looks good.

 

R8 s2k

 

Along with bdi's comment about the Audi, when I first started the planning on this project, an S2000 owner and enthusiast I have been feeding updates on actually grasped what I was trying to do. Those two cars are exactly what he thought of, and sent me pics/links to see them. I love the way the lights are possitioned on the Porche. It looks cool, and can easily be done on the AP1. AP2 you could do something similar having the lights virtical in the ducts next to the grill. Think Nissan 350Z front bumper.

Being stuborn, I wanted my LED project original, and the way I originally envisioned it before planing began. If what I wanted didn't work, I had other ideas on what I could do. But I wanted them low to the ground, and since I didn't want to cut my bumper (much more expensive than a chin spoiler if you screw up)

For the Porche look, I supose you could use some modified bycicle reflectors for the top so it looks good, and you could compress the spacing between the LEDs so it doesn't look drawn out and streached. There are all sorts of ways to make it work. If you want to do it, I'll be happy to try and figure something out. Now, the diffusers to cover the LEDs will be a little harder to fabricate. Free-State Heat-forming is the best way to customize plexiglass. But you would have to make a pattern for the peice to rest on on the oven, and then cut it to size afterword.

I used Alumalite RTV Silicone. It really stinks when you mix it, and it stinks when you heat it in the oven. It sets cold, and will withstand 500 degree heat. 1/4 inch plexiglass becomes plyable at 400 degrees after about 10 minutes for free-state.

With LEDs the possibilites are endless! You could use tri-color LEDs and have a full visible spectrum range. They take up no more space than a standard LED. It would require more electronic controls, but you could do some seriously insane stuff on your car.

What I wanted was something clean and subtle. Something that there isn't a whole lot of. (I am corrected that it is NOT the only thing like it on S2000s) I'm not much for rice-mobiles, or punk-mobiles.

Does anyone have the link to the J's racing light kit for the S2000? I'd love to see it.

I need to quit writing. I know I kinda wrote a book here.

 

needs to be higher on the bumper, would look awesome on GPW, b/c leds would basically blend in during day

 

Each light has it's own wire leads. They are held in place by an aluminum mounting rail which is hard-mounted to the chin-spoiler. The wire leads are held togeather by no more than split tubing that you can buy at any hardware store. (It's all over the place in S2000s. Just open the hood and look at the electical lines) The leads from the lights go to a junction box which is mounted inside the bumper, just infront of the wheel well. The box itself is actually mounted TO the plastic in the wheel well. Ran into a little suprise on the driver side when I found the AC compressor. Still fit nicely.

In the Junction box, the lights are joined into a parallel circuit so if one light goes out, the rest stay on. It took a whole lot of wire stripping and dissconnect terminal crimping, but worked out well. From the box, the leads go to an LED driver/ voltage regulator to protect the lights from surges, and voltage fluctuations that any automobile DC current puts out. I tested the system directly from the battery with a multi-meter. Car off- 12 volts, car running with all accesories running, RPMs running around 7k- 14.7 volts. Any LED prject should have a LED driver included in this. LED drivers vary in size depending on how large the current draw is. The kind that I used are about the size of a mini-marshmallow, and it has room to handle all 30 lights that I have. I used two because it was easyer to wire in two groupes.

The leads are then spliced directly into the running light circuits so they turn on with one click of the headlight knob.

I have one big question though: These lights have one red lead and two black. What purpose does the other black lead serve?

BTW, I am going to be disapering for a week. Leave me a PM if you want some pics of the work in proccess and some other info on doing something like this.

 

ah man that looks really cool!

what are you using for a switch in the interior?

 

Everyone to his or her own tastes. I wanted it low for my own reasons and tastes. With LEDs, their small size makes the versitility, and customizability for any shape or size array with any number of lights between one and hundreds of lights makes the possibilities endless . . . as Ive said before.

 

"what are you using for a switch in the interior?"

Headlight switch- one click. Read the first post, or one of the other ultra-drawnout replies I wrote for more details.

 

I like the look, but agrre they are too far down on the car. Clean look and good craftsmanship

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Wow thats pretty damn cool.... It reminds me of the new Porsche Turbo blinkers aswell...

Anyway, nice job!