Anyone have any success with this on a 3rd gen? I am finding all kinds of 5th and 6th gens with them but no 3rd. Putting together my order so that I can get it done next weekend but was hoping for some pointers.

Maybe I will be the first......

Also going with blue LED in the interior - just replaced my door lights with LEDs and will hit the dash and the other stock lights next weekend as well if time allows. Also adding strips to the interior and trunk.

 

If you need help let me know - I know where to get parts and all that stuff along with the installation.

 

Good Luck! Can't wait for the pics!

 

not aware of it having been done on a 3rd gen. so you will probably be the first, so make good instructions haha

 

i thought i saw someone hear in a red 3rd gen with rx8 projector/in euro headlights that has it

 

hmm.. not that i've seen. big props to anyone who pulls the look off well.. hard to do a rounded led design on a squarish car and have it look natural.

 

oooo... cant wait to see it. gl with ur project!

 

found it

http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generat...ofit-help.html

not exactly audi

 

o..... i think that's around when i got banned... i didn't post in the 3g forum for about a month after i got unbanned either, so that's probably why i missed it. looks better than i expected based on the description alone, but he needs to untint his signals.... no real light can show through that much tint... not during the daytime anyhow.

 

What'd you do btw? I was off the forums for about a week and then boom! you were banned

 

inferred death threat on another member ironically it had something to do with headlights....

 

well I guess I shouldn't be laughing... Oh well I'm glad it wasn't a thing permanent, like death...

 

I seen it before in some red 3rd gen. there's a thread w/ the car floating around here somewhere. Black euros w/ single projector retro and led strip along the top IIRC. my brother did the same thing on his 93 prelude. looks like gay fairy twinkles if you ask me. but on a show car it's just for show right.

 

D'OH! so much for reading bfor posting.. wow i'm grate

 

wasn't it that 'tard that had the black 3rd gen and swore he was GOD just because he did a bixenon retrofit and then the tranny blew and he just stopped coming on here?

 

no it was the tard that insisted that it was OK to put HIDs in stock headlights and swore to got that he had "never blinded anyone"... which of course, unless you pull pepole over and ask "hey did i blind you?" there's no way to know...

 

I just finished playin around with a mod like that, it turned out alright, but i might go back and play with it some more.

What you guys think?



Sorry pics were taken with my phone.

 

i don't know , i think you just have to play with it some more and see how it turns out but being outside on top of the headlight and under the hood looks weird. also, get the frame for that euro tag and center it as well. then lower the car. but keep messing around with the l.e.d.'s.

 

oh i see... its like a blur in my mind so i don't remember that certain individual that you had the problem with. but its in the past so who cares buddy. lets move on with this interesting thread that we have here.

 

@ jcarryl

maybe continue the strip across then down the inside edges of the lights where they meet the grille?

 

and make them the same length of the headlight cuz its still short.

 

Yah I knew they would be a little short when I bought them, but they only cost me 5 bucks shipped, so I couldnt resist. It only took me 5 mins to set it up too. Once I get clear headlamps Ill do a better and more permanent setup.

Thanks for the advice too, I'd like to get eibach lowering springs but there so damn expensive, at least for me. I was too lazy to fix the tag after I put it on hahaha.

 

anytime, but when you do get the chance fix it .

 

I looked at the red car in the other thread and am not sure that I like the LEDs going up the middle and over the top. I think I am going to go across the bottom and up the outside. I do like the rounder corner from going up the middle though.

Any thoughts?

 

Here is an excellent product for this use folks.
http://www.oznium.com/side-emitting-led-strip

BTW...if you call them to make the order and get the automated system, that my voice.

 

very cool!

 

that would probably look better inside the headlights and on bottom. =P

its ok capedcadaver, i got bannned too lol

 

This is what I am ordering - won't have it for this weekend though as they are out of stock.......

Was looking at the E36 lights and wondered if I could pull the Audi look in it as well, doesn't look like I could do it as cleanly on the outside edge. I currently have what I believe are called the Euro lights - clear lens.



I also am loading up on the flexible LEDs thta they have in the blue for under the dash, under the front seats and in the storage bins in the door. Will get some for under the hood and in the grille on the Stillen Kit as well.

I like LEDs!!!

 

Haha, I know man, its pretty much a ghetto rig, I get stuff in the mail get some wires and a soldering gun and I get kinda carried away lol.
I'm waiting on my clear euro lights to come and ill put 'em on the inside.

 

o nuts lol i didnt know it was your car dude, would that work for the signals? or would it signal too fast like theres no bulbs ?

 

It wouldn't mess with your signal flasher if you have a load resistor inline with your LED board. I plan on switching just about everything over to LED when I'm finally back working again. I hate being stuck on minimal unemployment benefits.

 

So to clarify, do those flexible LEDs you linked to need a separate resistor that I supply, or do they come ready to go? [for 12v power]

 

If your using them as DRLs, then no resistor is required. Just tap into the 194 marker lights in the corner housings.

 

hmm if i do use these for my signals, ill hit you up about it. i put leds on before for signals and it blinked flash like crazy haha exactly as if there were no bulbs but, yea probably need the resistor.

 

Yah that's exactly what I did, I just tapped into my corner lights, but I dont know about the signals, I'm gonna order some more LED's from Oznium and play around with 'em.

 

dude save money for the springs lol

 

Well - the lights arrived today. Many thanks to kzoosho from the board for his handywork!!!

Ended up going with Euro housings, FX-35 R projectors with clear lenses, and flexible LED strips from Oznium. I bought the projectors/ballasts from The Retrofit Source. Going to take more pics tomorrow as I install and will probably go ahead and put my clear corners on.

Close-up of the Euro-housing, used the Gatlin bezels.


Top View with LEDs on


Both with LEDs on


Darker room with LEDs on


Will post more as I take them.

 

!!NICE!!

They look great on the table and I'm sure they'll look outstanding once you install them. Can't wait for more pics!!

 

Are those the clear headlights or the black ones?

Projector setup looks awesome!

 

It is the black housing. Thanks, I am really happy with them.

A lot more expensive than I had originally thought, but I am set on doing my '92 right.