Any headway on my lights, Pwave?

I am sure where ever it goes! it will be top shelf:cool: looking forward to the results!

Yes, there will be a lens when it's done, haha! :eek:

Thanks Bruce! :cool:

Not everyone's cup o' tea, I'm sure, but I think I'm going to like it ;)
Pictures have been photoshopped to hide some things :eek:

Just a dab of the green caliper paint on the HID cutoffs and around the Cree LEDs to carry the color in the lenses as seen in my last post.

Funky! Quick question... those shotgun LED projectors, how do they hook up to the system? Are you planning to connect them to the parking light or the low beams? Fogs? Standalone circuit?

You need to put on the inner trim and the lens then fire it up so we can see what it will look like

(curious!) :cool:

Who cares if someone else likes it or not! What you have so far is pretty cool looking. I am also curious about the outboard LED's.

Me too
 

Remember the awful movie "Starship Troopers" ?

"Do you want to know more ?"

Yes we do :-)

Dwight

I'm not sure yet. :o

They will either be DRL's or "flash to pass" daytime high beams. They are very bright. Blinding.
Combine that with the projector lens and they are actually very useful.
I mostly just like the way they look, though. :p

I'm resurrecting the old CCFL DRL idea, also. These will be nice because I made them so that the bulb can be changed through a plug in the side of the headlight (no need to remove the lens). They are also very bright.

Still a bit of work to go, but I'll have them finished in a week or so.

Cree
 

Could you do that with a frosted tube and a Cree at each end...should burn essentially forever.

For that strip in the indicator, two words: "fiber optic". Look it up

Glad to see you are having fun there man. Lucky you (wish I had time to trick my toys here hrrr)

In a week you'll have all of your customer's kit in hands (bity of a heads up). So yea everyone, expect this mod in Autumn lol

Was browsing at this CA guy's website ('80 style, beware btw)
http://www.fiberopticproducts.com/El_wire.htm

found this as well:
https://web-assets-prod.s3.amazonaws...163e457d39.gif

I've seen the Bill Me Later thing often but never really cared to look into it, what it meant. Until today. juss sharing man

(unbelievable)

Why on earth are they still using inverters (Ballasts) with all the wonderful high output SMD these days ?

Robust!!! lol

I've actually tried those. The EL wire isn't nearly bright enough and led tube is spotty and a pain to repair if a single led goes out.

See above. The quest for tube lighting...led tubes aren't very bright and they still have that uneven spotty look.

This is not bright enough
 

50Watt Warm White LED IC High Power Floodlight Lamp Bulb Beads Chip DIY | eBay

Have you seen one of these ?

this thread is AWESOME

I think it can now be called EPIC.

More headlight pron...
These could be ready by tomorrow, but I'm going to wait a day to see if anything else comes to mind before I re-seal them. ;)

Haha! That is probably crazy bright @ 50watts. Way too bright for my needs and I was referring to/looking for tube/strip lighting.

The Cree LEDs in the small projectors that I'm using are 1 watt each (330 mA @ 3 V) and are more than bright enough for DRLs, though I probably won't use them as such.

Looks awesome, particlewave!

just wondering, when someone will mod them little trim corners to DRLs
http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01/DRL1405158394.jpg

...so they would be useful finally :D

^ Sweeeeet. Charles I think these came out pretty good. Looks tactical :cool:

Can't wait for the in-car pics!!!

Me Likee
 

I really like the way these lights are looking PW

Really Like

Cant wait to see these completed

Thanks you for the compliment! :)

When toying with design ideas, I was inspired by the Carrera dual projectors (1 larger, 1 smaller as seen below).
Unfortunately, finding a projector lens smaller than those that we use proved very difficult and there is not much spare room in the headlight with these projectors due to their mount location.

So, I combined the Carrera dual projector with the 918 4 barrel and came up with these. I went through countless combinations before settling on this.
I tried many different ideas; even adding a second inner shroud to the headlight as seen below. The silver on white looked great in mock up, but not so much in the car.

Those look good
 

I like the projects you do, everything looks classy or elegant to me. I always try to make my projects look as close to factory as possible, if you don't have time to do it right the first time how in the world will you find time to do it right the second or third time. What are the two smaller light assembly's on the side for ?

I cant wait to do this to a spare set of lights I have at home, hopefully the job interview will go good next week and I can get back to work so I can order some projectors.

Again really nice work PW....really Nice...and 968 such classy hardware...very well made from the looks of it.

Dwight

Thanks again Dwight, and good luck with the interview! :)
I hope that you get the chance to upgrade your lights soon. The smaller lights on the side will probably be used as daytime high beam flashers.

HIDs are powered by the low beam circuit and in low beam mode, there is a small cutoff shield that blocks half of the beam. When you turn your high beams on, a solenoid pulls down the cutoff shield, exposing the entire beam.

However, since the HIDs are powered by the low beam circuit, when you try to flash your high beams with the headlight switch in the off position, only the solenoid is activated and no light is output.
For this reason, many opt to leave the reflector chrome and keep the stock high beams on a relay so that when the headlight switch is off, the stock high beams are used for flashing.
When the switch is on, the relay is activated, switching the high beam circuit back to the solenoid and rendering the halogen high beam inoperable.

I wanted a blacked out reflector, so I may use these as the daytime high beam flashers. They are certainly bright enough.

Here's another small teaser ;)
Im still working out the CCFL DRLs and LED projectors. Waiting on parts...

Again, sweet work coming from you Charles!

I'm not into weapons at all but what about filling one side-tube with a green laser for targeting, the other with a high caliber of some sort? Legal there?

(had too much coffee today maybe dunno)

I have these little bad boys on display as well... if one day you think of retrofitting for the third time. 9 parts of yellow for 1 part of blue! Polished lime green

No?

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1405336548.jpg

That's what you need Charles!

Red
 

I want a pair of those in Red

red
 

You and I both. I'm going extreme tho... getting the Luminoso installed this summer

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads01...1405355051.jpg

^ funny bit is those things are so much more nicer to look at in real life

Can thos be made to say "Porsche" on the front ?

edit: Wrong info, irrelevant for now. Will update when concrete info is avail

edit: Wrong info, irrelevant for now. Will update when concrete info is avail

Aug 1st, going LIVE
 

edit: Wrong info, irrelevant for now. Will update when concrete info is avail

You are going to do very well with that site Fred! Excellent product:cheers:

You, and other who purchased a kit, will need to register to this site eventually so to get their warranty effective. Parts, ballasts, bulbs, anything burns during a two years period you get a replacement for free no question asked.

Something like that lol You'll see. Trying to play clean with the crowd

dimension drawings
 

edit: Wrong info, irrelevant for now. Will update when concrete info is avail

This was my third :p
I have a problem with headlight addiction, I think.

That green is so cool looking! Not sure I could pull it off, but I might just try :D

Great, much appreciated!