I'm nearly done replacing the original nasty red interior with a sexy new black one. Since I don't have any of the parts necessary to have an interior lamp (you know, the light between the T-Tops), and the new headliner I got doesn't have the cutout for it, I figured I'll make my own interior lighting.

I'd like to do LED's... maybe a dozen total all around the interior. But I have a few questions:
-Can the LED's be daisy-chained easily?
-Can I get a resistor or something like that, so that I can power the LED's with the cables originally for the lights on the kick panels? (Those lights have to go.)
-Are there such things as flat LED's? I know that there are flat-topped LEDs, but I need something really thin as well. If not, I'll just have to be creative.

Thanks.

 

i have one LED mounted in my rearview mirror.. above teh shifter.

its a white LED that i dulled slightly with a fog of black paint.
it shines a dim beam only on the shifter, when the gauge lights are on. its recessed into the mirror, so theres no side light for you to see outside the car either...


that way, i can always see the shifter, even on a pitchblack night... and its not bright enough for 90% of people to notice.



i got the idea from C5 vettes....