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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 10:01 PM
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Has anyone seen or done this on a T/A? I have a 2002 and my friends said I should but idk how it would look. I tried a search but I couldnt find anything for T/A just camaros... So does anyone have some input?
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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 10:04 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR5wz...ure=plpp_video

This?
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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 10:05 PM
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O wow thats nuts!! But I meant along the actual flip up housing.
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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 10:09 PM
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you mean on the headlight lids edges?
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 09:57 PM
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yeah, kinda like and bottom style eye lid
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Old Nov 2, 2011 | 10:02 PM
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The T/A in the video looks super rice. Fail.
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 08:23 AM
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i couldnt agree more, that looks so dumb, looks like the autozone king rocks that ride, i like the (yeah) at the end of the vid lol
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 10:08 AM
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The longer Im on this forum, the more I respect "outside the box" thinking... While that lighting mod isnt something I would do, I like the originality of it... These cars need some kind of update in the lighting department anyways....
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 10:14 AM
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I have plans to do a "different" drl mod on my camaro, but nothing nearly as out of the box as that TA, I will say the TA looks a little ricey...

my plans are to get a billet front grill, sand it and spray it satin black, then mount some individual waterproff smd leds behind the grill to give it that high end look during the day/night, but they are completely hidden when turned off
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Please don't do this. Around me I see this on any and every car. IMHO it always looks like a cheap attempt at copying audis.
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Originally Posted by blt91RS
Please don't do this. Around me I see this on any and every car. IMHO it always looks like a cheap attempt at copying audis.
I think it would look find as long as they arent trying to put them around the headlights

something like this doesnt remind me of copying audis

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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 03:18 PM
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I love people doing stuff diff but man sometimes people get it wrong and mess up something that was nice already with something dumb :/
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 03:52 PM
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I think it would look better if it was only 1 strip of LEDs on the fin/divider on the Trans Am bumper instead of the 2 strips in that video.

Maybe remove the existing amber markers and make the LED strip the Turn Signal & DRL with WHITE DRL and flashing AMBER signal.
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 04:02 PM
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I'm another one to applaud thinking outside the box. Sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't. If it was just one strip on each side, yeah that would work. Two, i think is a little too much.
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Listen its ok to go outside the box but it has to be done well.the car in the video looks like cheap jap crap. Member qcon i think is his name did something like this but it was very well done.and it flowed with the rest of his car.just to put them on a stock ta would be a fail, would be out ofplace
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Yea that looks horrible maybe if the running lights were blueish as well it would flow better
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 07:23 PM
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Yea I also like outside the box thinking, but I wasnt planning on doing a friend did it on his mustang and said I should do it. So I thought id see what it looked like just out of pure wonderment. But Qcons turn signals are crazy cool.
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We always joke when we see a car with those lame *** light strips inside their headlight housings.

"oh look, its that new Audi Civic, Corolla, Accord, etc."
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Old Nov 3, 2011 | 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by happysem
We always joke when we see a car with those lame *** light strips inside their headlight housings.

"oh look, its that new Audi Civic, Corolla, Accord, etc."
Lmao thats awesome
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Old Nov 5, 2011 | 07:40 PM
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I thought about a version of this, but under the lid of the head lights...you wouldn't be able to see the LEDs but light would show under the lid...just a thought when I get bored or something.
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