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Old 07-08-09, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by kikaida
Wow the LED looks great!

If you wanted to make the wires exiting the housing less, you could have solder the leds in parallel or series. Recalculate the right resistor and solder some wires instead of have a whole bunch coming out of the housing.
LED guide in this LINK
Only if I knew anything about what you just said. lol.
Old 07-08-09, 07:22 PM
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good JOB!!!!!!!! i want to see the night time pics and post the link for the fog light retrofit, im lazy today!
Old 07-08-09, 09:37 PM
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nice... really nice
Old 07-08-09, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by MiamiIS350
Only if I knew anything about what you just said. lol.
LOL ok you can go from many wires to just two wires.
Old 07-08-09, 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by jns350
damn Tommy...that is so cool. Now I feel my turn signal dual changing light mod is old news compare to your fog retro and led insert mod. I'm glad your local so I can check this out.....when you coming over next time??? can't wait.
Haha, nah your changing light mod is still sick. I don't even have it. When is the next meet? I won't be at BOS cause I am going to be away for training during that time, leaving this Saturday actually.

Originally Posted by yayitscola
wow...so um how much you want to charge us local people to do this project
Haha, I'll see, or I can just guide you...right? I wasn't planning to charge people, but I'll see how many people wanna do it first.

Originally Posted by Phanatik
That is damn sick! But I don't have the ***** to do that project. Where are you located again?? haha.
I am located in Norcal, Oakland

Originally Posted by fluxx
ahhh someone beat me to this. i was in the middle of working on this. looks great bro! would you mind take some pictures when you get it mounted on the car and possibly some pictures that are a little further out.

you could of used these holders though to keep the led's in place.

http://cgi.ebay.com/20x-5mm-5-mm-LED...3A1%7C294%3A50

http://cgi.ebay.com/5-mm-LED-Holders...3A1%7C294%3A50
Yeah I've seen that on ebay. But it looks a little too big. If I use that I won't be able to fit that much LEDs on there.

Originally Posted by ExTrEmE99
Very Nice! I thought about this, but using the circuit board led construction.

Any photos of the LEDs installed just not turned on?
Yeah having a circuit board is much cleaner and simpler, but I have no idea how to mess with it. Plus its kinda of hard to fit a circuit board too because that part of the shroud is curved.

Originally Posted by rs/ss
Well done.

I would also like to see front view of leds installed but without power. How do you remove the projectors? Looking forward to pics :-)
I will get you that pic very soon.
Old 07-08-09, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by ExTrEmE99
Very Nice! I thought about this, but using the circuit board led construction.

Any photos of the LEDs installed just not turned on?
Originally Posted by rs/ss
Well done.

I would also like to see front view of leds installed but without power. How do you remove the projectors? Looking forward to pics :-)
Here are some pics of it off, sorry it is kind of dark, I'll try to take better ones tomorrow.




Originally Posted by 350PsDMeuP
good JOB!!!!!!!! i want to see the night time pics and post the link for the fog light retrofit, im lazy today!
Sorry this pic isn't that great too.



Here's the link to the retro

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...ro-teaser.html

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...ally-done.html
Old 07-08-09, 10:28 PM
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damn you should have retro-ed the main fogs too!1

whoops my bad.. didn't see that... looking sick there!1
Old 07-08-09, 10:52 PM
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Yea, looks alright but not great, just not worth the hassle.
Old 07-08-09, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by FrankyX
Yea, looks alright but not great, just not worth the hassle.
What's considered great for a DIY under less than 100 bucks for a mod worth 1000.00?

Meet up so you can guide everyone into doing this is norcal?
Old 07-08-09, 11:00 PM
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Dang, that looks nice!
Old 07-09-09, 12:19 AM
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yea, that switch was a nice fit
Old 07-09-09, 08:29 AM
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that is pure SEX i wanna try, i wanna try.
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Excellent Job!
Old 07-09-09, 09:34 AM
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nice work, the only thing i would have done diffrent is soder all those wires along with heat shrink.
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Originally Posted by 2slow
NICE WRITE UP!. Definitely going to do this.

What did you connect it to for the power? Any wire diagrams?
Almost forgot about your wiring diagram.

Here is a pic of it that I got from the seller on ebay.



Here is his listing

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...lenotsupported


He has a ebay store, so he has a lot.

For the ones who wants to do the mod that turns your fogs on without the headlights being on you can use this harness. All you need is to get a switch for it like how I did for the LEDs. Unless you want to use the tacky looking switch that is provided with the wire harness.

All you have to do is connect the ends to your power and ground wire that connects to your ballast ( If you are running HIDs). For the ones who aren't using HIDs for fogs. Just purchase 9006 female connectors and connect to the end of the harness and plug it into your bulbs and you are good.

Here's how it looks like.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/9006-...lenotsupported


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