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Thank you to Golden86 for this writeup on modifying your Fiero tail lights with LEDs.
First you tear the lights apart, just release the tabs around the light. You have to be VERY carefull not to brake the tabs, the lens' are VERY expensive. Once the light is apart, you have to make a template out of cardboard, like so...
I got my LED's from www.Besthongkong.com IT took a while to get here, but they are good quality. they are 10mm LED's BTW.
After you have your template you have to get yourself some thin ABS plastic, or the equvelent. Drill a TON of holes, looks something like this when the LED's are in place...
Wire them all up, glue them in place, and make sure you use the correct resistors. I can't tell you what resistor to use, because there are differnt LED's out there that use different volteges, so you will have to know some basic electronics here. Cram it back into the lens, check for fitment...
Put the entire assembly back together and it should look something liek this...
Now for the easy part, the LED modulator. LED's can't dim, so you have to make them blink REALLY fast, so fast the human eye can't see it, it sees it as dimming. Here are the schematics of it. These are correct to a point, I didn't draw in the diodes you will need for the incomming power, I just put those befor this circuit. It is nice having a girlfriend whos father is an electrical engineer, he literealy drew this up on a napkin when we where out for dinner, then he madeit nice on a computer so I could read it.
You only need to make one of these modulators, because the brake lights are the only ones that will dim, the turn signals will run straight off the socket in the car.
Here are a few finished pics of it on the car, it is so hard to get a clear night shot...
and with the 4 ways on so you can see the top part
Sorry for the quick and dirty version, but I did this so long ago I forgot most of the specifics. Only registered users can write comments.
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