First of all, I would like to thank Araffio for inspiring me and creating this idea of putting LED's in the taillights. My cousin and I worked on this day and night. This was one of the most major projects i have done, and im only a senior in high school .

I only put LED's on my taillights (brake and parking), dont have enough time and patience to put them in my blinkers or reverse.

We worked on this project, on and off a few days out of the week, and it took a few weeks to do so. From making designing the layout, to measuring, soldering, drilling and many other stuff, its finally completed and looks absolutely beautiful.

Ordered about 200 LED's, and used like 175 of them, with 175 resistors, and the total of this project came up to about 70-80 bucks total. I DID NOT buy extra taillights, i took the risk of using my stockers, and not being able to drive the car, thas good cuz it stayed in the garage and outta the freezin temps here in the Northeast

I went with the design of having 6 rows, row 1, 3,4,6 are parking, and row 2 and 5 are brake. The 3rd and 4th row are close together on purpose, making it seem like a thick line of LED lights...(like the new 7 series) hehe.

Here are the pics...Sorry about some of the pics that didnt show well, the LED are too bright for the camera to pick up.

Parking Lights:




Brake Lights:

 

Parking and Brake Lights:


LED's hooked up to Blinker:

 

looks good

 

holy smokes, thats nice.

 

Very good job. Much props.

 

very very nice man good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That's looks sweet!! I am getting tempted to do it too. Could be a great alternative to my altezzas on my '95.

 

Very nice looking mod!

 

they're hot... good job

 

POSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

































j/k - very hot

 

Very clean job.


ok confess now that Tony made it for ya :-D

 

real sweet.....all that hard work paid off nicely

 

Thanks alot guys...the time and effort spent on this really did pay off. Its not that hard, but VERY VERY time consuming.

 

Hey- nice work man, they look great. I am a Junior in highschool over in Wellesley, MA. I'd like to meet ya sometime at a meet. Good job.

 

bro, that looks really good. You should do as much custom led work as possible. keep it coming.

 

Now Make A Pair for the 5th gen!

 

I just dont know. I mean their nice, but it just seems the way their laid out, in rows, just doesnt look right. Maybe like a circle (as in the G35C) or something. Maybe someone can come up with a different design.

I give you mad props though on the effort, i couldnt ever do something like that with my lack of patience/time and i do think they look good, i just wanna see someone come up with some more unique...


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Eric

 

Nice , did you use a ciruit or wire um all together ?

 

I would love to learn HOW to do this, as far as the electrical process and drilling, etc etc, would you mind doing a rough summary of how this is done? And where you can buy the parts (im sure you need more than just LEDs).

 

Def dude, ive been to a few meets around. My sis used to go to Wellesley College. So ur around natick area??


Might as well buy Gen 2 Altezza's. The thing is that the way the stock lights and housing is for the 4th gen, u can only do rows, its the way it flows. If u look at it carefully, u see lines going across, in rows. Thats just the way it is, u can do circles, but u would have to get different taillights, like altezzas, that will flow with the style of the taillight.


I wired all them together.

 

I wish someone could make a pic of how they look on the inside. I want to know how to put them and how did you make them stay in place , glue gun???

damm i must say it agian, these are the shiiet!

 

Doing a HOW to, or summary on this would be impossible, because it contains so much work in every process. It would be just pathetic to even write one.

As for parts, u need LEDs, resistors, and some sort of custom "circuit board" or template, to lay the LED's on that specially fit the tight spaced housing.

 

How many hours did this take you>?

 

There are holes in the plexiglass where the LED are placed into, and stayed in place by a glue gun, each LED is hooked up to a resistor.

 

Yea, I am right on the Wellesley/Natick border. Us MA people are planning a meet sometime in spring. Check out the Northeastern forum.

Nice work again, by the way.

 

it looks really good, i bet it cost you a pretty penny.

 

maybe if this "tomy" figure had anything to do with tail lights.


they look very nice, and the pictures make the whole job look clean.

 

You got the point right? ;-)

 

no sir, i dont

 

Do you have any pics of the circuitry? I'm not looking for a how-to, just a few pics of hte circuit board with the LEDs and resistors connected.

I'm trying to visualize it from the inside thats why.

 

great job dude !



hmmm, wuz araffio goin to customize now

 

ya what do you mean circuit bored to hold leds in place? It seems difficult.

 

what size resistor? and is it all just in series? also do the resistors show through the lense when lite up or not? when will the be a write up? or if there one? thnx.

 

what kind of LEDs you used?
(mm?, mcd?, viewing angle?, etc.)

 

hmmm...they look nice. Tony has started a new craze.

 

Beautiful...now someone make me some for my 5th gen!

 

They came out great. Excellent job, glad I could inspire people


Tony

 

Thanks All...Tony, u have one the best maximas, u definetly inspire people haha.

I got the LED's off eBay, they were 5000mcd, 3.1 volts, and other crap i didnt care about. There's no circuit board or anything. Theres just plexiglass with holes in them, and the LED are placed into the holes. Then it wired out in the back.
The resistors came with the LED, cuz i bought so many, he gave them to me free. You cant see the resistors through the lense, or anything else.

 

What color plexiglass?
What is the plexiglass attached to?
Were the LED's red or white?

 

Looks very nice and good job! Hope others in MA will get to check them out in person.

Tony will be the leader in LED customizing!

Too bad nobody tried this with the 95-96 and 5th gen yet.