Lets See Some Light: The Definitive Lighting Thread

[usdm180sx]

Originally Posted by Pink Slut

i LOVE those fake deep LED cupholder/box's from the magazine.

also:
Japanese outlaw Street racer - YouTube

I dig it. Shit fucking looks like the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[hellion240sx]

just wow! japan...

[gerardogomez0809]

Originally Posted by Pink Slut

i LOVE those fake deep LED cupholder/box's from the magazine.

also:
Japanese outlaw Street racer - YouTube

Lol one difference in this video between beaners and these guys. ... Beaners don't go to Starbucks. Lol

( hope no one gets offended, I'm a beaner myself)


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[mikeyee]

been playing with these





gotta close look at the rocket rabbit frs' taillights during fatlace's paddock sale. pretty shnazzy! I'm still trying to wrap my head around how it was put together! i want to assume it's a custom housing inside. but it could also just be a board with the led reflectors placed in there, and holes cut in the board to let the glowing bar thing to go out and go to its shape, then back inside behind the board, where there are LEDs lighting it up. either way this was done reeallllyyyy well! supposedly fixed up by some shop in japan.

[s0fa king]

I'm loving that style of tails. BMW has that sort of 'light bar' on a few cars. I've even seen some for the Prius that look cool.

[josh_schul]

Morimoto Minis in my S14 .... much better than the OEM Halogen projectors... clean cutoff and non blinding to other drivers... i see no problem with them. Good bang for your buck.




First Retro in my old Prelude Rx330 with TSX clear lens



Output Shot

[Future240]

^Cutoff pic?

[josh_schul]

Ill get some tonight... I am actually in the process of wiring them up right now lol.

[silviaks2nr]

I can't imagine how poor the output is of minis behind the thick oem glass lenses. Get some headlight lenses from aftermarket headlights and swap 'em on at least.

[josh_schul]

Output is just fine.... idk how you think the oem clear glass could affect light output that much?... It was designed around a projected halogen beam and is (relatively) clear and uniform where the projector is. If it was behind a fluted lens i could see your point... but its a headlight... its designed to allow light to pass through it with minimal affects. Yes... it could be better in another set... but its is literally 1000000000x better than the halogen projector. Im not saying this setup is uber baller or anything... but it is functional and only cost me $170 bucks in parts.

[future]

Looking forward to cut off pictures. I'm going to get a retrofit done with the same projectors

[silviaks2nr]

I've done half a dozen kouki retrofits, the glass lens really does have a huge negative affect on the intensity and where the light is dispersed as well. It took several iterations of my own personal retrofits to realize this and I went so far as to make my own clear lenses before the vertex lights existed. It's not a must, but well worth the investment to swap the lenses IMO.

[josh_schul]

I hear ya... i most likely will swap lenses at some point. But, right now its not on the priority list. Gotta finish the heart of the car this month haha.

[rat240]

still need to figure out a dual brightness circuit set up

cause im using this set up on my other set of taillights
2 wire LEDs to 3 wire conversion (write up) - JeepForum.com

im sure its not the proper way

[rat240]

[mikeyee]

the hellokitty lights I fixed up for a friend a while back were finally installed.






And Lex installed his v.2 S4 lights on his FC.



and threw together a video of them during the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY4x...Q&feature=plcp




his FC is pretty hot

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...92406564_n.jpg

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...89587614_n.jpg

[gerardogomez0809]

Originally Posted by rat240

What's up bro.... Let me know when u start making these for local guys


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[Matej]

[mikeyee]

once again, japan showing the world how it's done



ninjaedit

yuuki-san from sexy knights has been posting up some awesome stuff on his instagram feeds.

http://web.stagram.com/n/yuuki77777/

[kiriyama]

Yeah so could anybody translate or do a write up on that? Specifically with S13 Triple Projectors? haha I WANTS DEM HALOS.

[hellion240sx]

Originally Posted by Matej

what kind of wizadry is this, o wait /japan....

mike can you do this?

[eZiR- rps13]

holy crap japland...
I need to figure out that sequential lighting

this is my first tail prototype:

[tapdeznutz]

Originally Posted by eZiR- rps13

holy crap japland...
I need to figure out that sequential lighting

this is my first tail prototype:

how did you get the lenses off the taillight, i tried and it didnt work for me. kind of melted the lenses, please help.

[eZiR- rps13]

remove the back screws ..
then you'll bake it...in my case I used a heat gun
you heat it all the way around not so much on the lenses though...
gently pry it out should be able to push them out from behind
if it starts getting too difficult just warm up the glue again

[Razi]

For the glowing bars, it's probably a chunk of acrylic that got sanded a bit.
BMW uses that sort of magic in their taillights.



Sand it down, shine an LED through it, and it glows.

[Chase_Lovett]

What is ya'lls opinion of the crystal tails on s14's??? can't make up my mind haha

[KOUKIboy]

Originally Posted by Future240

Mikeyee you should consider becoming a vendor and offering your services to Zilvia. Seems you could make a tidy profit.

X2 your shit is legit!!! will be contacting you soon for S14 fixings!!!!

[dsd32]

Heres some led highbeams I made up for my 32, using a couple xmlt60's at the moment and maybe upgrade to something a little brighter later on down the track.





R32 XML LED - YouTube

[Minz]

Originally Posted by dsd32

Heres some led highbeams I made up for my 32, using a couple xmlt60's at the moment and maybe upgrade to something a little brighter later on down the track

That's so dope bro, I remember seeing them on your blog and was like "god damn that thing is crazy". Good stuff!

[jays_240]

here my contribution did this like 2-3 years ago
gonna redo it once i have the income.........?