NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Nice I’ll start sampling lol

 

Anyone with a 3rd Gen running OEM halogen assemblies available in the next couple days to meet in Kirkland and test a new Morimoto product? Should only take 20min at most.

 

Does one get to keep said morimotos?

 

I do have some extras, so sure. The outcome may determine if you actually want to use them. Looking for sooner than later on this.

 

@tonered you are closer than I am

 

I am around, but I do have the bike today. I can bring the Taco tomorrow and work near the Beardslee exit.


Thanks, @crashnburn80 and @WrecklessAbandon .

 

Perfect, we can coordinate via PM. I’ll be up at Beardslee shortly after work tomorrow, maybe we can meet in the garage next to the Beardslee Public Ale House.

 

That works for me. PM incoming.

 

What are you testing...out of curiosity? Morimoto 2Sroke 4.0 LED Bulbs?

 

That is correct. There is a specific noise test that needs to be done in an actual vehicle.

 

Who’s going?

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/nwor.827658/

 

Looks interesting, what's it like?

 

My personal Pros Cons list.

Pros:

• tons of awesome rigs and gear to check out
• everyone is super friendly and wants to show off their setups
• raffles on some serious giveaways (free entry for all attendees)
• fun trail runs
• Sometimes vendors have good deals
• Some of the cleanest porta-johns i've seen hahaha.

Cons:

• You get a 20x20 square between a bzillion other 20x20 squares. It is tight.
• Unless you have folks you wanna see and hang out with it can get boring. After going a few times it's pretty much the same every year.
• Not cheap
• This could have changed, but I wish they actually had some food vendors/food trucks.

 

Nightly Raffle




I bought two spots last time I went so I could easily drop my camper and have extra space. Between me and friends, we had 4 spots in a square so we could share all our extra space. gave us some elbow room. They setup ground tents between my truck/camper and their rigs.

 

Any chance you are going to be testing the Diode Dynamics SL2 Pro LED bulbs?
https://www.diodedynamics.com/h11-sl2-pro-led-bulbs-pair.html

 

On my list, I haven’t acquired any yet though. I find it disappointing they don’t mention the emitter face cross section in any of the specs or marketing. Hope to get the 2stroke 4.0 review posted tonight. I can’t respond in that thread because I have the draft review post all written in there.

 

hmm might order these and try em out

 

Huh, I just got the SL1s for my van and wasn't that impressed. Will be interesting to see a comparison to the new ones.

 

I was not impressed with the morimoto 2stroke 4.0 bulbs. I'm really starting to think LED drop ins will never be good. HID drop ins are much much better in my experience.

 

There is actually good engineering reasons why you weren’t. HIDs unfortunately put up massively too much uplight through the halogen projectors designed uplight allowance, creating blinding glare. For Tacoma projectors the Philips H9 is about as good as it gets.