Brad, it appears your other posts (which were a tad harsh) have been deleted which in some ways is a shame as its hard for me to reply now.
However:
1. I was only trying to demonstrate a legal alternative, and as the cars stands now that's exactly what it is.
2. I did say in my first post as far as the second picture is concerned it was not a great demonstration. It's hard to show the improvement but you could see that they were very bright and my word needed to be taken regarding not being dazzling on dipped beam. When I said a picture proves very little I was referring to dazzle. Ideally I'd have different cars, lenses, light sources, wiring etc etc to demonstrate the differences but who's got that to hand?
3. I never once compared what I have to Hellas with HIDs in them, I never said my setup is better, I never said that your lights dazzled blah blah blah. In fact the comparison I made was against my daily that has a similar setup as the OP, Projector lenses with normal bulbs vs upgraded looms vs my experience with legal HIDs, so not sure what your problem was with what I was saying.
4. I have no idea what point you were trying to make about my car never leaving my drive or its relevance to this topic. It is not my daily driver, you know the history of this car and what it's been through, it was a big project for a year followed by 6 months on the road followed by more work over the winter now to make it even better. My current responsibilities means I haven't got money p155ing out of my ears so it's slow moving at times, I have to do everything myself and to be fair I wouldn't pay someone to do it all for me even if I could afford it.
Now I don't even know why I'm feeling the need to justify myself!