DesertMistTL

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Got the idea from Rolls Royce Wraith $12,000 option which uses 1200 strands.
Video Link 1 - https://i.imgur.com/FVeFZYe.mp4
Video Link 2 -

You Tube

Materials needed

1. Any 12V DC fiberoptic kit on ebay like this one - link - make sure it has (3) different size strands for better effect
2. Flat head screwdriver
3. Philips head screwdriver
4. Soldering gun or butt connectors
5. 10ft of wire
6. Add a fuse
   Add a fuse
7. 3 or 2 prong switch
   3 or 2 prong switch
8. Drill or something sharp
9. Zip ties

1. Remove headliner

• Remove all the sun visors,
• Remove roof handles, by popping clips around the edges,
• Remove dome light
• Remove rear dome light
• Remove front a pillar covers
• Remove rear c pillar covers
• Pull down directly in front of sunroof to release clips
• temporarily remove rubber door trim to release headliner
• Release headliner from b -pillar, just pull over
• Remove front seat headrest and recline seat
• Pull headliner out from rear passenger door, fold headliner--its ok it wont break, fold to get through door and it'll straighten out.

2. Install light generator

• Open your hood and test which wire is the positive and ground, use your battery terminals to figure it out. In my case, blue was power, and brown was ground
• Make sure you know if the power generator is on already
• Place the bundle of strands into the light generator and tighten down the screw​​​​​
• About two inches from the rear dome light on driver side, mount the light generator facing driver side rear door
• Drill or poke two holes near each of the mounting tabs for the light generator, zip tie it in or use a bolt or w.e

3. Plot out lights

• Note how many cables came in your kit (i.e. 300, 200, 100) and begin dotting the headliner counting.
• If you got the (3) different size kit like I did, I just marked 300 dots and went back with red marker to mark where I would put different sized strands to vary the look
• You can go closer to sunroof, but warning your slide cover and use of sunroof will be limited greatly. I stopped where the black foam is, so about 4" from sun roof
• You can reach into the sides of the front but I dont recommend doing the front as the headliner is pressed up against the roof skin tight, no room for the cables
• You can have fun here, I put the zodiac Leo in one corner but try to vary the spacing, you want it to look random

4. Drill

• I drilled all the holes at once instead of doing one by one,
• You can just stab it through but doing this 300 times gets tiring so I use the smallest drill bit I had, which was maybe a 1/4", felt too big but whatever.

5. String in cables

• Try to separate the different size fiber optic cables
• I pulled the bulk of the cables towards me, and plucked one strand at a time into the holes
• DO NOT try to do more then one a time, you'll start to cross the cables and gets messy, do one at a time, so you can pull the strand clear of other strands
• When you get to one of the holes you marked for a different size fiber optic, just pull from that group and lay in
• Always pull from underneath to get it nice and snug

6. Glue down

• Do not use super glue, it'll melt the cable
• I used hot glue gun since it sets fast

7. Trim

• After all the cables are glued down
• Take nail clippers and trim them flush with the liner
• Nail clippers work great because they tend to round out the cable so its not jagged or sharp, also useful for zipties

8. Wiring Part 1

• Extend the wires on the light generator so that it runs across the headliner and about 4ft after so it run down the pillar

9. Reinstall headliner

• Start back to front
• Fold in headliner and reinstall through rear passenger door

10. Wiring Part 2

• Use a fuse adapter like this -
  link
  link
  on the positive wire, crimp or solder
• Swap the seat recline fuse with the fuse adapter
• Easy Route - Attach the ground to a 2 prong switch and then attach the other side of prong to a ground
• More difficult route use a 3 prong switch like this -
  link
  link
  - the fiber optics will come on with door and through a switch
  • wire middle prong to light generator
  • wire other prong to dome light supervisor wire, located in top right of fuse box
  • wire other prong to ground

11. Done!

projectwidow

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Very nice man!!

guitarplayer16

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so awesome

can't imagine how long you spent to do this mod!

DesertMistTL

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1.5 hour to remove headliner
3.5 hours to drill, thread cables, glue down
1.5 hours to reinstall headliner
1 hour to wire

so about 7.5 hr and 9 hours with breaks haha

Joecop67

DesertMistTL

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Summary
1.Remove headliner
2.Drill holes
3.Glue fibers
4.Reinstall liner
5. Wire to dome and seat recline

TacoBello

DesertMistTL

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I can change them to any color, strobe, fade, and twinkle.

Havent had much experience with hot glue on hot days but i I did put a good amount on them. It's been parked in the sun for 2 days at 90 degrees and so far so good.

thoiboi

wow

Matu -

Hey, why I have to add fuse to seat? Can I just swap the cigarette fuse with the fuse adapter? And where can I find supervision wire on the 1997 year car?

Btw nice build (Y)

DesertMistTL

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doesnt matter, whatever fuse is always on and i have no clue where a dome supervision light is on a 97

DesertMistTL

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minor update. you can do the full headliner without issue. Since I snapped a few so easy I didnt want to risk it. Other guys have done so with no issue.

I'm planning to redo this as headliner is sagging and try to do a 600 kit.