I finally got my HID kit yesterday and thought I'd share my experiences with you:

I ordered the McCulloch 6,000k kit from a vendor on Ebay.

The kit arrived in excellent condition and all the parts seem to be well made & well assembled.

I have to say that installing the bulbs is the hardest part, but if you take your time and work carefully you can do it. The bulbs themselves look like they're a multi-fit kind because they have a lot of different designations besides "H7" on the plastic container they come in. The bulbs come with a very large plastic base on them that doesn't look like it is even close to what an H7 should be, but if you look carefully, you'll notice that you can slide part of it down the wires to reveal a standard H7 mounting base. I used a pair of diagonal cutters to snip the unneeded piece of plastic off the wire pigtail. I also cut off the rubber pass-through grommet.

I discovered that it was easier (for me at least) to squeeze the base of the retaining clip and completely remove it before inserting the bulb into the housing. Once the bulb was mostly in place it was relatively easy to re-install the clip. You have to fish around a bit to find the right spot to insert it, but once you get one side in the other side snaps right into place.

I used a razor-knife to cut a small "X" at the top of the rubber covers to allow the wire pigtails to pass though to the ballast and the igniter. One thing I noticed is that the connector body on the ballast wiring that connects to the headlamp connector a bit too long to allow a good connection so I had to trim off a bit of the connector's hood to allow a good fit.

One important tip. It matters which way you wire the power connection from the ballast to the headlight connector. If you reverse polarity the bulb will not light. In my kit, the black wire has to be connected to the side of the headlamp connector that has two wires connected to it. The white wire goes to the side that has only one wire connected to it.

Once the wiring was in place I mounted the ballast & igniters to suitable spots under the hood and cable-tied the wiring securely to keep it from flopping around. One note: Space on the right side of the car is very limited, so be prepared for a little bit of creative thinking when you route wiring and find places to mount the pieces. A work of warning too: There's nice flat place between the coolant overflow and the battery that looks like it would be perfect to mount the ballast. This is not a good place because the right side hood bracing will contact the ballast when you close the hood.

The kit's instructions say the bulbs must have a 10 minute "burn-in", so I went for a drive. Wow, they are very bright and very white! My SilverStar lamps (now installed as the high-beams) look dull and yellow in comparison. Road illumination is excellent and anything with a reflective coating on it really stands out. One thing I noticed is that the "filament" on the HIDs must be in a slightly different place because the beam pattern is a little bit higher than with the stock bulbs. This is not necessarily a bad thing since it illuminates farther out and nobody got annoyed and flashed their high-beams at me.

The only negative thing I have to say is that the bulbs throw a small shadow that runs in a straight line from the lens to the bright spot in the beam pattern. I assume this is from the wire that runs alongside the lamp to the outside electrode. I'm sure I'll get used to it after a while, but I found it kind of annoying.

As far as color temperature goes, the 6,000k bulbs are definitely at the upper end of the spectrum for me. I did a little research, and found out that as the color temperature goes up, the light output goes down. They do a really good job at lighting things up, but I now find myself wondering how much brighter the 5,000k or 4,700k bulbs would be. Over all though, I am very happy with them and consider it money well spent.