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Nov 6, 2008 | 12:32 PM

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HOW-TO make LED tail lights

A friend of mine took LT1 style tails and turned them into full LED tail lights. He had them at Bob's the other night and they looked really cool (when the turn indicator is on they light up in an arrow shape, when brakes are on it is full red).

Anyways, he did a write-up for them on my site and I thought I'd share...

http://6litereaterdesigns.com/forum/...32.0;topicseen

Nov 6, 2008 | 12:54 PM

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good info

Nov 6, 2008 | 01:01 PM

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Doesn't some company make something like this and sell it on Ebay? I would want to see some pics of this lit up on the car before I'd be crazy about the idea.

Nov 6, 2008 | 04:19 PM

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Pics on a car? Looks cool so far, but sounds like a PIA to do though!

Nov 6, 2008 | 05:14 PM

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anymore pictures of these together and working. ive been playing around with this idea for awhile now but havent gotten to it yet. glad to see someone took the time to try it.

Nov 6, 2008 | 05:57 PM

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Doesn't some company make something like this and sell it on Ebay? I would want to see some pics of this lit up on the car before I'd be crazy about the idea.

They do but not with a stock outer housing...

Nov 6, 2008 | 06:06 PM

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9) For multi-function LEDs, the positive sides will all tie in together, and then the main lead will split. The dimmed portion needs to go through a high powered resistor. (I used a 47 ohm 15 watt resistor) The other lead needs to go through a Zener Diode to prevent feedback in the circuit. I used a 5 watt diode at 16 volts. Feel free to buy a few and experiment.

no pictures of this? i have no idea what those things are or how to wire them. i can kind of think how to wire the led's for a single stage but i would like to see pictures of how you would do #9

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Nov 6, 2008 | 07:06 PM

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I have been watching this build on the Grand Am forum for some time now, its come a long way

Nov 6, 2008 | 07:51 PM

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working pics?

Nov 6, 2008 | 09:08 PM

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^^ +1

Nov 6, 2008 | 11:15 PM

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Vids for they don't work!

Nov 6, 2008 | 11:23 PM

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i stumbled on to a site that sells LT1 led taillights

Nov 6, 2008 | 11:52 PM

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i think i might finally do this now that its about to time to put the car away for the winter anyways.

Nov 7, 2008 | 08:22 PM

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Here's a video:

http://s41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...t=stuff027.flv

Nov 7, 2008 | 08:34 PM

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Nice looking but very hard to notice the car is blinking. I thought he wired the whole thing to brake and/or blink like the stock one.

Nov 7, 2008 | 08:49 PM

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Nice looking but very hard to notice the car is blinking. I thought he wired the whole thing to brake and/or blink like the stock one.

You could but he wanted to do the arrow thing. More of a show car...

Nov 7, 2008 | 09:06 PM

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I think that it looks SICK! And I would do the arrow thing, too (but probably add an extra arrow or two for visibility

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Dec 1, 2008 | 09:19 PM

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i say fail, im sorry but his *** is gonna get plowed into by some hard of seeing person. my led tails r the way to go, spiderlites in the blinkers, and led strips in the gap between the trunk and tail panel. ill post a vid soon

Dec 1, 2008 | 10:16 PM

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i would love someone to do a led rear tail light for the Trans am. so a led is in each honey come looking piece

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