Grill LEDs

**Iced Iridium** · 04-15-2012

I got bored and had a few feet of red LEDs left over...

Single strip in the tops of the center grills and the same in the lower valence.
With parking lights:

Parking + fog:

Low Beams + fogs:

**TexasTanker19kilo20** · 04-15-2012

I like it. Any popo problems yet?

**dpzelenak** · 04-15-2012

YOU COPYCAT!!!!!

I want to note that i am the first to do this like a year ago....
same place and color same everything(minus the car)

**Iced Iridium** · 04-15-2012

I wasn't saying that I was the first. Just saying that I was bored and did it because I thought it'd look good.

Just put them in tonight, but as long as I don't have them flashing I should be fine. (they're on a flasher module controlled by a key fob)

**Bluemagic** · 04-15-2012

What LEDs did you use to do that? Links? Prices? Looks good.

**Iced Iridium** · 04-15-2012

they're 'Hitlights' from amazon.

Amazon.com: Hitlights 300 LEDs Waterproof Red Flexible Ribbon LED Strip, 16.4 Ft or 5 Meters, 3528SMD Type, 12 Volt, 24 Watt: Home Improvement

**Bluemagic** · 04-15-2012

One set is enough?

**Iced Iridium** · 04-15-2012

the roll is just over 16 feet long, it was enough to do some lighting in the trunk, the grill, a '4th' brake light under the deck lid, and still have a few feet left over.

**Bluemagic** · 04-15-2012

Awesome. Thanks. Ordering soon

**dpzelenak** · 04-15-2012

i know you werent, i just got so much crap after i did this
Heres mine

Ill try to find the other pics

**SF9777** · 04-15-2012

How did you wire them and to what? I would like to do that to my 07 but just like to the lower valence, maybe.

**dpzelenak** · 04-15-2012

mine are wired to a switch panel with the others for my lights, inside the car.
ran a power wire up though the dash/door jam and down the left front fender jam and put in though a hole in the frame and across the top of the core support and found just a random bolt to us as a ground
i got a pic that shows the front, ill see if i can find it

**dpzelenak** · 04-15-2012

if you zoom in you can see the power wires going in and down and the gounds coming up(red wires)

**SF9777** · 04-15-2012

I see it, im thinking about doing this maybe. Most likely not but if we do ill post it, Thanks for the info and pics and that looks awesome. If i were you i would make the ones in the grill light back and fourth (Side to side) to make it like Knight rider.

**Futures Passed** · 04-16-2012

I thought about doing that to the top grille only, but I didn't think it would be worth the effort. I can see here it would be worth the effort; I'll try to rig up something custom with the white LEDs I have.

**dpzelenak** · 04-16-2012

the problems i found with the knight rider look is that, you would have to have 2(just for the uppers), have more wires to run and because those holes arnt round, the strips dont make a perfect half circle around the top and it wont look right with the lights moving side to side because the light reflects off the honey combs that just throws it around,
if anything the lowers light would be better with those strips because they can lay flat and theres nothing in front of them to distort the light and give the right affect

**dpzelenak** · 04-16-2012

Originally Posted by Futures Passed

I thought about doing that to the top grille only, but I didn't think it would be worth the effort. I can see here it would be worth the effort; I'll try to rig up something custom with the white LEDs I have.

thats what i thought at first but after the first night me and everyone else was like, the bottom must be done.

im thinking about putting blue strobes in my corner lights just to add to the red and blue them ill going with

**Swiggles** · 04-16-2012

Originally Posted by dpzelenak

YOU COPYCAT!!!!!

I want to note that i am the first to do this like a year ago....
same place and color same everything(minus the car)

LOL how old are you, people have been doing this since before the first Fast and Furious movie came out.

looks good though!

**SF9777** · 04-16-2012

Originally Posted by dpzelenak

the problems i found with the knight rider look is that, you would have to have 2(just for the uppers), have more wires to run and because those holes arnt round, the strips dont make a perfect half circle around the top and it wont look right with the lights moving side to side because the light reflects off the honey combs that just throws it around,
if anything the lowers light would be better with those strips because they can lay flat and theres nothing in front of them to distort the light and give the right affect

Ah i see, i might do this only and if only i get a trans am. It would be worth the effort to do that on a trans am.