New-Look for JDm rear cluster Options

[Sthen]

I have just modified my rear JDM cluster......
i have removed the orange plastic...
The work is easy to do........
I'm thinking to do a how-to...
i have done an how-to in my forum but is in Italian....
Look the pics and tell me what do you think about!!!!!

Spot the difference


Bulb customized


On my celica






This post has been edited by Sthen: Jun 24, 2006 - 9:02 AM

[Akimbo]

That is awesome!

[HaRv3sTeR]

[HaRv3sTeR]

I want to see pic at night

[Supersprynt]

The how to is going to say put it in the oven @3xx degrees for xxmins and then pop the plastic out.

[turboinduction]

Looks great! A nice How-to would be great.

[ghostdog]

looks great with the silver. nice job man.

[Batman722]

that looks hot. nice job

[Ryu3x16]

[Mynzeyes]

you painted the bulbs? they have the ones that are chrome/silver and light up orange in stores now. . but sexy, imma prolly do this to mine right when i get them. .

-John-

[Sthen]

The how to is going to say put it in the oven @3xx degrees for xxmins and then pop the plastic out.

cut the black plastic is much easy than warm in the oven



after you have only to close with silicon


This post has been edited by Sthen: Oct 26, 2006 - 6:02 AM

[Sthen]

i have just done another mod on my rear JDm cluster
now i have 4 stop lights

[sphinx]

[Consynx]

what about the clear plastic covering the orange plastic
the JDM tail has a seem there, so im guessing that it can pop out, but iunno exactly how
boiling in water might not be fun

[kevstir]

Just did mines too , i know the car needs a wash but the weathers too crap the now lol

[flipside97LTD]

Looks really good dude... heheh hey just curious, who's the babe in your signature???

[HaRv3sTeR]

Sthen, what paint did you use for lights borders?

This post has been edited by HaRv3sTeR: Sep 19, 2004 - 10:13 AM

[red_94gts]

[Sthen]

I have found in the web the girl that's in my signature
i don't know her

I have used the same paint of the car..... same colour...

@ kevstir : nice work

[HaRv3sTeR]

Im now in the club too!!!



http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_image...199_16_full.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_image...199_15_full.jpg

[Sthen]

Great.....

Now we can found a new club

CLEAR_REAR_BLINKER_CLUB

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER

[doGGy]

Add me to this one too 1 week later i'v bought my clusters, and imidiatly made them clear You didnt posted how to by what time, but i did myne exactly like you did Some telepathy ya know

[Sthen]

CLEAR_REAR_BLINKER_CLUB

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY


@ Doggy do you have some pics of your car???

i have just buyd TRD resr WING

This post has been edited by Sthen: Sep 21, 2004 - 10:36 AM

[turboinduction]

me too - I dont need to be in a club though.

but I'm also working on another slight version of my JDMs. But i'm not telling......

lol
-Ti

[Sthen]

this club is only a joke

what are you doing..... tell tell

[turboinduction]

[red_94gts]

i wanna be in a club

[drhossa]

@sthen
How did you cut the plastic?

[Sthen]

CLEAR_REAR_BLINKER_CLUB

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS

[Sthen]

[drhossa]

What du you mean with cutter?
I eally can't imagine, sorry am a German
Could you show me a picture as an example?

I'm also removing the yellow glass...

[doGGy]

[drhossa]

Did you do it like Sthen?
I'm afraid that you'll see cut from outside, because there's silver color inside. So doesn't it ´get black?

[doGGy]

[drhossa]

Ok thanks, i'll try it.

[Sthen]

.....sorry for the delay...
Doggy has shown correctly the way to modify che blinker.....

If you need i can send pics to you

[dahoman9]

how did you make it have four stop lights? what wiring did you have to do?

[Consynx]

i want correct way...tell me

[NEVERSTOP]

LOL I have been thinking about trying this with my extra JDM tail light for a while now but havent gotten around to it.. the yellow is allready busted loose from shipping.

