Well guys i am thinking about doing another set of tails for my car since i am selling the ones on them. I am trying to figure what i want to do. My first plan was to use more leds to fill it out more than the first. The second design i was thinking about doing was having two rows of leds as marker and 3 or more rows for brake. This would make wiring easier but not sure if thats what i want to do.

If you have any idea please let me know. I am open to ideas.

 

are you interested in using the 89-91SE style, with the clear outer shell? You could get hella creative with that.... Still road legal cuz it has the red reflectors and all.

Dunno if you're feelin' this... not-full-brightness 2 rows across on the bottom part (where you normally have the white/amber bulbs) as your running lights. Then on the main part that is normally the brake lights... 2 circles, 2 rows deep, for the brakes. Then a small cluster (perhaps easiest to just se the 1156 LED pre-made bulbs for this) of white on the inner ones, and amber on the outer ones. Kinda like the LED ring ones they have for the 4G.

this is similar to what i'm talking about... just minus the oogleh covers and this one doesn't have the lower running light bar like i mentioned.... i guess you could say it's a page i borrowed from Volvo/BMW/Mercedes having a dedicated brakelight on each side separate from the running lights. Heck i even snipped the running light wire for my inner 1157 bulbs so that the low-wattage filament is disabled.

 

Those look amazing.

 

Now i do like that but the bad thing is that the lens is clear red not clear. Plus with the car being as square as it is the circles just dont do it for me. Not knockin the tails. I think they are hot. As far as tails yes im using the 89-91 tails this time.

 

the outer shell of the 89-91SE is clear-clear, with the diffuser being red. I have a tiny crack in my diffuser panel, and the light shines through white. so you're 'in the clear'. The 89-91 GXE ones are red-on-clear.. I have a spare set of 89SE ones that aren't in the best of shape if you just wanna screw around with them before making a final version.

but, if the circles don't float your boat.. i can draw up some other ideas when i get back

 

cadillac tails? :bolt:

 

U know what i dont have the se ones so you are right. I have the gxe which are clear red. If i had those i guess it could be done with those.

 

 

I'd rock those if they weren't painted like that...

 

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do you want some? they were the ones i got from jonmandude.. he tinted them but i sanded it off so they aren't exactly shiny, BUT they'd be great to hack up and screw with to see if it's a look you are going for or not, before you spend money on a more expensive mint-condition set. You'll just want to have some sort of thin plastic sheet with holes drilled in it to match the LED positions unless you want the bare circuitboard showing through. PM me if interested.

 

Kinda hard to photo.

 

Photos look fine to me. shame that the reflector is in the middle, but nothing you can do about that.

 

Lookin good. personally I wouldn't rock the two circles that caped linked but then again I'd probably have to see them without the cover...too ricy

 

Im still thinking about doing the SE covers on them. I think that would look good.

 

What about doing two round donuts in each one with the LEDs like in Skyline R32 tails?

 

cape posted this earlier in the thread. personal i dont like them but mostly do to the white covers

 

What type of LEDs are you useing on this mod

 

Man that looks so freekin sexy....where do I sign up to send you my lights? Awesome job !!!!

 

Nice bump

Those look pretty damn good

 

Ya, sorry I missed that link to the round tails earlier. I have a set of R34 Tails that I want to install at some point and would like to add LEDs to them. But if I don't get around to doing all that custom body work I might just mod my stock taillights to have that look. I think instead of the two smaller even circular light patterns a larger outside and smaller inside circle would look better, kind of like the R34 Skyline tails or the Infiniti G35/M35-45.

 

I like the G35 concept for the stock housing... Check this out, it could be quite helpful if you decide to go that route:

http://g35driver.com/forums/lighting...-lights-5.html

 

Those look great. I wish that there was something similar for sale for I older i30. I will do more research.


Honestly, I am trying to get 15 posts so I can post pictures of my hid cefiro retro.

 

Well, let's see it. Looks like you have more than 15 posts now

 

Any pics with the taillights installed in the car?

 

I will post some later

 

Good looks I think that has to look crazy installed I look foward to checking it out nice work.....

 

I just saw some like this on a car on cardomain and wondered where they came from but hell if u wanna sell these let me know they are pretty sick.

 

gotta have a plate light also

 

Nice work, very original and looks sick

 

Just a thought, how about fewer leds and use larger ones like the newer bmw tails?

 

Alright I haven't had been writing much on the 3rd gen threads because I haven't had mine long (rebuilding it) but that is f*ckn sexy. This project has been running through my mind since I got the car but you're the first I've seen do it.

 

Newer BMW's dont use larger leds persay but do have reflectors. They are using snap leds which arent but .1mm larger. The reflectors make the diff.

 

i would like to do sumthin like that on my 93 but kinda scared cuz im not so sure of myself yet... still so inexperienced lol