For anyone researching HID's, I'd like to offer my experience with the purchase and install. After reading this and tons of other threads on this forum, I decided to go with the VVME 9007/2 kit @6000K for my 99 GTP. First off, this was to be a Christmas gift for me. I did a buy it now on EBAY for the kit on Dec. 15th for $49. That night I received an email from VVME (ebay seller prettyseller1111 ), telling me that the 9007/2 kit was out of stock, and would I want to wait for it to be stocked, which would be around the 24th, or cancel the order. They also said that if I waited, they would throw in a wiring harness for free to make up for the out-of-stock problem delaying my order (the 9007/2 I ordered did not include the wiring harness) . Since I did not want to wait, I asked them if they had the 9007/3 in stock. They replied that they did have that one, and they would give it to me for $72 (they list the 9007/3 kit for $79 on EBAY.) They quickly cancelled the existing 9007/2 order, refunded my PayPal, and sent me the tracking number for the 9007/3 after I PayPaled the $72. It shipped from Beijing and three days later it arrived in Knoxville, where I live, so I had it for Christmas. All in all great customer service, they replied to my emails quickly and IMHO did their best to make me a happy customer.
I finally got to install the kit today. It took me about 2 hours all told. The install was fairly straight forward, FYI you need to have a ground connection for each bulb, unless you want to splice in extra line. I used the front most fender bolt along the hood seam on each side for the ground. To connect to the positive side of the battery, I spliced in some extra line and connected to the big nut that sits on top of the fuse box on the pass. side wheel well, as I wouldn't have been able to reach that nut with the length of line provided. I ran the wiring harness in the space in front of the condenser, where the exsiting headlight wiring runs, and tie wrapped them to each other. Another FYI, you only have one connection to make to the existing bulbs socket, you can leave the other one disconnected. The relay and the main trunk of the wiring harness tucked in easily in front of the battery behind the right side lamp assembly. The slim ballasts were mounted on each side directly under the outer most tab that the headlight assembly inserts into, and they do not interfere at all with getting the assembly back on. The ballasts come with three mounting holes, I drilled a small hole into the sheet metal and screwed them in. I could only get my drill to do one of the holes, the other two I couldn't get at because the drill I have was too big to fit in the space of the headlight assembly opening. Tomorrow I'm going to tie wrap them in so they are nice and snug.
I read in this thread about BackInBlacks wiring mod, (thanks for the great write up), and yes, I needed to do it. In low beam setting, my dash hi-beam light was on but dim, when I flipped to the high-beam setting, nothing changed with the headlights, but the dash indicator would be fully lit, and my fogs would not come on in either setting. After the BIB mod, everything worked as it should, and the hi-beam indicator went out when I had the low's on.
I'm very happy with the light output, it is easily three times as bright as the halogens used to be, and this is the 35W kit, not the 55W. The bulbs I have are the retractors, but the hi-beams do what they are supposed to do, and that's illuminate further down the road. All in all I'm very happy with them, there are alot of dark roads here in TN, and my visibility is so much better now. One more thing I did get flashed by another car, so I will be adjusting the headlight aiming along with some experimentation with moving the bulbs back 1/10th of an inch like BacklInBlack talks about, but even without doing the 1/10th inch mod, these things work fine.
I hope anyone researching HID's gets use out of my story, and thanks to BackinBlack for the great write up.
