- We're standing 50 yards away from a hard 90 degree turn, with a sheer cliff face on the other side. (eerie growing sound) Now my headlights are on and I can't see the turn at all. Like at all. This is one of my favorite roads to drive, but it keeps trying to kill me. 'Cause I keep almost driving off the edge. 'Cause my dang headlights are so bad. So what do I do? On a road like that
and really on any road? I need to be able to see way further ahead than that to be safe. And as the Miata keeps getting faster, I need to be able to
see even further ahead. So these 1994 headlights just
aren't cutting it anymore. That's why today we're gonna install a new set of headlights
with some new wiring, and then we'll go back to that Canyon road and see just how much
earlier I can see that turn. I'm Zach and this is Money Pit. Let there be light. (cool catchy music) - You ever think dang, I
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look when you buy one. (electronic beep) (smooth music) - All right, so here's the deal. Me, I'm a little bit of a grandpa. You see, I like the way
these headlights look. I like how 1994 they are. The problem is they're just
not very good at their job. Currently I can only see about
10 Miata lengths ahead of me. And that's just not enough. But the problem is I
don't wanna add 10 LED , twin projector, dual HID, crazy headlights to the
front of this thing. I just don't think it fits the car. I wanna keep them how they look, but I need them to be better at their job. I need to be able to see at least 20 Miata lengths ahead of me. Can we double our light output? Maybe? I think so. - [Eddie] You think double? - Well, so here's the deal. These low beams, 35 Watts. Our new bulbs, low beams, 80 Watts. That's over double the power baby. - [Eddy] Literally. - That is, yeah, literally
over double the power. So I'm hoping that we can
double our light output. - [Eddy] I guess we'll see. - That's right. (smooth music) This might be one of the
only tools I need today. That can't be true. - [Eddie] Impossible. - All right, so before we
can go making any sweet and awesome lighting upgrades, we got to get the old stock stuff out. (relaxing music) Ooh. Kind of looks like Terminator. Like after his face has been
like all burnt off, you know. These are some old school headlights. This is how it was back in the day. Like headlights were like
one of six shapes basically, circles of a different size or rectangles of a different size. And you just replaced
the entire headlight, anytime a bulb went out. The bulb is the headlight. You'll see what I mean. And that's it. I mean, these things are
like five or six bucks. And you just replace the whole
thing, anytime they go out. At 12 volts, it pulls 65 and 35 Watts. That's the high beam
and the low beam rating. So the low beams are 35
Watts with these bulbs and the high beams are 65. But when I say Watt, what do I even mean by that? I mean, we all know that it's like how light bulbs are rated, but what is it? Well, a Watt is just a
measurement of power, of electrical power. It's just like horsepower. In fact, you can directly
convert Watts to horsepower. I think there's 746 Watts per horsepower. So actually, let's see here. What would make 120
horsepower times 746 Watts? A Miata makes 89,520 Watts of power. Whoa. That's pretty sick. So we're also gonna do some wiring today. We're gonna wire up some
big fat wires, some relays. Oh, it's gonna be great. And we're converting from
these old sealed beam bulbs to a similar looking bulb that actually allows us
to swap out regular bulbs so that it's not just this. Let's go take a look at what we've got. (upbeat music) Here are our headlight housings. Looks a little updated, but doesn't look too
fancy, not too flashy, but the big trick to these things is that they let us install
a regular H4 bulb. Because of these I was able to get these HELLA high wattage, 80 watt, low beam, hundred watt high beam bulbs. These puppies are gonna
pull down some power. But to be able to use these, I need the headlight conversions. And I also need some chunkier wiring. HELLA also makes this really
nice, really easy to install, I think, wiring harness,
that should be just a, just a treat to install
and make these headlights as powerful as they're intended to be without melting down
any of the stock wiring or anything like that. Trying to keep this Miata, not on fire. So everything seems great. Now let's see if everything I said is true and this install goes as smoothly as I'm hoping it's gonna. What up ogre? All right, so we're about
ready to install our harness and it's gonna be pretty easy. It's pretty much plug and play. Basically the stock headlights, those sealed beams use an H4 base, which looks just like this. So this is gonna plug into
our stock headlight harness, and it's gonna use that
to trigger our relays. So when we turn on our headlights, it'll power up the
small side of our relay, which is a small little electromagnet. We send power to it, that electromagnet causes
a little magnetic field and it forces a switch to flip. That switch that flips, is the switch that'll power up our
actual new headlights. So our stock headlight circuit is just gonna operate the
small side of the relay, just gonna power up that little magnet. So the larger side of the relay, the side that actually
powers up our headlights is gonna take power through
these two wires right here. So I'll put these to 12 volts probably down on the alternator. And then we've got a ground, two wires right here
and here, no big deal. It should be honestly quite easy. (upbeat drumming music) Gorgeous. All right, so now we've got to get power to the circuit and we get
a ground to the circuit. And get these things, you know, up to the headlight areas. So I'm just looking for
a good spot to ground. We've got two grounds
and we need to find a one at each headlight connector. So I'm probably gonna try
and get it over in here and just go right here on the side. I think that'll be pretty good. Okay, so this is ready to plug into this. So here's our stock
connector, the original one, and this should plug right in, heeha baby. We can tuck that back in there. Now this side's ready
for our new headlight and a bulb, sweet. Now I just got to do the
same to the other side, route the wires over there
and we're in business. (upbeat drumming music) So last think we got to
