lmidden

im gonna attempt to make custom lights in the shape of the chevy bowtie and a mirrored image of it for the passenger side of the car. it will have one for brake and running lights alternating leds for them. the next one inside of it will be for reverse. and the third inside of it will be for turn signals and 4 ways. i have started to fill the void were the black stripe is so i can make a negative of the lenses.

lmidden

stock taillights are temporarly filled to make a mold of the lenses need to pickup a heat gun to shape the lexan. all the leds and resistors are ordered just need to wait for them

lmidden

oh yea this is what im planning on doing the tops is drivers and the bottom is passenger. the black bowtie is what is going to be reverse lights. the bowties are gonna fit alot nicer in each other with led

Jersey89GTA

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I got a whole bunch of these bowties if you need some.

Selling them 2/$12 inc shipping.

lmidden

im making the bowties out of led when i get them. do you think the taillights would look mirrored like that in the pic i posted or them both facing the regular way

Jersey89GTA

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Either way wb cool, mirrored seems more custom IMO.

Post up some finished pics and how you built it, neat project.

lmidden

made a basic negative for the pass side today gonna do the same for drivers tommorrow using some of the lexan i have

lmidden

got the second negative done the leds should start arriving soon

lmidden

recieved the amber leds, 100ohn, 470ohn, and 1.5k ohm resistors in the mail today. now just have to wait for the red leds, white leds, and the 220 ohm resistor

lmidden

got everything and finished seeing how bright they accually are. whites going to be 3 leds with 1 220 ohm resistor reds are going to be 3 led 1.5k resistors for running and 470 ohm resistors for brake lights. and ambers are going to have 470 resistors. definately gonna notice the lights when done

Dabesiv

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I'd like to see how this turns out, I had a similar idea months ago and never followed through

lmidden

cut the pieces were the leds are gonna get mounted in got 48 of 146 drilled. theres gonna be 48 10mm red leds for brake and running, 56 5mm white leds for reverse, and 42 10mm amber leds for turn signals. per lense

lmidden

heres the led holders for the taillights all the holes drilled into it gonna paint it black so you can see the leds clearly

bowtietilidie

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looks cool so far!

lmidden

hopefully by the end of the night i will have at least the brake and running in one of the lenses and working

lmidden

heres some pics of it now. 1st pic is the running light circuit with 9 volts 2nd pic is how the leds are wired together

lmidden

reverse lights on the taillights couple leds not lit bc i didnt solder them at that point just twisted it around the power feed.

lmidden

heres brake and reverse on.

FirebirdJim94

looking good keep it coming

NotsosleepyZ

those are looking really good man

lmidden

almost finished one led set up ran out of wire

lmidden

heres a video of the taillights 1 panel is finished showing running brake reverse and turn
http://s260.photobucket.com/user/lmi...03409.mp4.html

Dabesiv

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If I wasn't so happy with sequential lights this would be my on my to do list. Very impressive!!

Arvizu9618

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lmidden

to think i got the idea while just drawing random stuff in school

Richboll

Those look pretty good. Looking forward to seeing them when you have them mounted and functional.

lmidden

i may also make led bowties for the front turn signals

lmidden

ordered up led for the front turn signals and marker lights

lmidden

front turn signals for my car

Richboll

Interesting. Let's see what they look like installed.

lmidden

i would but its not finish yet and i actually dont have a bumper for the car

Richboll

All in good time....but we still want to see some pictures!

lmidden

my question is if ones like these were being sold how much would people pay for them.

excessiveego

what id like to see are some nice sequential LED taillights that cost less than $700

If you can find a cost effective way to make LED taillights there would definitely be a market, albeit a niche market, but still a market.

cz28coptzer327

.. more pics more pics!!

Dabesiv

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I have LED sequential tails in my Camaro right now, they are not a full LED board like OP, but LED bulbs. If you did the same light board style and use BigBadLou's sequential system on the power supply you have yourself a sequential LED board for decent price.

cz28coptzer327

do you have pics of those?... that has to look awesome..

Dabesiv

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RS/SS 4.8

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Thats pretty neat^^^

TheIgnitious

I love this without a doubt. Do you think it's possible to pull the controller off a newer stang or even 64-70 T-Bird?

Dabesiv

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I can't see why not, but it's hard to beat $56 for one that is custom built and that is known to work without all the guesswork. Just my $0.02.

83 Crossfire TA

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where do you get $56?

Dabesiv

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I can't find the original thread, but BigBadLou makes them and ships them for $56 and gives you instructions too. He was even nice enough to walk me through on the phone as the wires in '82 were a little different.

As far as I know, this is the last thread written about them, it is a bit dated but he may still have a few left.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/elec...als-batch.html

Dabesiv

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btw, this is not a whole new taillight system, just a small device you run all of your wiring through to alter how the taillights function. As you may have noticed in the video, I have no stock reverse light due to this and had to make my own, other than that, they are great, haven't had an issue yet.

TheIgnitious

Another question... All of the sections appear red in the video... Is this a particular year model??? or custom?

Dabesiv

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custom, you can have a paint shop do it for you, but I just bought VHT red and blackout. Painted the turn signal and reverse lights red until all the lenses were the same shade and then blacked them all out.

Blue 90 RS

I've been looking at these for my '90:

Spaghetti Engineering Digi-Tails

There's a video clip on the page that shows them "in action". Price is $319.00 plus shipping.