If so, how'd it look, got any pics?
Been thinking about doing this, since I found out how cheap LED lights can be had on ebay...and most of the bulbs in my car have been in there since I bought it (almost 4 years ago), so I am considering upgrading to full LED's (tails, high mount stop lamp, and marker lights).
Are you talking about just installing the LED bulbs, or actually modifying the housings?
I've been working on it... for about 5 years...
Although my project is coming along very, very slowly it will look awesome when finished - the lights will sequence, of course, but I've also extensively modified the tail light housings. There will be 330 red LED's (55 in each of three round sections, on each side), and 200 white LED's for backup lights.
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Heh, I'm just talking about LED bulbs...doing what you're doing is above and beyond what I'm talking about.
No fear, it's above and beyond what I'm talking about, too, hence the "stalled" status of this project :p
Most aftermarket LED bulbs do not throw a lot of light, and the light most of them do throw goes straight out. If you can, get the ones that have "rear firing" as well as front firing LED's (or 360-degree light output), so they light up the whole inside of the housing instead of just a little dot
I bought some of the LED plug-in bulbe before, looked like so I retuyrned it and just got red coloured bulbs instead, like thunder chicken said the beam of light is too concentrated.
I did put led's into a dummy light on my sprint, it was just a clear lense over a silver bucket, no lights or anything so I put 5 10cm orange leds into it and wired them to the side marker lights, want really that hard to do.
Scott
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i11/turbosprunt/bcn.jpg?t=1167457425)
this is what i got
Dude that is really awesome, I like it a lot!
Also if you put LED's in your turn signals they might blink faster than normal. There is an adapter out there, just can't remember the site right now.
Edit>> Found the website! http://www.superbrightleds.com/carbulb-notes.htm (http://"http://www.superbrightleds.com/carbulb-notes.htm")
Ah, maybe I'll just stick with regular light bulbs for now. I took my taillights apart last night so I can clean up the inside of them and seal em back up (they both got water into them every time I washed the car or it rained). It'd cost me $50 or so to get all LED's and since I don't really know how good they'd look, guess I'll pass for now...
If you want I can get pictures of those particular LED's in a vehicle, it is not a cat (Honda Civic). But they look pretty good!
they are already sequential thanks to carmen!!:birdsmily:
no no a faster blink rate due to the LED's producing a lower load than the original flash is looking for.
unless his sequencers already take that into account or you have more line load?
I had put LED bulb's in the rear of my Bird that I got from a truck stop. They were bright enough, but like everyone has said, they looked like dots (2") from a short distance. I'm going to do something different when I put the Bird back together. I might graft 87' - 88' T/C lights into it and make them sequential.
The flashers included with my sequencers only require one "real" bulb per side, so as long as the front bulbs are stock you're good to go.
FWIW, if you install LED's with the stock thermal flasher the car came with it won't flash at all
Okay, I was basing my info off a of Honda... haven't tried anything on my older vehicles. :dunce:
Thanks for the info though!