Brake Lights Mod
 

Your brake lights...

http://www.mos95b.com/bitpim/wallpaper/0911051044.jpg

My brake lights...

http://www.mos95b.com/bitpim/wallpaper/0911051415.jpg

Only took a couple of hours, half a pint of blood, 3 band-aids, 1/4 tube burn ointment (molten plastic is hot boys and girls), 12 swear words, and 3 beers....

Thanks to RandMan for the parts, and BillBoost for shipping them.

How'd ya do it?

you finally got it done.....its what been about a year and a half



looks great....more details

All I did was dremel out the running light holes to accept the larger brake light sockets. Spliced the current running light circuit into the new sockets. Then ran a wire to tap the brake lights into the brake light circuit.

The catch was, the brake light sockets have to be trimmed a bit. They're about a 1/2 inch too long to fit between the light assembly and the trunk. Luckily, there's plenty of extra socket there to trim off.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any during pics. Camera phone ran out of memory, and I didn't feel like tracking down the real camera...

We send you stuff and you don't even give us pics???

How can I tell itf it's a clean install?

Good work John..looks good

looks good john. next up is to light up the pontiac between the lights like they do on the sun fires.

seems AWSOME...may just have to do that with LED bulbs :twisted:

Nope. No LEDs.

And the PONTIAC may be next summer...

the LED's are for me...not you :lol:

I wish you finished this earlier, was at a U pull it junk yard a few weeks ago and they had a center in perfect condition.

I said "No!" :lol:

Yeah, I kinda misread that one, huh?? I was wondering why you thought I had LED's in there... :oops:

Shouldn't need an extra. Kinda hard to mess it up. The holes for the running light sockets have an indent around them the same size as a brake light socket. The hardest part is making notches for the little tabs....

John....no lamp monitor from the running lights missing?

I was thinking of going all out and making a full LED set up in that little space. would be super bright :shock:

I'm the kind of person who wont drill into anything origional incase I need to go back...although that didn't work well my my air box :lol:

SE. No lamp monitor to worry about. Besides, there's bulbs there, just not the originals. That's why I wanted brake light sockets for the project. Still have running lights, just added brake lights.

As soon as I get a helper, I'll try getting a vid of the new setup

COWARD!!! :lol:

No guts, no glory!!!

I had the JB Weld ready, just in case....

Sooo you hooked the parking up the regular circuit and added the stop lamps. Nice.. You need an SSE/SSEi so you understand the pains of lamp monitoring.

indeed I am when it involves cutting into my baby.

Lamp Monitor = Pull the bulb from the dash..... :lol:

It's not a simple pulling of a bulb like that John, it's the whole DIC which as we know..can be a _ _ _ _

I installed a similar setup in the wifes old 944. The difference was that the 944 housings were made for additional bulbs (euro setup). No drilling required - just plug/splice and play.

And now the video (ignore the sound)

Opens with Quicktime

http://www.mos95b.com/New/0912051916.3g2

its like the trunklights are a little delayed...but looks uber cool

yeah they look delayed. but still sweet.

Looks cool. I should try something like that on my Malibu, the trunk lights on it are not lights only reflectors.


As for the delay, I have noticed that on a few cars ( I see alot of cars during the day with all the driving I do), and on those cars it is stock lighting. Have to stay amused some how while driving so I noticed that one day.

I'm not sure on the delay thing. It looks like it in the movie. I'll have to get my helper (aka The Missus) and see if it's both sides, or if it's just the vid...