anyone did this mod?

[MZ-N10]

Here are some CLEAR 24 LED arrays that plug right into our stock sockets for turn and brake. RED LEDs do not work well going through the red plastic of the lens. http://www.autolumination.com/

yea ive seen those around...but they dont give the desired effect i want...i wanted to do a conversion liek the one they ahve at clearcorner.com(sp?) for teh 240sx(japanese 2way conversion or soemthing) i cant think of a stock car tat has it rite now...but something like the caddys sts...etc even if they dont work out well....it didnt cost me much, spent about 15 bucks on 200 clear red leds....

oh and mbeach thanks man forgot bout this little thing called GOOGLE ....i think ill just bundle 3 of them together and avoid the whole resistor deal. and im not planning on doing the blinkers yet....

1 last thing...if someone has the time...can u plz do a rough measure of the little rectangle tat the vx brake light is in(cant get to my own vx rite now)...not sure how else to discribe it...
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[mbeach]

Caddies, FXs and some of the E46 BMWs (convertibles) use a special type of LED called the Luxeon Star.

They are very bright and expensive surface mount LEDs. They also have a larger "footprint", and that's why there is so much space between the lights inside the housing.

At least one company sells 'bricks' of Luxeon Stars, they come in 3 and 6 LED long strips that can be broken apart (like a chocolate bar).

[WyrreJ]

I think stars are still pretty rare in production vehicles. Luxeon makes another, lower power, model that is packaged in squares that are the most common in production vehicles.

The place to learn about lights, LED or otherwise, is www.candlepowerforums.com .

[mbeach]

Those bars are here:
http://www.superbrightleds.com/
Follow the LED links to the 'light bars' -judging by the size of the VXs' brake light 'hole', you should only need one full bar per side.
There's also a ton of LED info on that site. Worth bookmarking, it has calculators and links to other LED conversion projects.


The Luxeons are actually common, though under different names on vehicles -I've taken apart an FXs tailight just to see how it was put together.
They are referred to as "high flux LEDs" in most places. The Luxeon Stars are just the brightest and best quality units that I have heard of.

Personally, I use good old high-intensity (normal) LEDs for most of my lighting applications, due to their wide (45* +) viewing angles.

[GOVEHIX]

thank you very much for the info.