i was wondering..
02-02-2007, 10:50 AM
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i was wondering..
i was wondering if it was at all possible.. to make angel eyes for 04' wrx. or if anybody has ever done it before.. kinda tryin goin for a beamer type look.. if you know what i mean.
02-02-2007, 11:54 AM
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OK here’s what your going to do.
Go to a home improvement store, or your mothers living room; find your self clear hex-shaped acrylic curtain rods. The home improvement stores usually have them sitting around broken and don’t mind giving you them, say its for a school project or something.
Go to radio shack and find your self some shrink tubing (big enough to go around the end of the curtain rod), High intensity LED’s thin gauge wire, and using this calculator http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...Bowden/led.htm
figure out what type of resistors you need.
When you get home take out your headlights, put them in the oven for a bit to loosen up the glue, and carefully pry them apart. You may have some metal clips holding them together that you’ll need to take off.
Find a coffee can, tin can or any thing else the right diameter you want the rings to be.
Take a cookie sheet, put some tinfoil on it, put the curtain rods on the tinfoil and pop it in the oven. Once the rods are hot enough to be flexible wrap them around the can and pull the ends up and together ( side by side so they don’t interfere with the loop).
When they cool take a dremmel tool or a saw and notch the back sides of them.
Solder the resistors to one leg of each LED and solder the wire to it.
Place the led into the shrink tube and the other end of the shrink tube on the end of the curtain rod; so that the led shines into the rod. Shrink the tubing so that it holds the led into place.
Then re-assemble the headlights with the rings in place.
Install your headlights and wire the rings up to your running lights.
Ta DA
You can forum the rings in any shape that you want.
BMW does the same thing but with glass rod and halogen light.
Go to a home improvement store, or your mothers living room; find your self clear hex-shaped acrylic curtain rods. The home improvement stores usually have them sitting around broken and don’t mind giving you them, say its for a school project or something.
Go to radio shack and find your self some shrink tubing (big enough to go around the end of the curtain rod), High intensity LED’s thin gauge wire, and using this calculator http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...Bowden/led.htm
figure out what type of resistors you need.
When you get home take out your headlights, put them in the oven for a bit to loosen up the glue, and carefully pry them apart. You may have some metal clips holding them together that you’ll need to take off.
Find a coffee can, tin can or any thing else the right diameter you want the rings to be.
Take a cookie sheet, put some tinfoil on it, put the curtain rods on the tinfoil and pop it in the oven. Once the rods are hot enough to be flexible wrap them around the can and pull the ends up and together ( side by side so they don’t interfere with the loop).
When they cool take a dremmel tool or a saw and notch the back sides of them.
Solder the resistors to one leg of each LED and solder the wire to it.
Place the led into the shrink tube and the other end of the shrink tube on the end of the curtain rod; so that the led shines into the rod. Shrink the tubing so that it holds the led into place.
Then re-assemble the headlights with the rings in place.
Install your headlights and wire the rings up to your running lights.
Ta DA
You can forum the rings in any shape that you want.
BMW does the same thing but with glass rod and halogen light.
02-04-2007, 01:59 PM
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ehhh.... it isnt clustered the way i imagined.. i wanted it to be.. and damn.. thats hella money.. and damn thats hella hard to do.. lots of trail an error.. and i dont wanna chop up my headlights.. and screw up... =/
02-04-2007, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by slim617
ehhh.... it isnt clustered the way i imagined.. i wanted it to be.. and damn.. thats hella money.. and damn thats hella hard to do.. lots of trail an error.. and i dont wanna chop up my headlights.. and screw up... =/
sorry dude
02-05-2007, 10:30 AM
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i dont think people understand the look i was tryin to make.. i said BEAMER... in that kind of look.. tryin to make it at most resemble its appearance. if i could even rip it out of a beamer and put it in the wrx thats what i would do.. soo alternatively... not just projectors replacing the same exact location.. bot a cluster of 3.. or something like that..
02-09-2007, 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by slim617
i dont think people understand the look i was tryin to make.. i said BEAMER... in that kind of look.. tryin to make it at most resemble its appearance. if i could even rip it out of a beamer and put it in the wrx thats what i would do.. soo alternatively... not just projectors replacing the same exact location.. bot a cluster of 3.. or something like that..
02-09-2007, 11:51 AM
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i think i want to make it custom as possible.. change the shape.. of the inside.. without just cutting holes.. and adding halos around the lights that are previous. i guess i can try and draw it.. lol even though i suck at drawing.. but anyway.. i guess almost like a celica with halo projections. where everything is like grouped.. il lget back to this when i figure.