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Sept. 28 update**

K i got lazy and im saving up for my Vegas trip. LED tail light bulbs I WILL NOT BE GETTING because the diameter of the bulb will not fit through the stock tail socket. it needs to be enlarged a for the bulb to fit, this i dont think i want to do because it might not have a water tight seal anymore. At $25 each bulb 1157 and 1156, i just dont feel like wasting that much $$$$. The LED headlights i will buy eventually

My friends shop just got LED boards with a universal pigtail for festoon type and other different types. 16 led board at $25 each unit. I will buy atleast 5 boards and sell them if anyone's interest.

This post has been edited by 808celica: Sep 28, 2009 - 3:19 PM

Hey Jon that is looking really good. I especially like the gauge lights, and those are not SMD or they are? I just looked at the pics to be honest. You did some nice work there though, I love the white.

nice

hey i really want those white leds behind the tach, how do you do that? and what size bulbs go back there? how do you access them?

did you ever find this out yet? I've got a BA9s on the way to see if it will work

This post has been edited by schmooot: Mar 26, 2010 - 12:06 PM

LOL nope as soon as i lost sight of this thread on the first page i stopped caring.

i can confirm
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pics and suppliers on the bulbs?

This post has been edited by JasonTX: Mar 29, 2010 - 1:57 AM

FUll list in the first post well atleast the stuff i was changing

This post has been edited by 808celica: Mar 29, 2010 - 2:34 AM

Got some new LED boards from my friends shop.
LMK if you guys want a set. THESE ARE REALLY BRIGHT 6 SMD chip LED boards for 194 or festoon type

"Official!!!! 1156 LED bulbs DO NOT FIT in my reverse tails location. The bulb is slightly bigger and wont fit in i could enlarge the hole a little but i dont know if water will get in. So im leaving that, i might also have to leave teh rest of the tail bulbs alone if this is the case."

hey man were you able to get any led for the parking/reverse lights? if so what size and where. by the way nice led board

What brand did you buy? The ones I got from superbrightleds.com are a tight fit but they work in both the USDM and the JDM tails and they have 12 LED'S so they are pretty big!

This would solve the problem with bulbs not fitting in the housing, and I'd rather post the idea in the thread where a lot of people have subscribed that are obviously interested in LED lighting in their celicas, just to see what everyone thinks of my idea.

Since I know how to plastic weld, I've been thinking about getting a bunch of 12v LED's and using my coupe lights as a test bed for a complete redo of the bulb housing for the lights, putting in rows of bright LED's for everything. Of course the lens would not be touched or melted at all, and since it's a modified stock taillight it would still have the DOT stamp on it. And then possibly selling mine for cash + trade for more coupe lights, and then make another set and keep making them and selling them to forum members. I would have to get a set of hatchback lights too so I could set up those. It's been on my mind for about a year now, maybe sell them for $100 a set with the trade, or maybe $150 w/o trade. I would just need to find a good place to get good LED's from. Ones that can fluctuate between 12.5 - 14.7 volts without burning out and are crazy bright. And if I can get a long enough list of people that are interested then I can buy LED's and other materials in bulk and cut cost a bit. I would of course try it on mine first and research some stable LED's to use in cars.

And I would have to figure out if I should try a design or just go with rows. For the coupe I thought about two half circles for the running lights which would get brighter for braking, and the bottom half of the circles would be 1 reverse and one turn signal, but I haven't even drawn it up to see what it would look like, that might be a bad idea all together. Maybe I could do rows, anyone have any LED placement ideas that might look good and could they can photoshop dots on a picture of the taillights of their car and email me? I'll give a discount..lol.

This post has been edited by match220: Aug 26, 2010 - 4:15 AM

Whoo, late reply (:

I'm lovin that. The LED's really look better than the stupid, bulky neon tubes I have. So are those strips from Vled? I want to have door accents like that. I'm also tryin to find some in purple for under the dash and a couple other places, but I'm hesitant to use any website with no reference. And are the holding up ok? Just curious

-Neil

how much of a difference is the wed 5 WED Led bulbs vs the 5 SMD Led bulbs?

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/led-veh...62-341--108181/

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Jul 15, 2014 - 9:20 PM

Which models in particular?

Get whatever spreads the light better. SMD's are better in this case with their 120 angle of view.
You can see hot spots in all colors, but some are more noticeable, so be prepared.

The lens will scatter the light, any viewing angle should work with the oem lens to diffuse it. I would actually suggest something lower like 45 to 90 degree depending on how deeply they sit in the housing and how much they cover the entire lens, a wider angle will waste more light illuminating the black sides of the housing. Ive been using 15 degree LEDs no problem.
SMDs are more powerful for their size and consumption, probably because they are cooled better by using the board as a heatsink

ah now I understand what you guys mean. the 5 SMD LED cover 360 degree and the 5 LED Wide cover 220 degree

im deciding between the 194 LED Bulb - 5 SMD LED Wide Angle Wedge Base and 194 LED Bulb - 5 LED Wide Angle Wedge Base

edit: yes box i noticed it. but why creat a new thread when this one already exists.

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Jul 16, 2014 - 4:48 PM

I guess no one else noticed the last post was 3.5 years ago.