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Recently I decided to put blinkers in my side mirrors. I think it will look great and make the car appear a bit more up to date, so to speak.
Just a teaser with a random piece of plexi put in place.

Nice! You and I have similar tastes.. ^That is something I've wanted to do that for awhile now.

Thanks, man. I'll be buying LEDs tomorrow and hopefully have finished pictures soon.

Looks great! would like to see a night pic.

That looks so good... Want to make me a set if they work out well

haha Good job man... You really are a jack of all trades here

Bring on the pics when its working - great job for actually following through!!!

I have actually thought about selling sets, if the turn out good. The only problem I see is supplying the mirror casing. I'll have to scour the junkyards.

I'd be in for a set (Unless they are like $500 haha)

I don't expect The_enD to post today, he should be out doing high-speed runs.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=152021

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Jul 15, 2013 - 6:30 AM

looks reaaly good so far !

Looking for some opinions, guys. I want one nice and long line of non disrupted light, but it seems impossible to achieve with LEDs, there are always spots. I might settle down to a bunch of LEDs pack tightly, like in this test piece bellow.



Edit : Would look something like this(the orange one), I think it will be nice.



This post has been edited by The_enD: Jul 21, 2013 - 2:01 PM

That would look nice

if you wanted a continuous light I would be looking into EL strip / wire

While I am waiting on LEDs to be shipped.

Holy rock chips. 100+



Also shaving the hood spoiler and window washers.

I remember something that was done in the not so distant past for angel eyes. They used to put a led into an acrylic tube. The light would evenly distribute thoughout the tube and appear as if it was nowadays' CCFL halo eyes or whatever you call them.

I remember that the only issue is it working at daytime in a not-so-efficient manner because a single LED is just not bright enough, but that was the case with halos. Give that you're using a thicker strip, you could get it to work. Here's a description:

"[...]

Essentially, they take arcrylic rods that are used with window blinds, heat and bend them, notch them with a dremel, and put a LED in each side.

The biggest issue is the collimation of the beam, and trying to make the end of the rod fit the LED snugly and perfectly clearly. I think someone suggested clear nail polish between the two. You want all of the light from the LED to go into the rod in a roughly narrow pattern. Best to use relatively high-power LEDs (not 5mm 20mA crap, at least get a 4-chip or 5-chip Cree or Superflux)"

Thanks for the info, Syaoran.

I've been doing more shaving and body work recently.

No more spoiler and washers


A lot of rock damage, About 100+




Fiberglass putty




Normal putty


Prepped the roof as well. I'll post pictures of it later. It's mad!


Washed the 16y old dirt


Done




I also converted the climate control unit to all white LED SMD.


This post has been edited by The_enD: Aug 8, 2013 - 10:30 AM

New paint combo, sorry for the not so good phone pictures, my camera broke.

Nice!

Thanks, guys.

I made some progress on the mirrors.




And a video:


This post has been edited by The_enD: Aug 19, 2013 - 11:55 AM