I really want a better set of headlights on my 83 and was wondering if anyone has any input in performance of hella hid kits or the h4 kits on eBay. Are the hella kits plug and play or do I need to make or modify a harness? I'm a little sketchy about trying an eBay generic kit, they look cheap for the most part and I can't seem to get any info from sellers about compatibility.

Before someone yells to do a forum search, I'm on my phone and I can't go through 5 million pages of peoples build threads to find out that they mentioned it and never did it.

 

I'm not yelling, but there are several people on here who have done the Hella upgrade with the upgrade harness or even just the autopal ecodes and loved it. When you get home or on a computer, dig a little deeper.

 

Agree with vital22re
Search.

Summary:

Hella's and HID's are more efficient than stock.
Hella's would be less expensive than HID's.
Those who use HID's without proper projectors are inconsiderate!. I wish cops pulled those people over.
Hella's are more expensive but have better beam pattern than AutoPals

Even if you upgrade to better bulbs/housings, headlight circuit is still flawed with lots of voltage drops. Conversion harness is the simple, robust upgrade. Search my build thread.

Conversion harness and upgrade housings are usually plug & play.

-RAD

 

Sweet, I remember reading about the conversion harness on 4crawler's webpages a while back. My laptop is toast, so unfortunately, it's phone or nothing right now. With the Hellas I will still retain high and low beams also right?

 

If wired similar to first-gen 4Runner like this, yes. Plug and play