I am trying to hook up my 55w ballasts I have to take the place of the 35w stock ballasts. What my question is, how can I wire the stock D2R/S harness to the 565w aftermarket ballast? The stock harness has 3 wires that come out of the stock ballast to the bulb, but the aftermarket ballast only requires 2 wires. Which ones do I use? Has anyone done this or can point me in the right direction. I tried searching, but came up with nothing. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Might have to get an external wiring harness... i'm not sure. What year Z?

Glad someone is finally trying the 55W i've been thinking about it. Can you take pics of the install?

 

It's a 2003 Track Edition. I have another car that I retro'd some 55w and some TSX projectors, but those D2S adapters only use 2 wires (red and black), whereas the 350z adapters use 3 wires (Yellow, Pink and Brown) any one have any ideas as to what the power and ground would be on this?

 

Well I just realized that they the ignitors so I don't think I am going to be able to use them unless someone has some ideas maybe

 

they make an adapter for the D2 bulbs and aftermarket ballast, like for ppl whose oem kits fail and want to buy an aftermarket kit, im not sure what site you can order it from but keep seaching around... i think there are some on ebay when you seach D2S or D2R
GL

 

Does the connector that connects to the factory ballast looks like this? Maybe just splice the wire to connect to aftermarket ballast? I would bypass the OEM ballast and just use the power source wires. That's what I would do..

 

This is the link that I found that picture from. This guy is using 350z OEM HID to conevert to H4.

http://www.hachiroku.net/forums/showthread.php?t=700

 

I was wondering when someone was going to swap out the OEM ballasts for some 55w ballasts.

Here's the deal. The OEM ballast uses an ignitor, that goes directly on the end of the bulb.

Aftermarket ballast can work the same way, OR, they may have the ignitor built into the ballast.

Either way, you will completely do away with the OEM ballast and ignitor.

IIRC, the OEM ballast just has 2 wires that lead into it from the vehicle harness, a power and a ground. If there are 3 wires, then you need to pull out the test light and figure out which is which. Pretty easy to do.

Aftermarket ballasts tend to use AMP connectors to connect to aftermarket bulbs. What you will be doing is connecting an aftermarket ballast (amp) to an OEM D2s or D2r bulb. You will need the adapter for this.


I hope that clears things up a little bit. Now, once you get this installed, take a couple pics of the output. I'm rather curious.

-Tim

 

Factory ballast is seated under the headlight as a part of the seal, so you'd have to leave the ballast in.

The power from the factory harness is 2 wires, one green one black. that's what you use to connect to the power of the new ballast and bulb connector. most new ballasts do not use iqnitors, people mistake the bulb connector to be an iqnitor, regardless the stock bulb connector is uselss now also because the aftermarket ballasts will have its own AMP connectors for its own bulb, your biggest problem is sealing the headlight again after you install the bulbs.