was just out in the garage, wiring up my new driving lights and decided to take some pictures, so i thought i'd share them with you all

they're all a bit blurry, which is weird cuz i was really still and this camera is usually great

 

interior shot (drivers side)

 

passenger side

 

Looks good, great lookin car too, got any other pics of your car, as a whole?

 

and just a shot to show one of the neon tubes

 

Are you a nervous guy.

 

 

oh yah.. i got the shakes real bad, mista.

 

by the way.. heres more whole car shots, marko

 

dontcha hate how you can only post 1 post every 30 seconds.. im sure most people haven't noticed.. but im pretty damned sure our marcus has.
hehe

> > I just noticed i hit 100 posts. yay me, go senior membership!

 

I like it! I'm sure they look even better in person. The first time I rode in a truck with blue neons under the seats I though it was the coolest ever. Nice wheels too, they look expensive.

 

yeah the neons look amazing in real life, but in photo, the edges are harder, so they only seem to cover small patches of ground.

and yeah the wheels were pretty expensive. it works out to about 2 grand american, not including some $1600US tires which i managed to get for $660US

 

I like, where under there did you put the neons?

 

if you take a look at the 3rd pic you can see one of the side tubes.. just right after where the body moulding stops underneath.

the front tube is mounted directly infront of the spoiler (hense the shadow under the car) and the rear is just strapped where it fit.

the whole thing is held up by zap-straps and i just noticed when i was taking the photos that a wire is hanging down! time for another strap methinks. :P

 

what kind of underbody lights did you use?

how much did they cost each? I take it you used 4 in total?

what exactly holds the light to the underbody?

what is the powersource and how did you get to the powersource?

i think it looks awesome and i'm going to put some blue ones on in a few weeks after seeing this post.

 

Sweet, looks exactly like mine...

 

i bought an underbody neons kit from a local audio/video/stero install type store called "beamriders". the kits are also available around here at a store called A&B sound.. so i assume stores like it in the US probably carry them too.

the all the lights are wired to a box (part of the kit) which is grounded and wired to the car's battery. a switch under my dash is wired to the box as well which allows me to turn the lights on and off with ease.

as i mentioned before, the lights are strapped to the car using zap straps. if you dont know what those are, they're the little plastic straps that are usually wrapped around the power chord of a piece of electronic equpment that you'd buy. you feed one end through the loop at the other end, and it only gets tighter.

im glad i've inspired you to get some of your own. i dont remember who made the kit, and i've long since thrown away the box. it was on sale for $199.99 CAN when i got it, but i didn't buy it.. it was an X-MAS present from a friend. the kit came with 4 bulbs (2 sides and 2 front/back bulbs), the control box, a switch, and some wiring.

 

Not a fan of neons but other than that I like your car. Wheels are sweet.

 

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I have thought about getting a kit. Looks nice, but I almost dont want to get blue now(I dont like having my car look just like someone elses, unless mine was first ). Maybe purple.

Brian

 

i still like them

 

hmm, those are the first neons i've seen that I like, cool car!

 

I wish my neon worked..broke a bulb goin to the fbody gathering in kentucky..gotta send it back to streetglow..i think they have a lifetime warrantee..get a new one for free..altho this is the second one i've broke....

 

looks great!!

 

with it that dark out it will be hard to take good pics, esp if you have a camera with variable shutter speed or are using 800 speed film. Nice underbody kit though

 

that looks really good man

 

nice ****in car and nice ****in rims

 

beautiful job man, beautiful car as well.

im sure you probably dont want to hear this but do some searching on google or something for underbody LED's. i used to have green underbody's on on eof my old cars. then i heard about underbody LED's. a ***** shop down the street sells them for like 400 bucks. well on google a firend of mien found out how to make them. it cost us a total of about 50 bucks, and compared to our neons they were much brighter. go to like a radio shack and spend liek 10 bucks on LEDs if yo uhave any experience with wood you can make a few LED light bars really quick. the only thing u need the google site for is for resistor size, and it tells you how to hook up a mini computer that lets you make the Leds scroll back and forth like the nightrider thing. you can have them flash independently, chase each other. it look sso awesome at night. look into it man they are so much brighter then neons and less of a chance of breaking.

 

What he said...........

 

nice pics
almost makes me want to get neons...almost
biker

 

what kind of camera did you use to take those?

i have yet to find a good way to film the neons, probably doesn't help not using a digital though...

they always look like this.

 

or this.......

 

that was strange.....here's what i meant.

 

this is the best i've been able to get a regular film camera to take...still not what i want though.

 

hey kandied,

i used a fuji digital camera for the photos sorry.

but i can offer one piece of advise... you cant wait until complete dark to take the photos. most cameras dont have a large enough lens to capture a large amount of light in darkness (like what's lit up by the flash), so the best time to take photos of your neon is when you can just start to notice that they're turned on.

unfortunately, the neons aren't at they're brightest at this point, but hey.. i got quite a few very nice compliments about mine!
P.s. your car (and its paint job) blows me away!

