best light bulbs

What are the best and brightest light headlight bulbs I can buy at my local parts store. Auto zone, advance auto, Orielly's..etc.

 

hey i have used silver star from sylvania in all my vehicles and they look and perform great
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/HighPerformance/Silverstar/

 

i have those sylvania silverstars on my truck, there alright. definitely brighter then stock but nothing amazing like HIDs. if your looking at local part stores the silverstars would be your best bet.

 

harbor freight has some cool blue bright headlights

 

These 3 words should never be put in a sentence. Blue actually means less light. The bluer you go the less light output you're going to have. To the OP, if you're set on only buying bulbs from your local store then get the SilverStars, won't last long though. Are you afraid of purchasing the bulbs online?

 

No, I am not afraid to purchase online, Just locally I would be able to go get them now instead of waiting. I am really interested in some HID's. I just don't know enough about them or what even is involved to convert over. Any info on this would be helpful.

 

I'm looking for replacement bulbs as well. After some reading in the internet, I decided to go for Philips Vision Plus instead of Sylvania Silverstar.

You can find Vision plus for $12 to $26 in ebay. The SS cost $39 in Autozone.

 

HIDs are the way to go. check out ddmtuning or a member on here named slimcubby does a group buy about once a month. i have never done an installation but it seems pretty easy. just a simple plug and play install.

 

Not really. Kelvin is the scientific standard measure of temperature - it's the temperature in Celcius, plus 273. So, 4000K is really 4000 degrees (ish) centigrade... pretty damned hot. The temp of the sun (at the surface, not center) is about 6000 degrees centigrade, which is 6273 Kelvin.

And higher does NOT equal sun like. 4000-6000 K is in the "white" range. Higher than that startes to go blue, and 10-13K is something in the purple range. Under about 4000K is orange/red/yellow ranges.

 

Holy crap, so it is.

Well, maybe they've appropriated the term "kelvin" for their own industry use?

Anyway, from Wikipedia (look up "Kelvin" and the temperature definition comes first):
"The kelvin is often used in the measure of the color temperature of light sources. Color temperature is based upon the principle that a black body radiator emits light whose color depends on the temperature of the radiator. Black bodies with temperatures below about 4000 K appear reddish whereas those above about 7500 K appear bluish. Color temperature is important in the fields of image projection and photography where a color temperature of approximately 5600 K is required to match "daylight" film emulsions. In astronomy, the stellar classification of stars and their place on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are based, in part, upon their surface temperature, known as effective temperature. The photosphere of the Sun, for instance, has an effective temperature of 5778 K."

Guess Kelvin means a lot of things. Glad to see that I was right, if in the wrong context.