If I look at the xenon bulb, it has a very large gray portion. If you where to remove this gray portion, would the bulb be alot brighter. That is to say that you would not break the bulb trying.
I would think that the gray portion(the blacked out portion) would block alot of the light?? Is the gray portion for beam control? I would think the light fixture would control that??
Has anyone tried this out? Or is there a different xenon bulb on the market that doesn't have the black out portion, legal or otherwise?

 

Are you really willing to take that $1000 risk and to take a little grey piece off of already bright headlights??

If you break it, that will not be under warrantly.. I'm sure it isn't cheap to replace either..

Why fock with it??

 

Yeah what he said^

Anyway take a look at this, it'l somehow explain to you that this one is for our style light's. Not projector style but reflector style.

 

Oops forgot hte link, sorry

http://www.sylvania.com/prodinfo/auto/pdfs/d2sd2r.pdf

 

I am not talking about the whole system just the bulbs. I wonder if the gray stripe causes some of the light to be blocked and therefore lost? If the gray strip taks up 20% of the bulb, do you lose 20% light?

I think it may be there for beam control?