Thanks everyone, for your compliments. it means a lot.

 

Great looking car. The only thing you might want to do is cut back those exhaust tips. But other than that I like it.

 

Looks super sweet.

 

I can appreciate that YOU might cut back the tips, if they were on your car...

personally i like how they look, and it sweet how the neon reflects off of them

but thanks for the compliment n'stuff.

 

must make it easier to step up and clean the rear spoiler.........

beautiful car though.

 

step up on the pipes!?! you must be joking!

lol.. when i first got the car, some jerk... (okay, it was me) closed the garage door on them... bent one down a bit.

doesn't notice any more though. hehe

(AND MY SPOILER ISN'T THAT HIGH!! IT'S STOCK ON THE 92's!!!)

heh heh

 

Dude the exhast in that pic looks badass the way the tips and smoke is blue i like em long like that looks nice and ya dont get black **** on ya bumper like the stock muffler

 

i'm sorry, i don't want to put your car down but it just looks terrible........ i want to be nice about it because your car is nice looking but those pipes are just rediculous.

if you keep the engine in good running shape there shouldn't be any residue on the bumper and even if you can't manage that you could wash it once an a while so it doesn't "stain" the paint.

i'm trying to be nice about the whole thing, but i can't possibly see how that looks good in any way. you might as well add a trailer hitch to the back as well. such a beautiful car and you go and do something like that; it's a shame....

change those pipes and it would definately be up there in the few birds i wouldn't mind owning....otherwise i'd have to leave it in the garage. it's just one of those things where you see it and you don't want to say anything bad because the rest of the car is so nice; but deep down inside you know you should.

 

completely fair enough.

in fact, i didn't even put those tips on, the last owner did. i probably wouldn't even have gone to the effort of installing them, had they not already been on there.

but like i said above, i like the tips enough NOT to take them off. the exhaust staining the bumper would not be an issue to me, as i wash my car religiously.

i think you should ignore the pipes, as you had nothing but nice compliments before you saw them. i dont think exhaust tips are a very large part of a car, and most people dont even notice. I will not be losing any sleep over having a car that's not one of the few that you "wouldn't mind owning".. because she's mine and i'm never going to sell her.


im sorry i put you through such mental anguish and torture by having a nice car with "terrible" tips.

laf

>> by the way, kandied, just for the record, i'd love to own your car cuz it's sweet!

 

well i'm glad to see your not to upset over my comment. i just thought it should be said since most are probably thinking the same way.

you can easily have the tips sized back for less than 5-10 bucks and it would look 1,000 times better. your just asking for some high school punk to jump on one.

you may think most people won't notice and in first glances at the pictures i didn't. but i guarantee that in person everyone notices and most probably don't want to upset you or hurt your feelings.

it is a nice car and there is no reason to focus on such a small detail. unfortunately it's little details such as those that make a nice car a great car. after all you should do what you like; i just couldn't sleep at night telling you that it's "ok". guarantee you fix them and you'll get alot more compliments; but your happiness should be all that matters and not opinions of others.

 

The Tips do look pritti big.

I dont think I could do it on mine...

 

the steve looks great!
now i think im gonna go get red neons for my car......everyone was telling my that it was ***** but i disagreed. i think that neon looks sweet and would add to the red in my new paint job and go good with my red interior.
also i dont think that the tips look too bad. its different and nice looking. but it is true that some ******* would go and jump on it and bend the hell out of it.
well looks great
bub

 

Those neons look great on the underbody, but I'm not a big fan of the interior ones.

Sweet ride though

 

i just keep picturing this guy.........

:lala:


jumping between them as if they were diving boards.

 

Yeah.. i get it... you dont like the pipes.

do note, though, that the picture i posted is taken from bumper level. the tips dont look quite as long from up top.

frankly im pretty happy with the amount of compliments i got, and i dont think i'd get too many more if i lost the tips. seems you're the only one who feels so strongly.. which i can live with.

anyways, point taken, you needn't go to any further lengths to communicate that you dont like the tips. dont worry... when those rust spots creep up to where you can see them, i'll buy new tips. they'll be fatter and shorter. i'll go out of my way to send you a picture.

really!? i love the interior neons! i cant imagine having a car and not having the neons in anymore. they make it so cozy in there... plus the car is way too dark without any other light sources. and the blue matches my cd deck just oh so perfectly. meh.. im glad for the compliment tho

 

lol steve, way to defend the **** outta ur car hehe

As usual, car is lookin good. And like I said the other day its still lower than mine :*(

 

speaking of YOUR CAR.. when are we gonna see some pictures dood!