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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 03:13 PM
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My ongoing LED conversion...

I started this thread to illustrate my ongoing project of converting certain lights to LED.

As some of you already know I've already completed the center brake light and one interior door light.

Please feel free to add and ideas or comments to this thread.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 03:20 PM
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this thread is useless with out any pics...
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 03:27 PM
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omg, i haven't freakin started yet!

if you must have a pic,

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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:12 PM
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omg, Rasp moved to South Carolina! haha.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:14 PM
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i say you should LED everything!!!!
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:17 PM
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You could put the million LED's in the brake lights! kinnda like the Infinity look...
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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So far I have these ideas:

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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:28 PM
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HA!!! do I know this guy well, or WHAT?! I like the two bottom ones.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:32 PM
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I ordered a bunch of red leds and an extra pair of tail lights.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:32 PM
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you should do something cool with the side markers.

When you putting in the cool "Knight Rider" LED's???
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Jedi54
you should do something cool with the side markers.

When you putting in the cool "Knight Rider" LED's???
I also ordered 26 yellow leds with the intention of doing the front side markers.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:42 PM
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why yellow??? you should have done Red for the side markers. One of the guys in S.B. put red vinyl on his clear corners (for his VR) and it actually looks pretty cool. (so what if it's illegal. )
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 04:45 PM
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didn't you know, yellow is the new hyper white!
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:19 PM
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Are you planning on getting rid of the red reflector ring? How about the red lense? I'm not sure if those are separate pieces, but I think they may be. I like version 1, keep it simple and circular, no rotary symbols or anything like that.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:27 PM
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Here's an idea. Leave the red reflector ring but remove the red lense. Put a ring of red LEDs behind the reflector and then in the center, for the brake, put something similar to this:

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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:32 PM
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I plan on keeping the reflector and the red lens. I according to ups, I should have the tail lights in one week. Once I get them I can hack them up and see what can be done. I also think version 1 looks the best.
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i think you should get something that would reflect on what believe in:

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Something like this would be cool:

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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:56 PM
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Note the above idea would work equally well with the red lense in place also.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by XDEEDUBBX
i think you should get something that would reflect on what believe in:

rofl
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Aipex8
Something like this would be cool:

That looks really good, did you just photoshop that?
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I like the 2nd photoshopped pic.
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yep, photoshop it is.
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Originally Posted by Jedi54
I like the 2nd photoshopped pic.
it's meant to represent lights off, lights on, brakes on.
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do you have a link to that led light?
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