Recommended headlight bulb and spark plugs

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Recommended headlight bulb and spark plugs

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What’s your recommendations for the above?
Stock or have you found better?
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I use a 55/60 watt headlight bulb.
Spark plugs NGK Iridium- DPR8EIX-9

Info is on the Main site, Dollar for dollar link
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I also used the NGK Iridium plugs. On the Bulb a Phillips for Motorcycles.
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I installed Sylvania Ultra Silver Star bulb, wider, brighter, same wattage as stock
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Re: Recommended headlight bulb and spark plugs

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Thank you for the replies!
Do the 80/100 watt H4 bulbs overburden the electrical system?
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... read somewhere, oversized bulbs burn everything... wires, sockets, enclosures....
Stick with stock W size, maybe get a whiter bulb? Run some LED running lites
to get more notice?
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If you want to be seen instead of trying for a higher wattage headlight bulb, do what I did and mount a set of high power LED driving lights on the crash bars. YOU WILL be noticed.
For Voyager XII Manuals click the link below.
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+ 1 ... me too and you might some bright lites flipped atcha!!! GBG
Make sure they are adjusted "friendly".....
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