Great light bars for roof....

[castigan]

ok so heres my little half day project, saw these at a shop here in new zealand. and im glad i got them..they are great and look good too. almost a perfect fit. no drilling needed and come pre-wired. just need to connect + and - from battery or high beam... the wires run perfectly down the window under the door seals.
they are 4 55w spotlights, can switch the outside two or inside two or all 4 at once. metal cases for the lamps on a plastic/abs base. lights can be adjusted up n down etc.. and have rubber surrounds to keep water out. all held on by 3M mounting tape which they come with also.
i did do some mods, i epoxied the screws that hold the lamps at the bottom so they can then be adjusted while mounted, and i re-wrapped the wires to make them lay flat when under the door seals. other than that these units fit right out of the box.

i can buy and ship to USA for around $150us if any of you guys over there want some. have a paypal account to make it easy. plus ill donate $5 from each sale to the site for all the good work.

let me know if anyone is interested, more pics in gallery


http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/lightskits.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12696)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/DSC01568.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12694)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/DSC01566.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12693)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/DSC01565.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12692)http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/515/thumbs/DSC01563.JPG (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12690)

[workmeistr]

Man, I love the color of your VX.

I'm toying with buying another VX with poor(er) paint and doing a full respray in lime-ish green, in the same vein that Proton is to yellow, this Lime would be to green. Maybe the Lotus lime green?

Anyway, I do like the light bar and it looks like it would be compatible with my fairing. After I get my stereo amp'd and honor my verbal commitment to rowhard for a front 'faux plate,' I would seriously consider this mod. As I'll surely never do a sunroof, even though I would love to, this would fill the 'bald space' between the XM antenna and the fairing. 'No square inch goes un-modded! (Said the guy with a nearly-stock exterior VX, grinning...)

Thanks for the post and cool pictures, castigan.

[rowhard]

Yes, the green along with the other JDM colors are cool, only because they are different. But those wind deflectors you have around your windows are way to cool. Any chance you might know of a source of those we Yanks might get out hands on????

[castigan]

yeah sunroof.. yew.... my panel beater matched the color with no issues... for all that i want the whole thing black !!but i dont mind the green !! :) just arent that many black ones in NZ, actually.. i think there are only 26 VX in new zealand full stop !!

[castigan]

ive heard of one wreckers here that has one of these.. i can make some phone calls sometime and see if he has them... they are cool.. i cracked one at the car wash the other day :( sigh.. lucky for superglue..

[castigan]

[QUOTE=workmeistr;144190]Man, I love the color of your VX.

I'm toying with buying another VX with poor(er) paint and doing a full respray in lime-ish green, in the same vein that Proton is to yellow, this Lime would be to green. Maybe the Lotus lime green?

Anyway, I do like the light bar and it looks like it would be compatible with my fairing. After I get my stereo amp'd and honor my verbal commitment to rowhard for a front 'faux plate,' I would seriously consider this mod. As I'll surely never do a sunroof, even though I would love to, this would fill the 'bald space' between the XM antenna and the fairing. 'No square inch goes un-modded! (Said the guy with a nearly-stock exterior VX, grinning...)

Thanks for the post and cool pictures, castigan.[/QUOTE

ive got the light bar sitting about 5mm in front of the ends of the roof rails... so i think you will find there is plenty of room with your fairing.

[pbkid]

i LOVE the green too...
i wish there was a way for us to get ahold of japanese colors...

[tomdietrying]

Nice job on the lights!
Peace.
Tom
012009

p.s.
pbkid, I don't think the word "jap" is no longer socially acceptable.

[castigan]

if someone wanted the paint its easy enough for me to get. i had the labels removed from the sides and my panel beater matched the paint perfectly. i could get it in bulk for sure. and it would be cheap for americans as your money is pretty strong compared to ours.

[kodiak]

I like it! Good job.:thumbup:

[Bulldoggie]

I like it! Good job.:thumbup:

+1:thumbup:

How about a picture with them lit?

[pbkid]

Nice job on the lights!
Peace.
Tom
012009

p.s.
pbkid, I don't think the word "jap" is no longer socially acceptable.

ya sorry, definately wrote that without paying attention (sorry if i offended anyone)....

i get used to it between colleagues when you work on cars all day long....

fixed it :)

[WiSDoM]

I like the looks of them. Do you have a pictures of them on at night?
reminds me a little of the jeep liberty.

[JHarris1385]

THANK YOU!

There was another post about this exact lights before. I contacted the poster and he was unwilling to help me ship them the US. I will most likely buy these from you in the next week or mid week! I have been wanting these for too long.

NEXT! I have been asking any owner that has them to help source your window deflectors. I would love to have those.

[Gussie2000]

:rolleyes:
I like the looks of them. Do you have a pictures of them on at night?
reminds me a little of the jeep liberty.

Yeap that was my thoughts when i saw those roof lights,however i'm wondering if wind noise wouldn't be a issue at high speed

[JHarris1385]

Do you have the brand name and model of them?

[nfpgasmask]

Castigan, very nice find indeed. They almost look stock, even the plastic housing appears to match the color of the spoiler, etc.

