LED tail lights

There is a groupbuy going on

http://z31performance.com/forum/mark…ht-kouki-87-89

But i do like the LED ring idea.

I've seen the groupbuy but I don't exactly like the $250 price point, and honestly I think they look a little tacky.
For $8 per ring, and an hour or two of fiddling around in the hatch these rings would look pretty good. Probably would look best on Zenki tails too.
Maybe a cheap alternative to the groupbuy LED's. I think I might buy a few of the rings and see about wiring them in.
Should be just like in the MR2 thread I'd assume. Find which wire does what on the plug and wire the power for that and then a common ground.
Think I'd have to wire in resisters or anything? Normal bulbs are something like 1.5 amp and the LED's are something like 0.002 amps

If you're talking about duping the "bulb out" warning system, I would think so, I see a few 50W 60ohm load resistors on amazon for this purpose.

I've temporarily mounted 5mm lensed LED strips in a zenki housing and didn't like the way the outer lens pattern made them look. I tried with and without the internal fresnel type diffuser.
I was going for the Dodge Challenger outline look.

Having unlensed SMD LED's right up against the outer lens might look better, at least they didn't look bad on the MR2.

I forgot about that warning light >_> Oh well I can always try and then see what happens.

I have been toying with a nice way to put LEDs into our tails. I personally don't like the circles. I thought of a design to look more like this \\ //////// But there are many ways to do it. I also adored the look of the BMW solid lined accent for the brake lights. I think that would be clean for an accent on the rear of our cars. After this led retrofit im doing on my buddies lexus, I may start moving on to the z if I can find some cheap as hell parts. Im really waiting to see those group buy ones to see how bright they really are.

Don't like the the circles. Looks kinda meh. Much better if the whole assembly is filled with LEDs. Like so

Here are a couple I've personally done. I wasn't trying to make it perfect, just messing around, so it kinda looks like crap… The first one shows 2 separate units in the housing. I din;t really like it, so I ended up making another setup with it covering the full housing. It wasn't curved with the housing, and just looks like a long rectangle…

I'm working on a new one (I mentioned it in the group buy thread as well, as someone brought up the zenki style). The new one has a fully regulated power supply, better leds, and will all be on a drop-in pcb. It will just be simple off, low, high (no sequential), but it will be affordable. I'll post up details later on in this topic to keep all the info together. Not trying to sound like I'm making money or anything off this, just for fun, and to help out the community. Attached files

I did a homemade job with crib board and LED's.
http://youtu.be/TQ_fsIwC1Ho?t=2m2s

I'd be interested in a zenki set if you go through with it

Did this thread get deleted or something?

No, vb4 uses different URL layouts than VB5…so once again, dozens of links are broken.

Can't even find it via search.

Yeah, I havent been able to find it either…

your link is no longer valid. do you have a working link or some more info on how you wired your setup?