carcrazyboy68

ok so i want to know if ne one here knows how to make your own led brake lights? what i want to do is make my own design and incorporate it into my brake lights.

lcrazyaznl

iTrader: (1)

I think peregrine retrofitted a pair of tailights but he said the light output was poor.

Another person took the taillights of a land rover and retrofitted them into the housing.

They looked great.

feuss2

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Are you tail lights, brake lights or everything?

carcrazyboy68

i mostly want to do the tail/brake lights. i dont like the solid look. i like the look like the g 35

aCUREa

Interesting,

One thing that I noticed with the LED reverse lights (which have housings and reflectors almost identical to the brake lights) is that the tower style LEDs don't emit light out of the backs of the bulbs and are therefore not that noticeable at all because they don't illuminate the reflectors. Incan bulbs have a true 360 degree viewing angle whereas even the '360 degree' tower LEDs don't.

So you'll need your bulbs to emit light toward the socket.

When you say "incorporate LEDs into brake lights," do you mean that you're using a combo of incan and LEDs? That might be a good idea because you'll have the true 360 degree light emission that incan bulbs provide PLUS the radiance of LEDs.

But if you don't want a 'solid' look, you might want to do away with the reflectors behind all together because they distribute light. Take a look at the pics on this thread here:
https://acurazine.com/forums/1g-tsx-photograph-gallery-127/tsx-fury-led-taillights-pictures-665264/

^^I like those a lot, and they look more infiniti-ish. You might want to try something similar.

Anyway, good luck with the construction of your bulbs, and keep us posted with your progress.

Peregrine

lol.. where did you get that from Jeff? I did no such thing. I added LEDs that were supposed to work as rear fog light, but because of a combination of things, they really didn't do the job. So now I'm getting back to this project, but it'll be of a much bigger scale. I'll post details afterwords in our place.
Oh, and yeah, it's me, Peregrine.

feuss2

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will you share some info (including pics) on how you opened up the tail lights and re-sealed them?

Peregrine

I'm not going to open tail lights. I'm not mounting anymore LEDs in there. That route didn't work for me. My project is not focused on LED lights, but on rear fog light functionality. Not the type of fog light that euro and JDM cars have, I don't want to lose my reverse light, I'm basically upgrading my rear lamps so the middle light (parklight) will be 2-stage, not just 1-stage.

ACURA`TL`TYPE-$

lol How funny i bumped into this page (totally random) I am actually about to finish a pair of cl tail lights, with some leds on it. I ll post some pics.

lcrazyaznl

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ah whoops i thought yours were brake lights cuz they were red lol...

samnguyen

What up carcrazyboy68? good luck with that man. I tried it last year and its a pain in the azz to get the tail light apart.

ACURA`TL`TYPE-$

you gotta cut them open and its a bitch unless you got a dremell

feuss2

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do you have any close-up pics of lenses that you have cut/resealed? or any of the work in process?

Racing Gear

Since Jeff mentioned my set up, here it is...




I also did dual stage like peregrine mentioned...all four lights light up as parking lights at reduced output and all four lights light up at full brightness when I hit the brakes.

Some additional pics:

samnguyen

looking good bro. where you get em lights at?

Mokos23

i would've done the infiniti LED taillight patterns, but that's just me.