homemade LED light bar for my ae86

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:52 pm

I love lights, just to let everyone know.

So I had to incorporate as much flashy lighting as I can into my drifter. I came up with a cheap solution...

Build a flasher out of a LM556 and a handfull of other parts and use it to control the old ground effects kit from my 4runner..... Yes it had ground effects.

To start off, I had red green and blue LED's in a long strip. X4.

I was thinking of putting 1 strip, stacked, and recessed in my hood schoop. bondo a small slit into the back for 2 more strips and let the magic unveil.

After some R&D I came up with schematic and loaded it all into a perf board, gobbled it into a workbox and here's what it looks like.

All stainless and brass hardware with watertight box filled with insta-gasket = bulletproof design

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Ill post more later when I have it installed tomorrow

Post by **nt66** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:39 am

you should make led taillights

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:01 pm

nt66 wrote:you should make led taillights

when I got into bed last night, I thought about what else I could hook it up to, and that was one of them. Making the tails wig-wag, along with strobe lights in the reverse-light hole

Post by **nt66** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:13 pm

I meant like make a factory brake light but with led's

Post by **dr.occa** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:21 pm

like the "flashers".

my led strobes came in a couple of weeks ago but i haven't gotten around to installing them. may do it this week.

big kids' lite-brite.

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:40 pm

nt66 wrote:I meant like make a factory brake light but with led's

i'm gonna keep the factory brake lights, but put LED's in the housing so they are more responsive when strobing.... instead of an oldschool filament

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:57 pm

dr.occa wrote:like the "flashers".

my led strobes came in a couple of weeks ago but i haven't gotten around to installing them. may do it this week.

big kids' lite-brite.

PICS!!!!

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:13 am

vids will come when I wake up, or just check my youtube channel for them to finish uploading.

www.youtube.com/hvguy

I broke a magnet with a hammer, and glued it in place of the bracket so the upper light bar is removable just in case.

pics now-

the mounts

the lights glued, ready for mounting bracket

Post by **nt66** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:14 am

oh jebus

Post by **dr.occa** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:07 am

oh no....

Post by **nt66** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:10 am

might be a good idea to not use red and blue dont want to go to jail for impersonating a cop

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:22 pm

they are only for track use

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UNzPVBIN6pQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DOzKr9ZTZCI&feature=related

Post by **dr.occa** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:29 pm

the one on the roof of the car is just sitting there right. it's not actually affixed to the roof correct? please say yes...

hvguy · Post by **hvguy** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:00 pm

dr.occa wrote:the one on the roof of the car is just sitting there right. it's not actually affixed to the roof correct? please say yes...

correct, I have it on magnets

Post by **CBR_TOY** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:31 pm

it seemed like you gave up with the rice idea and actually started to do creative stuff and then you do this