I have been toying around with the idea of adding some reverse lights to my roof rack. Now, with the 4 Hella Ralleye's up top, I can night drive 4x4 trails with no problem. But then, when it comes to backing up to turn around, you are going at it blind, which I found out quickly, can really suck on tight trails with lots of boulders.

Anyway, nice find.


p.s. pbkid, I don't think the word "jap" is no longer socially acceptable.

:laughing:

Bart

[nfpgasmask]

:rolleyes:

Yeap that was my thoughts when i saw those roof lights,however i'm wondering if wind noise wouldn't be a issue at high speed

Anything you put on top of your VX that isn't arrow-dynamic is going to cause wind noise. However, these are fairly low profile compared to what I have, so I think it would not be too bad. Talk about drag:

http://www.nofuture.com/myvx/mods/hella.jpg

Bart

[etlsport]

Anything you put on top of your VX that isn't arrow-dynamic is going to cause wind noise. However, these are fairly low profile compared to what I have, so I think it would not be too bad. Talk about drag:

Bart

yea, im with u there bart, my light setup is very similar to yours (i think my lights are a tad smaller though) i just mounted them back up over the weekend and have definitely noticed more wind noise.. i feel it more in the corners than anything else (i added my crossbars, basket and lights back to the roof)

[pbkid]

bart where did you get the mounting hardware for those lights???

[nfpgasmask]

bart where did you get the mounting hardware for those lights???

It's custom made. My buddy has a full metal shop. He made them for me to fit perfectly to my Coleman Safari Rack. He also made my spikes. :)

Bart

[Jolly Roger VX'er]

I'm actually surprised that my setup doesn't seem to generate any wind noise. (I was expecting it too!) The only noise I seem to ever notice is the occaissional bug committing suicide :eek:

[Tone]

Nice! Great find.

[pbkid]

It's custom made. My buddy has a full metal shop. He made them for me to fit perfectly to my Coleman Safari Rack. He also made my spikes. :)

Bart
ah bummer, i need something like that to mount all my toys to lol...

hopefully i will have a new stric9 bumper soon and i can put em up there instead :)

[nfpgasmask]

ah bummer, i need something like that to mount all my toys to lol.

I need to outfit my garage so I can make this stuff myself!!!

Bart

[etlsport]

ah bummer, i need something like that to mount all my toys to lol...

hopefully i will have a new stric9 bumper soon and i can put em up there instead :)

pb, i made mine out of my basement using an angle grinder, a drill some spray paint and using a lot of careful measurements/ creativity

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/light_rack_003.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9683)

[pbkid]

nice, i like that....

you should take some closer pics so i can see what you came up with...

[castigan]

no wind noise !! i couldnt believe it... no vibrations even.. which surprised me even more...

[nfpgasmask]

pb, i made mine out of my basement using an angle grinder, a drill some spray paint and using a lot of careful measurements/ creativity

So no welding at all? Just bolts?

Man, I want a metal shop so bad. My buddy who makes stuff for me has the works! Tube bender, die press, plasma cutter, mig/tig, every type of saw you could want...just a really pimpy setup....someday.

Bart

[etlsport]

yep all bolts..

I've got yakima lowriders w/ round bars attached to the stock roof rails


http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/covers_008.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9003)

have the lights mounted on a piece of piece of right angle aluminum

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/lightsmounted_021.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=8700)

i have 2 pieces of 1" square aluminum tubing mounted the the underside of the round bars, using yakimas snap-arounds
http://www.yakima.com/FileRender.ashx?ID=260&ImageSize=Big

Ive got long bolts that come down through the rectangular hole (using washers on top of the snap around, under the snap around and under the square tubing).

attaching them to the front and back crossbars makes them really secure, then i just drilled down through the ends (as far back as possible) to attach the piece of aluminum with the lights on it.. and voila.. i had to trim all the bolts so they didnt stick down too far and contact the roof.. now i have at least 3/4-1" of clearance under each bolt.. plus i covered the bottom of all the bolts with a rubber cap just in case

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/light_rack_008.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9681)
http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/light_rack_005.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9680)

also have the yakima loadwarrior mounted above all of that.. but i could take the loadwarrior off and leave the lights if i wanted and vice versa, they are independent of each other

ive used this setup offroad on more than one occasion as well as on the streets of philly (much bouncier than any trail ive ever been on!) with no problems at all

ill try to make an autocad model of it so its easier to see..

[tom4bren]

"you should take some closer pics so i can see what you came up with..."

LOL - I can't believe you said that with a straight face.:)

[nfpgasmask]

Nice job, way to innovate using what you have!

Now, I can't help but ask, your lights look like they point up a little, can you adjust them? I had the same problem with the light bar my friend made. Originally, there was nothing but the posts and the frame, and when mounted, my lights pointed up at 45°. The Hella lights are adjustable, but not that much. So, I had to have him make a triangular mounting to make the posts stick out straight. Hard to explain, but you can see the flat stock in this picture used to make the main frame of the mounting bar sit at 90° to the ground.

http://www.nofuture.com/myvx/mods/hella.jpg

I need to come up with and idea for reverse lights next...