Im gonna try the boiling technique on it tonight and I'll let you guys know how that goes

[Sthen]

you have to connect the white/green wire(stop light) to the black/red wire(rear for) using a diod, do you also put a diod between relais and rear fog light

[Digndoug]

[NEVERSTOP]

[Consynx]

you didn't boil

you bum, now we'll never know...NEVER!!!

[dahoman9]

hehe, Neverstop, I like your mirror GIF. hehe, representing that you're a celica PIMP.

hey, Sthen, thanks to you, I'm met my goal and got rid of all the ugly orange lights on my car. I put the silver/red lights on my blinker though. I guess I'm in the clear/silver "club" as well now I did the cutting. but it was hard cause I guess I didn't cut the whole big enough. BUt it's all good, I pried it out with a screwdriver. Since the orange piece was made of plastic it's bendable. it's much like the front turning signals. WHy was the front turning signals in American like that but the rear, we had to buy these JDM ones?

It's awesome. I wanna work on the four stop lights. That looks tight. Pictures later as soon as it stops raining and I can wash my car.

[Sthen]

We have removed the orange plastic from the front signal in the SIMOSBRAZ's car.....
the same way than the rear cluster...
cut
remove
and close

[dahoman9]

yeah, I know. I did it long ago and put some xenon lights in it. I was just saying...that in the U.S. version of our car, they made the front signals like that, but the tails aren't and the JDM are. But oh well, I love my car much more now. No more orange at all.


This post has been edited by dahoman9: Nov 8, 2004 - 8:13 AM

[Shodog1054]

That looks awesome! I'd like to do it to my car. How much are a pair of JDM tail lights?

[LatinKraze]

$200-250

[dahoman9]

got mine from ebay for 248 shipped from hong kong

[drhossa]

My taillights

[kevstir]

[drhossa]

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...22&hl=schwaiger

[Sthen]

Hi drhossa...
i'm also euopean than you!
i'm from italy....
in 2005 i'll go to ring so we can do a meeting with my italian 6gc friends

Do you know somebody in GTN or GTFOUR.ch?

[Sthen]

The club grown

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS
006) DRHOSSA
007) DAHOMAN9
008) NEVERSTOP
009) SIMOSBRAZ

[drhossa]

I know some GT4 riders from gtfour.ch like Steve from Switzerland, Marcus, Jörg, Dominic and Thomas from Germany. 2 reds, one blue, one silver.
From gtn I know Emma a bit...

Will you be at the gt4 meeting next year from gtfour.ch? Probably I'm there too.
We'll meet at Hockenheim, if you mean the Hockenheimring, because I live 4km from there Or do you mean the Nürburgring?
Just write when you're there!

[Sthen]

OK.. probably you have seen my car on gtfour.ch

In past i can't be at gtfour meeting but in 2005 i hope to can be togheter
In my post i mean Nurburgring......
but if the meet will be ah Hockenheimring... i'll be there !

CU soon

[GT4_Addicted]

I know Joërg and Thomas from Germany...

i came at the international gt four meeting in Switzerland this year...

let me know if there's another big Europeen 6th Celica meeting...

to come back to the original subject... it's a very cool mods... i think i'll go this way too...

[Consynx]

next person who does this please take theral pics after it's been cut open and such...
i've seen a screw holding the orange in, but i dont see how you guys are getting to it at that angle

[dahoman9]

yeah it was hard. I took one of those wrenches that you can plug in screwdriver heads or whatever. Sorry, I dont know the names of the tools. And I put in there and unscrewed it. no way you can fit a screwdriver in there.

[Nigel]

they sell these on ebay but you have to know the pin size i think any one know what it is?? is think is ither 120 160?

[Lar-]

Nice work... Sthen.

[Sthen]

Thank's...... LAr-

[Lar-]

Hi Sthen...

I saw that you've taken out all your rear seats. Are you into street or circuit racing now??

I'm never bored looking at your sweet Celica..

Ciao...

[Sthen]

Hi Lar,
yes in 5th december we'll be in MONZA in a trackday...
i'm also removing some plastic parts in my celica...

