firstgear
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- Corvette
- 15 Z06, 01 Vert, 63 SWC & 60 ALL RED
those of you that know what I am doing with my car know that the exhaust runs down the side of the car under the body and next to the frame. Where the stock exhaust used to come out the rear I changed it and added an additional stop/turn signal LED light for each side in the opening.
Here it is, turned off and then turned on and finally the bumper on the car....
I did a lot of research and came up with an idea that I thought would work. Looking in many of the hot rod magazines that I have I came across a company called Lambert Enterprises http://www.lambertenterprises.com/ .
I did some measuring on the back side of the bumper and made a pattern that would fit both openings, you have to go back and forth a few times.
I sent my payment and the pattern (out of sheet metal, not cardboard) and they make the lenses to fit and then they have the LED kits in various configurations.
The RED lens are held in place with silicone so that if I ever want to undo it, it is just a matter of cutting through the silicone. Totally reversible
. No damage done to a C1 bumper
LE-OVL6-TL Flush Mounting Tail Light Kit with 56 LEDs each, uses a 2" x 6" Oval Shaped lenses. 134.95 pair
All the LED kit above gets you is the circuit board with LED's mounted and some leads. I looked around for some kind of housing to put them in that would also fit the 2X6 size or a little bigger and was at the NAPA store and found something that would work if I cut off the lens that was on it, I took out the bulb and siliconed the LED board to the housing.
I then positioned the housing in the back of the bumper and siliconed it in place as well. Again, this can all be removed easily if need be.
The WHITE housing that the light board is siliconed onto will need to be painted BLACK so that when you look at the bumper gap area it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb
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The LEDs are polarity sensitive, meaning you must hook + and - to the proper terminations or they don't work.
I did away with the rear reflectors, I just don't like them (perference thing) and felt that since the exhaust was moved that I needed to fill the hole and the more and more I thought about it the more I thought about the additional brake and turn signal light.
Got the rear bumpers on tonight and here are some photos with me jumpering the wires across the battery. Lights off and then lights on. For having a pretty steep angle to the far side there is good visibility out of the lights.....
end of photos and topic...on to next topic and tasks....
Here it is, turned off and then turned on and finally the bumper on the car....
I did a lot of research and came up with an idea that I thought would work. Looking in many of the hot rod magazines that I have I came across a company called Lambert Enterprises http://www.lambertenterprises.com/ .
I did some measuring on the back side of the bumper and made a pattern that would fit both openings, you have to go back and forth a few times.
I sent my payment and the pattern (out of sheet metal, not cardboard) and they make the lenses to fit and then they have the LED kits in various configurations.
The RED lens are held in place with silicone so that if I ever want to undo it, it is just a matter of cutting through the silicone. Totally reversible
LE-OVL6-TL Flush Mounting Tail Light Kit with 56 LEDs each, uses a 2" x 6" Oval Shaped lenses. 134.95 pair
All the LED kit above gets you is the circuit board with LED's mounted and some leads. I looked around for some kind of housing to put them in that would also fit the 2X6 size or a little bigger and was at the NAPA store and found something that would work if I cut off the lens that was on it, I took out the bulb and siliconed the LED board to the housing.
I then positioned the housing in the back of the bumper and siliconed it in place as well. Again, this can all be removed easily if need be.
The WHITE housing that the light board is siliconed onto will need to be painted BLACK so that when you look at the bumper gap area it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb
The LEDs are polarity sensitive, meaning you must hook + and - to the proper terminations or they don't work.
I did away with the rear reflectors, I just don't like them (perference thing) and felt that since the exhaust was moved that I needed to fill the hole and the more and more I thought about it the more I thought about the additional brake and turn signal light.
Got the rear bumpers on tonight and here are some photos with me jumpering the wires across the battery. Lights off and then lights on. For having a pretty steep angle to the far side there is good visibility out of the lights.....
end of photos and topic...on to next topic and tasks....