Bart

[etlsport]

yea they were pointed up at first.. that was just poor alignment on my part.. i have since adjusted them so the two in the center hit the ground maybe 100 ft straight ahead.. and the side ones hit maybe 30-35 ft away at like a 25º angle from forward

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/install_weekend_025.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=9767)http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/medium/vx_meet_020.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10944)

[pbkid]

god i wish i could get some money to get some lights worked out like this but they are pretty low on my list of stuff to do...with HID's i dont really NEED them, but i think they would be helpful....

sliders and skidplates are first on the list...

[nfpgasmask]

god i wish i could get some money to get some lights worked out like this but they are pretty low on my list of stuff to do...with HID's i dont really NEED them, but i think they would be helpful....

sliders and skidplates are first on the list...

Yeah, the HIDs really are nice. My buddy told me I can get HID ballast kits for my Hellas which will make them even brighter than they are now. Which would be nice, but at $35 each I can wait, since I need 4. Eventually I will do this though. They just make a huge difference when driving at night. The stock headlights don't cut it.

Bart

[pbkid]

yup, the stock headlight is ok, but the HID's make them amazing...

i actually found some reasonably priced driving lights that come with the HID set up...gonna pick up a set for myself to mount to the front of my VX...

[Marlin]

I bought the kit off of ebay from hong kong, was a little under 50 dollars, got here in 4 days, and they are amazing. Its a dual beam kit, but I could not get the halogen brights to work, but you don't need them anyway, the HIDs are brighter. Their customer service was great, there is a slight wiring mod you have to do, on their plugs, not the factory, otherwise, its plug and play. Everything fit perfect. There is a one year warranty on the bulbs, but even if you had to buy a whole new kit, its cheaper than silverstars.
Let the flaming begin...:flame:

[VX-157]

ok so heres my little half day project, saw these at a shop here in new zealand. and im glad i got them..they are great and look good too. almost a perfect fit. no drilling needed and come pre-wired. just need to connect + and - from battery or high beam... the wires run perfectly down the window under the door seals.
they are 4 55w spotlights, can switch the outside two or inside two or all 4 at once. metal cases for the lamps on a plastic/abs base. lights can be adjusted up n down etc.. and have rubber surrounds to keep water out. all held on by 3M mounting tape which they come with also.
i did do some mods, i epoxied the screws that hold the lamps at the bottom so they can then be adjusted while mounted, and i re-wrapped the wires to make them lay flat when under the door seals. other than that these units fit right out of the box.

i can buy and ship to USA for around $150us if any of you guys over there want some. have a paypal account to make it easy. plus ill donate $5 from each sale to the site for all the good work.
]


Hey mate, could you pm the brand and store where you got these from? i like to see if i can get them on this side of the pond. if i am unable to get them here i may pm you about getting some shipped to Oz if that is ok.

Cheers

[don moore]

http://cgi.ebay.com/4X4-JEEP-SUV-CRV-ABS-ROOF-SPOT-LIGHT-BAR-BLUE-LENS-475_W0QQitemZ260348109771QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Car sParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item260348109771&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177#ShippingPayment

$150 is a good price shipped....

[VXRaven]

I am MORE than interested! This is my email: snowwolf83@hotmail.com. You can also private message me on this site as I'm doing everything I can to get my VX fixed without pumping anymore money than I need to in it!

I have a question though: if you look at my last post in the VX Troubleshooting thread, I completely forgot to mention the problem with my fuse board. The guy that previously owned my vehicle had ghetto-rigged a LOT of stuff to the fuse board and it wasn't until I went through an entire box of fuses that I decided to figure out what the hell was wrong. Apparently the previous owner rigged a wire that connects the "trunk popper" button to the same fuse that runs the internal and head lights.

Point is, I want to add those lights to the top of my VX, but I don't want to screw up my fuse board more than it has already been screwed with. What do you suggest?

-VXRaven:grino:

[Gussie2000]

I never like the idea of even touching the fuse board for any reason.

If i add roof lights to my VX (which i'll deffinetly do) i'll just run a independent wiring from the battery + terminal,run a - wire to ground or chassis,add a in-line fuse to the the + wire,run it the wiring thru the firewall & add a switch to the dash,that's all.

Isn't necessary to mess with the fuse board at all to add roof lights.

I added a nice set of blue LED light nozzles without touching the fuse board.

I just attached the nozzle's + wire to the left + head light wire,add a 0.5 amps in-line fuse to it & run the - wire to ground,the LED's lits up only when my head lights are on which are barely use.

I'll posting few pics this week end in my gallery's album.

[etlsport]

for those curious/ who want to recreate it here is a CAD model of my light rack setup

Green is the yakima loadwarrior
Yellow are yakima round bars attached to my roof rails
Red is the square tube mounts that support the light rack
Blue is the light rack itself
yellow/blue are the lights themselves
orange is the yakima connectors i used



http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/yakima1.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12859)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/yakima2.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=12860)