Turn signal wiring question

[OakvilleGTR]

Good morning all,

Bit of a random question but figured I’d finally throw it out after wondering for a long while. Before I start, I'm hoping to do this purely out of personal preference. I think it would look better at night, and don't mind at all spending a few hours and dollars to get it done.

I've copied this from a non-Skyline specific forum, so I apologize for the explanation of our headlight switch setup that we all know. Here we go:

Zero lights (switch off) Parking lights (switch position 1) being a rectangular marker on the outside of the housing, my low beam being the projector in the centre (position 2), and a high beam triggered by my turn signal stalk.

Most North American cars I’ve owned of this era have power to the amber corner (turning indicator) light as part of the first switch (parking lights).

I’d love to have these amber corners receive power when the headlights and parking lights are on (headlight switch), yet still blink when using the turn signal which is of course a separate switch.

Hopefully I’ve explained my question correctly. Is anyone aware of a way in which I might be able to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

[GTSBoy]

Indicator bulbs are way too bright to use as a "corner marker" (we call them parking lights too).

Sure. Go ahead and do it. But realise that you wil need to come up with all your own wiring to do it, as no-one will have a standard howto worked out for Skylines.

It's just a matter of abandoning everything that Nissan have done and starting from scratch.

You'd probably be better off retrofitting tailght/brakelight globe bases into the front indicator housings and using the taillight circuit for your corner marker and the brake light as the indicator. You'd need to work out how to kill the marker circuit while the indicator is flashing, otherwise it won't flash on-off, just bright-less bright.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

13 hours ago, OakvilleGTR said:

Hopefully I’ve explained my question correctly. Is anyone aware of a way in which I might be able to achieve this?

Thanks in advance

Convert to dual filament bulb

 

FWIW, it will look odd - I dare say a bit dumb as it looks like your flasher relay has shit the bed.

[MBS206]

Sounds like using one of those configs modern cars use where they turn off the whole headlight these days on the side that the indicator is flashing on.

[r32-25t]

Would require a very smart body control module which these cars are about 20 years to old to have 

[GTSBoy]

1 hour ago, MBS206 said:

Sounds like using one of those configs modern cars use where they turn off the whole headlight these days on the side that the indicator is flashing on.

Not the headlight. It's the DRL that serves double duty as white and amber.

10 minutes ago, r32-25t said:

Would require a very smart body control module which these cars are about 20 years to old to have 

Would be the easiest way to make it happen, if fitting a BCM was in any way an easy thing. Otherwise you'd do it with some relay logic and/or maybe some diodes.