If you need assistance in figuring all that out, you really need professional help anyways so I won't waste time typing it out. The best placement for lights is on the bumper, behind a bushbar far enough to protect them from big stuff. Also having protection for stones and rocks is good too, but not the plastic covers, all they do is get the airflow off the light and shorten the bulb life. Another thing to take into consideration is not having too many lamps blocking airflow to the rad. Stock lighting is OK, but if you are electrically savvy, you can run larger guage (ie 8 or 10 G) wire from a relay for both high and low beams coming from your column switch. This gives you a lot more power to the bulbs, and consequently better lighting, meaning less auxilliary lighting. I was running 2 pencil beams and 2 fogs. The pencils were aimed for lighting beyond the hi beam pattern, and the fogs were set up between hi and lowbeam. I never ran the fogs and pencil beams together, never had the need, and I've seen people forget to turn one bank of lights off and blind oncoming drivers.