lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H3[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1450[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE. Transverse filament. Fog and drive lamps.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H3 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]100[/TD]
 			[TD]2300[/TD]
 			[TD]Can damage plastic lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]R2[/TD]
 			[TD]45/40[/TD]
 			[TD]860/675[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE non-halogen. Axial filaments, shielded lowbeam filamnent.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]R2 Halogen[/TD]
 			[TD]45/40[/TD]
 			[TD]1030/740[/TD]
 			[TD]Halogen version of R2[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H4[/TD]
 			[TD]60/55[/TD]
 			[TD]1650/1000[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE. Axial filaments, shielded lowbeam filamnent.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H4 +30[/TD]
 			[TD]60/55[/TD]
 			[TD]1700/1075[/TD]
 			[TD]High Efficacy[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H4 +50[/TD]
 			[TD]60/55[/TD]
 			[TD]1895/1148[/TD]
 			[TD]Ultra High Efficacy[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]9003/HB2[/TD]
 			[TD]60/55[/TD]
 			[TD]1590/980[/TD]
 			[TD]DOT-marked version of H4[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H4 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]70/65[/TD]
 			[TD]2000/1350[/TD]
 			[TD]Ultra high efficacy, compatible w/most stock wiring[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H4 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]85/80[/TD]
 			[TD]2400/1750[/TD]
 			[TD]Ultra high efficacy[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H4 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]100/90[/TD]
 			[TD]2400/1620[/TD]
 			[TD]Can damage plastic lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H4 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]130/100[/TD]
 			[TD]3250/1820[/TD]
 			[TD]Damages most plastic lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H7[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1450[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H7 +50[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1550[/TD]
 			[TD]Ultra high efficacy, short life[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H7 Rallye[/TD]
 			[TD]65[/TD]
 			[TD]2100[/TD]
 			[TD]Race/special service[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H8[/TD]
 			[TD]35[/TD]
 			[TD]712[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE. Primarily in fog lamps.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H9[/TD]
 			[TD]65[/TD]
 			[TD]2100[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]H11[/TD]
 			[TD]55[/TD]
 			[TD]1250[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]H13(informally sometimes called "9008")[/TD]
 			[TD]65/55[/TD]
 			[TD]1700/1100[/TD]
 			[TD]SAE/ECE Axial filaments.[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]D2S[/TD]
 			[TD]35[/TD]
 			[TD]3200[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE AC arc-discharge (HID) projector lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]D2R[/TD]
 			[TD]35[/TD]
 			[TD]2800[/TD]
 			[TD]ECE/SAE AC arc-discharge (HID) reflector lamps[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]9500[/TD]
 			[TD]35[/TD]
 			[TD]2850[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI DC arc-discharge(Sylvania Luminarc)[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]880[/TD]
 			[TD]27[/TD]
 			[TD]540[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" straight base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]881[/TD]
 			[TD]27[/TD]
 			[TD]540[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" 90-deg base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]884[/TD]
 			[TD]27[/TD]
 			[TD]540[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "drive" straight base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]885[/TD]
 			[TD]50[/TD]
 			[TD]1255[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "drive" straight base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]886[/TD]
 			[TD]50[/TD]
 			[TD]1255[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "drive" 90-deg base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]889[/TD]
 			[TD]27[/TD]
 			[TD]540[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "drive" 90-deg base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]893[/TD]
 			[TD]37.5[/TD]
 			[TD]940[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" straight base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]896[/TD]
 			[TD]37.5[/TD]
 			[TD]940[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" 90-deg base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR="bgcolor: white"]
 			[TD]890[/TD]
 			[TD]27[/TD]
 			[TD]540[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" straight base[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 		[TR]
 			[TD]892[/TD]
 			[TD]16[/TD]
 			[TD]350[/TD]
 			[TD]ANSI cosmetic toy "fog" sick joke[/TD]
 		[/TR]
 	 [/TABLE]

the 3200 number I got was some new HID lamp called D2S, brightest allowed by law, and they could melt plastic lenses. Was that the late 90s?

about 5 years went by before diving in.
3000 lumens is on the old box for my subaru LED, and they are simply outrageous. Given the 15 pound real chrome, all glass lense, it must have added to it.

So, 3000 is still huge today.
A cool fact, LED adds lumens where lights were hopeless.
the brightest lights found in a 88-02 gmc were 1850... and that was if you went 65watts.
those were those slim 9005-9006
add a maine fog storm at night, better off staying home.
I kept big ones in my new chinese lenses, and they broke everywhere due to heat.
wll get some photos of the self destruction.


I am now at 1 amp for a 4000 lumens highbeam.
3200 is the low, narrowed way down to projection. Should be plenty safe.

I also found a chart that claims 6000k (pure white- like oem tries to give) is limited to 3200, as they cannot go any further. So there ya have it.
Another way to decipher hoaxes.
This helped me decipher my subaru too, as those look like a dwarf star blue... those go all the way to 10000 lumens. I assume mislabeled box, or some swap along the way to my house.
I can seriously see entire mile long straight aways in maines I-95 at night.

[Barry Donovan]

updated lighting.
well worth the install.

I made no use for the halo yet.. but might. I think it is a temporary fad, and will go away. Left it unhooked.
Adjusted twice , got it right.. away it goes.

This is low beam. High beam is much smarter as well, not outrageous.
I noticed in the design, there is a cutoff like a notch for oncoming traffic, laving a shadow for them. this is why projectors are the new standard. They guide exactly where light is useful.

Upon adjusting I noticed exact lines and overlaps to guide the adjustment on the wall.
Now that is precision.

Flicking through auto seek, I stopped at this song realizing the radio was twice as loud.
the old coon cat urine yellow tungsten iron power amp sucking dump eating ignition coil robbing radio thiefers are done.

I am not a fan of this song, but it sounded good anyway.

I am a fan of this one.
when I do not seek a song, and it just plays. the value is simply there.
I suppose it is like good lights in the dark.



A low of 3.6F, winter is here. this photo is 10.9F in the morning sun.
truck sat all night.

see that round circle of melt on the roof?


two map lights are tungsten...
the last two bulbs in the whole truck.

this is the last preload of brain clappers that need to go.
I left one light on all night but that is not the point.

When I was a teen here, the only thing breaking the cold is trucks.. confident sounds.
Everything is looking up to them for towing, tools, advice, a heater, directions and even policing.
Always wanted one in the modern realm.
This one fits the bill.

The only drawback is many underestimations for the body style. Not many know these as fast.
If I have to shift into fifth at 121mph one more freakin time...

anyway, that is the maturity of what goes missing. I am back to my old guy with a truck mode.. quite content at what goes by.
This one looks menacing with those precision lamps up front. I really like the black with the bright white, almost arctic looking lights.


here is my local forecast.
I predicted swampy, big moisture for this season.
just might happen.

The last big snow year for me, I was in the city.
Trucking with dad, we encountered ten foot piles and drifting.
as it turns out , it was a record year all the way to bangor.
bangor got 9 feet
up north could find 10 and even 12.
2008.