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Just my taste talking here, but any more lights on there and it's going to look cluttered, maybe kind of 'riced'. Unfortunately, these days you also have to consider whether your add-ons make an attractive target for thieves.
I agree with the post by 'runwld2' and his order of diminishing returns. On both our 81 and 83, I have Hella H4's in the outer lamps with Sylvania Silverstar 60/55W bulbs, and plain old GE halogen sealed beams in the inner high beams. The high beams are on relays. There's plenty of light...everyone comments: "...better than my car".
Both cars have 70A alternators (the 83 is original, never touched; the 81's came from an 84 in the PnP) and have no trouble keeping voltage up.
I bought a pair of Hella 1000 driving lamps on sale a while back (Susquehanna Motorsports), and they are disappointing. Rather cheaply made with a goofy mounting assembly, and they scatter the light too much. A lot like the Hella 550 lamps I had years ago. But my Hella 4X6 H4's are quite good - not Cibie (pronounced "see-byay"), but not $$$, either. If you must have auxiliary driving lamps consider the Cibie Airport-35's from Dan Stern. Better optics, and better suited to the look of the car.
Bear in mind when adding lighting watts to a pre-86 240 that ALL the lighting power goes through your little dashboard light switch. You need relays. Even the post-85 240's which only have two bulbs burning on high beam are known to fry the wiring socket in their lighting relay.
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Bob (son's 81-244GL B21F/M46, dtr's 83-244DL B23F/M46, my 94-944 B230FD; hobbycar 77 MGB, and a few old motorcycles)
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