Redoing ALL my lights, 8/26/2010 update NEW PRODUCT! Options

[808celica]

Doing a FULL LED bulb swap. Only thing im not doing is the clock, climate control, and low beams.
Found 9006 Led bulbs, i want to know if anyone has played with something like that?? friends have them on their VIP cars and i kinda like it. rarely use my highs so this would be nice to have all lights on without blinding people.

Bought 16pc LED VIP Puddle lights. Was thinking about custom making clear side mirror lens' with 2 yellow LEDs for turns and 2 white LEDs for when i open my doors and unlock with alarm.

Ordered 20pcs or 194 leds. white color 5leds on one bulb. shoots 360`
3 for gauge(current leds dont cut it)
2 or sidemarkers
2 for rears
2 for courtesy lights

and the rest for my ideas

ordered 2 green and 2 white LED flexible and waterproof strips 90cm in length. will post my idea later
anyone know the replacement # for the Map 293 bulb in LED??? also the LED festoon # for the hatch courtesy light??

going to purchase 15 74 size led all white
1 for glove
1 for coin
1 for key ring
rest for gauge

anyone know if the 1157 Red LED and White and Yellow need that add on resistors??? i kinda like the Hyper-blinking with led turns. what is the 3rd stoplight bulb??
-4 yellow
-4 Red (i think, 2 each taillight)
-2 White for the backups
Confirm thats all i need for the tails and signals???

Wrap up
Exterior:
2 9006 white LED highs
front 2 yellow 1157 LED signals
front 2 194 white corners
rear 2 194 tail corners
rear 2 yellow 1157
rear 4 red 1157
rear 2 white 1157
2 194 white license plate
Interior:
3 194 gauge white
2 194 courtesy white
1 74 glove
1 74 coin
1 74 key ring
IIRC 12 74 in gauges

Ideas for the LED strips(will post later)
Change out CCFL green tubes for white 2 front and 2 rear

Still need to #size for:
MAP
Hatch festoon courtesy light
3rd Brale light



Might also try the LED Boards for the tails and Map

This post has been edited by 808celica: Aug 16, 2010 - 2:36 PM

[match220]

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