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  soongster said:
its wired up to the brake lights but i chose to wire it up with the wires that would light up when i turn on the lights and not when i brake.. am i making sense here? i dont know how to put it in a shorter and less confusing sentence...

i sprayed the garnish to fit the car color (but it doesnt :D ) , cos the garnish is clear and the leds would be too bright, i put some masking tape over the letters, was planning to peel em out after i sprayed the garnish, but when i fitted it on b4 peeling the tape out, it looked good enough. had that 'embossed' look. so was happy leaving the masking tape on ;) ..

about the color, anyone know where i can get the exact colors for touch up in a spray can? color is gmg..

I bought my touch up paint from 3d paint, give them the colour code from under your bonnet and they have the mixture in their system as long as it is an original colour.

  chrissyo said:
Can you buy the series one fascia that you need anyone? im really keen to do this :D

I rang a jap wreckers in brisbane cost me 50bucks posted to CQ, 60 dollars for leds(30'000; brightest i could find) bout 60cents for resistors. and 40 for paints so far.

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Heres mine so far, except the gap between the top and main part has been filled with sickaflex and painted....only problem im having is painting around the letters, its sorta mounding from the letter to the back part on a 45degree angle sorta and not squaring off?驴? if ya can understand what im trying to say.

I painted mine black everywhere bar the letters, then gone white everywhere, so it looks like a normal series 2 during day. shines through well enough i believe.

  NA_Goodness said:
DR D00F, thats really cool. Do they flash or something? Or fade? Is that ur car? What happened 2 ur plates?

They go red on brakes... I'm thinking about making either a flashing blue one for shows to go with the neons on the car (programmable) or to make it flash a number of different colours, or just ultra violet :laugh: Haven't quite decided... all will cost me about $280 to $300...

  NeboRdChick said:
Im surprised there's no easy way to get this done thru ebay or something.

I want mine to light up!

There is an easy way :) either through me or MLT15E (also on the forums) but I have yet to actually sell one cause people get scared at the price :bunny:

  DRD-00F said:
They go red on brakes... I'm thinking about making either a flashing blue one for shows to go with the neons on the car (programmable) or to make it flash a number of different colours, or just ultra violet :banana: Haven't quite decided... all will cost me about $280 to $300...

There is an easy way :) either through me or MLT15E (also on the forums) but I have yet to actually sell one cause people get scared at the price :)

Ppl have to understand that they are not cheap to make. Ive been making mine since August last year, i want it to be perfect :D (paintings the problem)

Some bloke wanted to buy the original green off a mate for $900, apparently he couldnt work out how to get it off at the time ??? have you got a photo of the circuitry for a special one, do you use a lot of LEDs on one board or just the one colour?

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  • 4 weeks later...
  3340TH said:
Ppl have to understand that they are not cheap to make. Ive been making mine since August last year, i want it to be perfect :blink: (paintings the problem)

Some bloke wanted to buy the original green off a mate for $900, apparently he couldnt work out how to get it off at the time ??? have you got a photo of the circuitry for a special one, do you use a lot of LEDs on one board or just the one colour?

yeah it's not some backyard job... I get my painting done at a proffesional spray painters...

Depends what you mean by special really... I don't know if I have made a special one just yet... been busy in life and stuffs, hopefully one will get made in the next few months after I move (again) :)

  bilbo117 said:
How much are you selling these for mate? Interested

I read somewhere once you could buy a new original one through nissan for around 600?????

Well that makes mine cheap as! :P

$350 for everything, $50 less if you can get a good series 1 (clear) facia to me :)

  r33doom said:
did mine recently, looks mad as! :laugh:

Piccies?! :D

  DRD-00F said:
yeah it's not some backyard job... I get my painting done at a proffesional spray painters...

Depends what you mean by special really... I don't know if I have made a special one just yet... been busy in life and stuffs, hopefully one will get made in the next few months after I move (again) :wacko:

Well that makes mine cheap as! :whistling:

$350 for everything, $50 less if you can get a good series 1 (clear) facia to me :sick:

Piccies?! :nyaanyaa:

yeh? thats not to bad i guess. Are yours LED or EL sheeting?

and if they are LED, the individual lights dont stick out like dog balls do they?

Cheers.

It does a bit actually! :D

  NA_Goodness said:
DR D00F, thats really cool. Do they flash or something? Or fade? Is that ur car? What happened 2 ur plates?

Sorry I didn't see this before...

Nah that's not my car, it's on Cassbo's car :( That one is fairly ordinary, doesn't do much... I'll be working on a strobing, flashing, controllable one soon, but it will take a LOT of time (I might have some of that soon! :P) and quite a bit of money...

EDIT: Turns out I did see this before and already answered it :D

  bilbo117 said:
yeh? thats not to bad i guess. Are yours LED or EL sheeting?

and if they are LED, the individual lights dont stick out like dog balls do they?

Cheers.

LED, and no, as you can see they are pretty evenly spread...

  • 3 weeks later...
  DRD-00F said:
Well that makes mine cheap as! :D

$350 for everything, $50 less if you can get a good series 1 (clear) facia to me :)

Hey

Would you make a couple and sell in a group buy?

I would be quite interested in a either red led or blue led background.

Can u make it for a Series 2 R33? ;)

  Ryan12 said:
i think i read further back in the thread that you cant do it for a series 2 r33?

Correct me if im wrong, otherwise id certainly do mine as well :)

  3340TH said:
I painted mine black everywhere bar the letters, then gone white everywhere, so it looks like a normal series 2 during day. shines through well enough i believe.

yeh seems as though its done already.

I wouldnt mind one for my Series 2 as they really look awesome :(

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