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Old 10-26-2009, 05:34 AM
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thread is getting kinda hijacked lol but lookin' good steven! Hope you have a thread full of pics today!
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Old 10-26-2009, 10:02 PM
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OK guys, my new pictures and thread are done....enjoy!

https://acurazine.com/forums/3g-tl-photograph-gallery-96/new-headlight-leds-buda-man-749893/
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Old 10-27-2009, 09:20 AM
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Def one of my winter projects....
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Old 10-27-2009, 01:14 PM
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IMO, our headlights don't pull it off well, there just too thin. Angels on the other hand.. YES
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Old 10-27-2009, 01:40 PM
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i disagree, i feel the led strip flows better with our sleek headlights, and flows well with the lines of the car.
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Old 10-27-2009, 03:52 PM
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I'm with drastic on that one, it feels so natural on our cars when done right.
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Old 10-27-2009, 09:25 PM
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Guys, I've got to say-it's a very classy look. I feel like it's a total upgrade.
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Old 10-27-2009, 09:48 PM
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woooooooooo fiyah i might try this on my sexy tl
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Old 10-27-2009, 11:32 PM
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Hmn.... One Angel-Eye per headlight or L.E.D strips..........
Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Mo...

I think both look good.
L.E.D strip look really nice a little more spaced out.
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:14 PM
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^^^When you see them in person, you'll love it. Pictures don't do it justice.
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Old 10-28-2009, 09:26 PM
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^^^When you see them in person, you'll love it. Pictures don't do it justice.
I think I'm going to go L.E.Ds! =o
Kind of broke right now... but I'm going to try to take this L.E.D thing to quote "a whole 'notha level" unquote.
Was thinking about it on the way home... I have the ideas and such already in my head. =]
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I bought my LED's on www.Oznium.com. I think the 2 foot strip was $30.00 each.
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Old 10-28-2009, 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Steven Bell
I bought my LED's on www.Oznium.com. I think the 2 foot strip was $30.00 each.
It's pretty inexpensive...
But if I do this... I'm thinking about a thin custom diffuser that would house individual L.E.Ds.... pretty ambitious I think. haha
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Old 04-30-2010, 03:40 PM
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those strip looks amazing!.. does your tl has both the strip and angel eye on them? i am just wondering how they will look like.
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^^^^I just have LED's, no Angel Eyes. Maybe Komodo does.
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Old 05-01-2010, 10:15 AM
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Damn, old thread bump, lol.
On my previous headlights I had led strips and angel eyes wired to two separate switches; I never turned both on at the same time because quite honestly, it's ugly. lol.







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Old 05-01-2010, 10:18 AM
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Can't forget this one.... epic!

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Old 05-01-2010, 11:09 AM
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Those look awesome, where did you buy them from?
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Old 05-01-2010, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by bforbrian
Can't forget this one.... epic!

those look awesome...they look bigger and more spaced out than those side emitting leds that ive seen most people use....whered u get them? are they reliable? had any lights stop working?
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Old 05-01-2010, 08:48 PM
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If I'm not mistaken bforbrian just put a piece of tape or something over every other LED so it's not so "clustered". I myself like his idear as I feel when they're spaced out like his it's a much cleaner look.
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Old 08-19-2010, 07:54 PM
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bforbrian...wondering if u could tell me where u go the LEDs from for ur headlights...they look Awesome!!
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Old 08-20-2010, 09:47 AM
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Guys, I did my headlights after Brian did his. I used the new side emitting flexible LED's from Oznium.com.
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Old 08-20-2010, 01:45 PM
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The ones that bforbrian used was the forward firing LEDs from oznium which they don't sell anymore.
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Old 08-20-2010, 01:50 PM
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Here is the Oznium.com link for the new ones.....

http://www.oznium.com/side-emitting-led-strip


Here's what my build looked like-

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Finished product (I did not black out every other one-like Brian did)-

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mr. bell...did you get (2) 2ft neutral white strips?

looks great btw!
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I sure did, Mr. Breath! We cut them to size (which you can do on every 3rd LED), but I did order the 2 foot length for each headlight.
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^thank you kindly sir! putting in my order now!

having JnC do my heads in the next week.

blacked out v2, cf inlays, angel eyes, zkwr lenses, and now the led strip.

overkill? perhaps...
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