I'm feeling a little blue
 

Last year I bought the led footwell set Rotary Rasp was selling.
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This year I followed up with the interior light & map light sets from rx8strakes.com

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I love the interior lights, and it was cheap & easy to do. It's like getting into a UFO at night.

looks awesome! nicely done Drew

Looks good.

I want to do that do they come in black?

were thay hard to instal?

Dome light & door lights were dead simple: pop off the cover & replace the bulb. the hardest part was pulling the wicked hot bulb out of the door socket. Map lights you have to drop the sunroof control console out, but that's really easy too (take out 2 screws, pry a clip, done). the foot well set was somewhat involved, and you spend a lot of time in really uncomfortable positions on your back. that one probably took me about an hour.

Note - careful on the door lights - the front clear cover keeps the whole thing rigid. Once you take it off, it's very easy to push the bulb holder part into the door cavity.

Light go bye-bye, ask me how I know.......


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^^^ that's a PAIN in the ass to get back! you either have to yank on the corner of the door panel and hope you don't break it or you do the rational thing and take the WHOLE dooor panel off. :banghead:

.....and still break it. don't ask me how i know. :lol2:

I have a blue footwell led kit sitting in my bedroom...I'm just too lazy to install it.

Lighting is a good easy 1st mod to do. Cheap, and the results are fantastic.

that looks awesome!!

ooohhh i love blue.

it looks real cool man, i was interested in doing that in my 8, but too lazy lol.
i did colour my bulbs in my az3, just don't use your map lights for reading maps lol
as they will relax you so much you'll fall asleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

thats cool

wow, that looks too cool, im gonna bite off you man...lol

i just spent like 200 at rxstrakes for all their led's...lol

ill put pics of the project car on the website once i have everything installed..hehehe

hope mine comes out like that

awesomenss, looks good

Not bad at all...

reds better :) jk haha blue looks just as cool.

what exactly did you buy from rx8stakes? i want my car looking like that.

i could help u if u want an LED interior like that.

aside from the dome light, map lights, and door lights, what Lumen LED is good to get for the floor LEDs? i'm looking to do it in my car and i'm good with electronics, can etch a PC board quickly and assemble it, just need to know whats a good lumen for LED to use on the floor?

I've got a few LED's laying around all pure white, but I would never think of using them on the floor boards. They're all 340 lumen each and 170 lumen. I don't wanna blind myself.

Would a 40 lumen LED work well enough?

The footwell lighting came from Rotary Rasp (see www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=118507) but I don't think he's selling them anymore.

From rx8strakes came the 'Interior lighting' set and the 'Map light set'

He just started up another Group Buy.. its in the Group Buy section if any new peeps want to purchase a set.

I just got the blue lights from rx8strakes... love um...

I stand corrected. I totally endorse his product. Price was good, installation was easy, and the directions included quite clear.
If you look at the earlier thread I linked above I did make a slight modification to the drivers side mounting, as I had some concerns about the board rubbing on the steering shaft. See my post here: https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...&postcount=383