do is install our harness. It's pretty much installed. It's physically in place, but now we just need to get 12 volts so we can actually turn on the headlights. So I'm gonna put this
down in the same place where we powered our fan from, from the terminal on
top of the alternator. (upbeat drumming music) We've got the wiring harness powered up. So we're ready to actually
put in our headlights now. Now you wanna be careful
not to touch the glass as these bulbs get really hot. And the grease from your
fingers can like get super, extra hot and blow the bulb apart. Okay, that was easy. Yeah, not bad. All right, okay. Oh, we don't wanna forget a dust boot. It's especially important
'cause the Miata has flip ups. So the headlights spend a lot
of time upside down like this. So I don't have a dust boot. All right, plug this puppy in. (relaxing music) All right, well, it needs wiped down, but she's in there. Now let's do the other side. (relaxing music) Nice. All right, so now it's
time to see if all my hard, hard work has been worth it. Or if my nighttime driving
just gotten more dangerous. Hey, they work. Let there be light indeed. (relaxing music) Whoa. That's bright. All right, sweet, the headlights work. We did it, and it wasn't that hard. How about that? Now, the next thing we
need to do, is align them. So we really need to wait
for the sun to go down. 'Cause it's kind of hard
to do during the day. So we'll wait for the sun to go down. Then we'll go align these things. (electronic beep) Also, if you guys want
these old headlights, I just took out. I am gonna give them away
along with a $100 gift card randomly to one of you guys. I don't really know what
you'll do with them. I dunno, turn 'em into a flashlight. Break my heart, throw them
away, keep the gift card. But I'll put a link in the description and leave it open until next week. So you got a week. It's a hundred dollar
gift card, two headlights. (electronic beep) (relaxing music) Okay, night has finally fallen so we can align our headlights. So we're gonna mark some
spots up on the wall, up there real quick. We're gonna drive up, get our nose real close to the wall. Mark where our headlights are at. Mark what we want to aim for, get... - [Eddie] Wait, we're
about to get kicked out. - Oh yeah, yeah, it looks like it. How's it going?
- You good? Yeah, yeah, I'm just
measuring my headlights if you don't mind.
- Okay, okay cool. - Yeah, yeah.
- Almost like, are they tagging on the wall?
(laughing) - No man.
- Thanks. Just aligning headlights, thanks. - [Eddie] Bro, you were like to cool. You were so calm man. - Dude, I told him I was
like, I'm not leaving. I was like, not going anywhere. You find somebody else. All right, where was I? And then we'll back the car
up, make our adjustments. And that should be about it. Okay, now we're gonna keep
the car running so that, you know, the battery doesn't die. And when we look at the wall, we can see already that our headlights are aimed a little bit high. So we're gonna start by dropping them down and then we'll center
them up a little bit, but it's clearly a good
thing we're aligning them. All right, so there are
just two adjustment screws on each of these headlights. There's one at the bottom that controls the up and down tilt. And there's one on the side that controls the left and
right aim of the headlight. So we're gonna start by
adjusting the bottom. It's gonna screw it in and we should see that headlight on the
wall start to drop down. So we're just looking to
touch the bottom of the tape with the cutoff of the light. The cutoff being the
line from where it goes from bright to dark again. So you can see, we're just touching the
bottom of the piece of tape. So in terms of height, that headlight is pretty well aligned now. So I'm gonna go do the other one. (relaxing music) Okay, so that height looks pretty good. Now I'm gonna mess with the left and right just a little bit like on
this passenger side one. I wanna bring it in a little bit more to come a little closer to hitting our X where the center of the headlight was. I'm okay with it pointing off
to the right a little bit. Helps light up the side of the
road, possible pedestrians, you know, curves on roads. So I'm okay with it hanging
off to the right a touch, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna
center it up a little. (relaxing music) Okay, now let's look at the
driver's side headlight again, in terms of the left and right alignment. This one looks pretty good. Probably, I'm just not
even gonna mess with it. Left and right, that looks fine to me. So we're gonna call this good. Now I will say for some cars, there are certain specs for this and you can't do all cars just up against a wall like this. You can get away with
most, but with some cars, there are specific specs that you're gonna wanna look up. But for a car like the Miata, this kind of method is fine. And honestly, I'm just gonna
keep a screwdriver in the car for about a week and make any tweaks if I feel like they need to be made. All right, so now that our
headlights are all aligned, let's check our super
scientific light measurement and see how many Miata's
ahead of me I can see, now. - [Eddie] Some of the drones. (bubbles popping) (cheering) (upbeat music) - And we're back on one of
my favorite driving roads to see whether or not I can see one of the most dangerous corners with my new, brighter headlights. We're gonna point this thing at the same corner we did last time and see whether or not
we can see it any better. Let's go point these lights. (upbeat music) All right, so we are at the bottom of one of my favorite Canyon roads and we made it, because I can see. These new headlights are fantastic. It's like a huge box of light just getting flooded all over the road. It's honestly amazing. I can see both edges of the road. I can see the lines on the road. I can see what's coming. And that's only with the low beams when you flick the high beams. Oh my God, it's amazing. It's it's made this car is so
much better to drive at night. So I'm gonna go hit this
road again a few times and I'll see you guys next week. Thank you so much for watching,
we really appreciate it. Don't forget to follow me
on Instagram @zachjobe. Follow Donut @donutmedia. And I'll see you cool cats, next week. (upbeat music)
