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1069 Views 15 Replies 7 Participants Last post by  sinhumane
:confused: Moderator please move to exterior forum. Sorry bout that.

Make your own. Push a hard peice of something straight like coathanger sized into the little rivets that hold the light housings in. Push them out from the inside. Go into your garage. Bust out all the old yellow plastic. Replace with plexiglass. Buy at home depot or wherever. Get LEDs and holders get 4qty. 5mm white 3.6v LEDs from radio shack and a 12 power adapter. Whatever you can get to convert 12v to 3v is fine but radioshack has a thing that adapts from cig lighter to ac adapter style plug it is a multi adapter thing that allows you to select 3v 6v 9v or 12v so set it to 3v and dont change it or else you will blow your LEDs and that will suck. Make a LED bracket from plexiglass too drill 1/4" holes in it and use LED holders, put 2-3 LEDs in each one depending on your liking (2 is way bright enough). Wire the LEDs parallel which means positive to positive and negative to negative. Put the smallest fuse you can find on the 3V side of this, I could only find 12v 1a but smaller would be better. Aim the leds in \ / so they hit the plate good. Use clear rtv silicone to seal it up. Im sure you can figure this one out. Ill post pics sooner or later. BTW yes it looks badass way better than old junky yellow.
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I just orderd a set of 5 led per bulb lights off of ebay for my plates for 8$ shipped should be here tomorrow. Thanks for the write up though! I will also post pics up soon. Funny how people think of this stuff at the same time lol, Good luck with them I bet it looks nice.
i was considering getting a small led bar and installign it on that lip... would end up being brighter than my taillights.
Yeah..I just bought led style 194 bulbs off ebay too. It was really easy!!
Got any pics of night, before & after?
I can probably get a night pic tonight.
Im still waiting for mine then I would be glad to put some pics up. I have seen these on other cars, mostly infinitys and I like how it looks.
Still light outside! haha - but i cna't wait to see them!
even if you buy 194 led lights you need to replace the plastic. unless you have new ones your light lenses are totally yellow and cracked throughout. I have 3 tbirds I know for sure. So still change the plastic to clear plexiglass.:idea:
you gotta go to the website here to see the pics anglefire wont let you link images

http://www.crappyassanglefire.com
even if you buy 194 led lights you need to replace the plastic. unless you have new ones your light lenses are totally yellow and cracked throughout. I have 3 tbirds I know for sure. So still change the plastic to clear plexiglass.:idea:
mine are still clear....

also, I changed the color of my license plate lights....I put a red gel above the lense...worked out nice.
red would get me pulled down herr in fla. you can have any color lights but red or blue on your car down here. I do wayyy to much illegal stuff in this car to have anything else that will get me pulled over. I already have straight pipes with no resonator so... bad bird nice engine i see 351W or C? u got a link for ur mods?
red would get me pulled down herr in fla. you can have any color lights but red or blue on your car down here. I do wayyy to much illegal stuff in this car to have anything else that will get me pulled over. I already have straight pipes with no resonator so...
I guess you've never seen my car then....its far from legal..
not bad... i was at autozone last night, and i found a little thing that uses your top two screws and has a bar across... goes over your liscense plate. white led's./ i imagine they make it in different colors...
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