new LED implants, w/pics*

[USHOMEISHOU]

So... I wanted LED tails but...
1. I didn't want any of the crappy 1 inch autozone direct replacement bulbs (too damn small for such a large lens)
2. couldn't swing the cash at the custom tails made by someone here(kzoosho? i think?) due to the fact that i just dropped $650 on tires for my truck.

so, while on a recent road trip I was at a truck stop and saw some badass LED fixtures for a 18 wheeler trailer (4 inch arrays) and said "i can stuff those in my tails!"
last weekend i went to the boneyard and found a donor SLO for my little project, heres the result...

before surgery...


after surgery , note: the abundance of JB Kwik to seal the wound (sorry, i forgot to take a pic of the fixture b4 the implants went in )


playing with spaghetti


plugged in with the pigtails purchased with the lights. note: the little white "boxes" are the load equalizers needed to keep the "lamp out" id10t light from comming on
EDIT** Load equalizers are gone (they like to melt things around them)
Grote flasher installed and I unplugged the lamp out module.


rockin'&rollin'

:hdance: :hdance: :hdance: :hdance: :hdance:

 

[SHOspazz92]

The back of your car is Very...Busy.

-Sam

 

[SHOtyme83]

Thats awesome! Well done. I need to do something like that when I finally get my old SHO back!

 

[SHOsFAST]

That looks great! Awsome job man.

 

[97SHOgt]

Yeah, lights looks great, need to lose the decal and the badge though, way too much going on...

 

[NeedAPartsCar]

w00t for every badge available on 2nd Gens... ON THE BACK!! LOL, seriously though, those lights look good.

 

[JustinSane]

love the lights, but agree on the 24v badge and stickers, they clutter a other wise nice looking car.

 

[Sho Amo]

the lights look bad ass
how much was the total?

 

[typhoon5000]

that looks sweet, reminds me of the tails on the mid to late 80's T-birds/cougars.
I'de be interested to know how much also? looks like a very simple job and I have extra tails to play with.

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

that looks sweet, reminds me of the tails on the mid to late 80's T-birds/cougars.
I'de be interested to know how much also? looks like a very simple job and I have extra tails to play with.

thanks for the compliments guys, yeah the extra badge was just for *****&giggles I realized when i took these pics that it was goofy as ****
once my badges come in from wclewis the yamaha one is gone too... but the TAPOUT decal stays!

as for price:
$30 for the boneyard tails
$40 for the fixtures (backdoor special normally $20 a peice I got em for $10 w/o a recipt of course )
$12 for the pigtails
$24 for the load equalizers (2 per light, 1 for brake 1 for tail)
$8 for two packages of JB kwik (one per side)

$114 total

 

[strings1732]

You know I had this idea a long time ago. The jeep crowd does the entire conversion over to the round led tails. I will be doing it to my jeep very soon and contemplated doing something similar. What I would like to do is cut the outer lens, install those, and some reverse lights in a similar pattern as stock with the new lights flush. Doing this would look similar to your design, but would make the leds more visible. I didn't know how well it would look so I never did it... I probably would have used one of the oval lights as to not make the backend look skyline-ish on my first gen, but yours look great!!!

 

[typhoon5000]

$12 for the pigtails
$24 for the load equalizers (2 per light, 1 for brake 1 for tail)

BTW, where do you get these guys^? Can they be found at the truck stop/travel stores as well? And what are the specs of them?

I'm thinking about doin'm but utilizing the pill shaped LED lights. I'm not sure how I'll organize them yet though. I was thinking something like \\ // or just \ / (picture lines as pill shape) but more horizontal so it will looked p'ed off.

 

[DDakRT]

You want to get rid of those load equalizers, those are junk and will heat up very quickly. I got a new electric blinker unit from Grote to fix the fast blink problem.

Ian (ManySHOs) made the first set a while ago and he helped me make mine. Both Ian and I have a writeup on here with pics, although I think most of my pics are dead now.

 

[typhoon5000]

You want to get rid of those load equalizers, those are junk and will heat up very quickly. I got a new electric blinker unit from Grote to fix the fast blink problem.

But those equalizers have ceramic housings. I highly doubt they will get hot enough to cause damage considering how well ceramic absorbs heat.

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

You want to get rid of those load equalizers, those are junk and will heat up very quickly. I got a new electric blinker unit from Grote to fix the fast blink problem.

Ian (ManySHOs) made the first set a while ago and he helped me make mine. Both Ian and I have a writeup on here with pics, although I think most of my pics are dead now.

You just have to make sure that they have enough airspace, they do indeed get pretty hot so inside the trunk under the carpet would probably be a problem. I have mine outside the trunk in the space behind the tails (which leaves the space under the bumper open and airy

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

BTW, where do you get these guys^? Can they be found at the truck stop/travel stores as well? And what are the specs of them?

I'm thinking about doin'm but utilizing the pill shaped LED lights. I'm not sure how I'll organize them yet though. I was thinking something like \\ // or just \ / (picture lines as pill shape) but more horizontal so it will looked p'ed off.

I got mine at a local TA travel center, but they are available at most truck stops, some have truck stops have better selections than others though

 

[DDakRT]

You just have to make sure that they have enough airspace, they do indeed get pretty hot so inside the trunk under the carpet would probably be a problem. I have mine outside the trunk in the space behind the tails (which leaves the space under the bumper open and airy

They work yes, but is a bandaid solution. One of the advantage of LEDs is that they use less current, but the car's computer thinks that you have a lamp out because it uses so much less. These load resistors just takes that amount of current and turns them into heat tricking the computer into thinking you have regular incandesent (sp?) bulbs in.

This is what I have, cost $8-12 so it's similar to those resistors, why not do it properly?


It also makes the wiring a lot cleaner, without those resistors.

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

They work yes, but is a bandaid solution. One of the advantage of LEDs is that they use less current, but the car's computer thinks that you have a lamp out because it uses so much less. These load resistors just takes that amount of current and turns them into heat tricking the computer into thinking you have regular incandesent (sp?) bulbs in.

This is what I have, cost $8-12 so it's similar to those resistors, why not do it properly?

Well, Don't I feel like a dope I am definitely going to get one. but wouldn't I still need the load equalizers for the tails? I had originally wired them like the instructions on the equalizers said (only to the brake/signal circuit) and that fixed the fast flash problem and the LAMP OUT light problem with the brake/signals, but it still came on any time the taillights were on until I added equalizers to the taillight circuit also:type: where do i get one of those LED flashers?

 

[JoesSHO]

Lookin' cool- Props for doing something I wouldn't try- looks awesome!

Oh- and the only badge you're missing now is a police vehicle/interceptor badge. (WooT!!! sorry Alex!)

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

Oh- and the only badge you're missing now is a police vehicle/interceptor badge. (WooT!!! sorry Alex!)

sad thing is, with all the crap that WAS on the back of my car (now gone with the exception of the tuning forks that I left after removing "YAMAHA") at least there was total "truth in advertising" unlike a police interrupter badge