The reason your beam pattern is messed up is not b/c you have d2s...It is b/c your D2S bulbs bases are not modified to 9006...All you have done is put OEM D2S bulbs in a 9006 required housing. All OEM HID reflectors use D2R, and all OEM HID projectors use D2S. Therefore, we need to have rebased 9006 D2 bulbs. It doesn't matter whether it is d2r or d2s, that isn't why your light is messed up. Your bulb isn't positioned correctly, therefore your light isn't being reflected correctly, b/c your base is not 9006....
And Joses HID's are 9006 based D2S. D2R's have a shield on the glass to reduce glare in OEM HID Reflector housings....See, here is a pic of two D2R bulbs...
I have to agree. While my D2S HID capules are modified for 9006, it is NOT modified the simple way like the masses out there. The modified D2S tht I have on my kits were done for XenonLamps Co. (No longer in the business of HID lighting) buy a professional HID fabricator with access to OEM HID fabrication equipment and made to stricter tolorances. What the end up doing is virually moving the enire gas pockets possition in the correct place not by varying the base thickness, but by actually refabricating the possition of the glass within the base itself. Now, don't quote me on this, as this is just my understanding of the process, so there could be much more involved things, or I could have just misunderstood. But eitherway, what ends up happening is the gas pocket is in the exact same possition as a halogen bulb should be. Anyway, my D2S beam pattern looks nothing like SpeedDemons, but simple look like a very bright 9006 halogen bulb beam pattern. While I'm not saying it is the best, as the OEM 9006 Legend optics suck and produces a crappy beam pattern with hot spotting to begin with, at least the HID coversion is an exact replica. For those who don't believe me that the 9006 optics on the Legend is crappy and responsible for the hotspotting, I've done experiments on 3 different Legend Coupe headlights, and all 3 show the same pattern when viewed in extreme darkness, especially of you have a 9005 coversion that offers more light output. Also, the glass diffuser in front of the USDM optics is responsible for much of the funny beam pattern scatter as well, as I have used the USDM 9006 optics behind the JDM glass diffuser with a very different beam pattern and light scatter.
Unfortunately, for the 9006 Legend optics, we really have no best conversion when it comes to D2S or D2R. We don't have a true projection, but we don't have have a reflector cap like the newer 9006 optics found in say the Accord and other cars and newer Civics and such. But, I still the believe that the D2S in proper beam pattern correction offers the best results for the USDM optics. As far as the JDM and EDM, I can't say right now, but I'll have a better understanding of the EDM soon. I'm getting new HID capsules from my old source for the EDM within a month or so. Sorry guys, but my source that I listed above is no longet in the retail business, so I can only get them as a favor basis on a special order only.
Here is a picture I just snapped to try and show the relationship between the HID gas pocker and the halogen filament possition. It is not the best picture though. Also, one of the frist things I was told when doing my conversion a few years ago was that an improperly corrected or uncorrected HID coversion's beam pattern would be almost like a W, or with 4 distinct beam/fingers of light. I think from SpeedDemons picture that still holds true today.
