As I have found out, passing the pits and legal is not necessarily always the same thing.
I went easily through the pits with 6000k in my standard housing once - 3 months later I was defected and had to go over and they wouldn't allow it.
I had always thought, for a HID conversion to be legal it requires some sort of self leveling mechanism to prevent blinding other cars.
On my previous MR2 I polished up my glass headlights and used some Phillips Diamond Vision bulbs (I think?) and it provided great night viability without expensive of custom parts/fabrication.