Thank's for your words!!!!
but i think your car is the powerful/better/nice copy of my car

Ciao
S

[Lar-]

A Track Day at MONZA!!!! This is interesting... Should be alot of fun...
3 more days to the event, so are you prepared for the Track Day??

Please take some photos ok... I woulds love to see the atmosphere over there.

Good luck at MONZA. I hope you'll bring a trophy home.

Ciao..

[Sthen]

Trackday will be very exciting........

In 5th dec will be a "coupè-convertible event" so we'll see more Ferrari-Porsche and many other car of this kind..... ...so probably i'll can't get some price....

But i have full tuned my celi for the event:

*Lightening
*Video
*Camera...

I'll post all my goods done in MONZA


The best trackday for us will be in 6 february for the "JAPANESE-AMERICAN DAY"
we are waiting for this...that promise to be the biggest meet of the year!!!!
Last year in february was 20 celicaT20 from my club (great number in italy)

[Sthen]

I have to tell a big thing....the fist car with this style of rear blinker was the red/purlish Celica St205 owned by Steve the boss in www.gtfour.ch

so the club is
000) STEVE

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS
006) DRHOSSA
007) DAHOMAN9
008) NEVERSTOP
009) SIMOSBRAZ

[dahoman9]

hehe, I'm 007

[JoKeRkId613]

hey! why didnt i think of that? my curren tails have the yellow plastic for the blinker too. u think it'll work the same way? o yea, harvester, i love your car! its awesome. nice and clean. keep it up bro.

[forkee]

whoa!! ive been looking for this thread, thanks for bumping it =)

[dahoman9]

it should work, I guess. Try it out, it won't hurt anything. let the others on here know if it works. I'm sure someone would want to know.

[JoKeRkId613]

No problem. Bump. Lol. Just in case anyone else missed it. I'm going to try it if I could get the bolts off the back of the tails. Lol. They're stuck! I tightened them too much and ruined the thread.

[Supersprynt]

I thought bout it but the curren tails are harder to get in case you screw up.

[Phat_99CeliGT]

i been wanting to do this.
might do it later today.

[forkee]

woohoo!!


000) STEVE

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS
006) DRHOSSA
007) DAHOMAN9
008) NEVERSTOP
009) SIMOSBRAZ
010) FORKEE

[TomPoz]

Hi, could you clarify two things for me?
First, are two diods needed - one for wires and one for relay?
Second, what happens to the fog light when you do that mod? Do they work normally?

Some pics of the setup would be great!!!

you have to connect the white/green wire(stop light) to the black/red wire(rear for) using a diod, do you also put a diod between relais and rear fog light
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[TomPoz]

000) STEVE

001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS
006) DRHOSSA
007) DAHOMAN9
008) NEVERSTOP
009) SIMOSBRAZ
010) FORKEE
011) TOMPOZ

I have just finished.... now cross-connecting brake lights and fogs to have this nice USDM look when braking.

[WannabeGT4]

000) STEVE
001) STHEN
002) KEVSTIR
003) HARV3STER
004) DOGGY
005) RED_94GTS
006) DRHOSSA
007) DAHOMAN9
008) NEVERSTOP
009) SIMOSBRAZ
010) FORKEE
011) TOMPOZ
012) WannabeGT4

Oops! Forgot to add my name to the list a couple weeks ago.

[dustin15brown]

I'll be doing this probably in the two weeks my car is at the shop... I can't wait

[dustin15brown]

bump... trying this tommorow..... I think... What did everyone use on the bulbs?

[Akimbo]

there are chrome bulbs at autozone..i cant speak for them tho

[WannabeGT4]

bump... trying this tommorow..... I think... What did everyone use on the bulbs?
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=7991078729

Your signals will be a bit faster though.

[playr158]

dude it has to be a YELLOW bulb not red.....

dustin its an 1156 or 1157 yellow bulb....get it from autozone

[WannabeGT4]

dude it has to be a YELLOW bulb not red.....

dustin its an 1156 or 1157 yellow bulb....get it from autozone
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No it doesn't! Red is perfectly legal for the rear turn signal lights. I'd suggest you look up your local state/city's ordinance though.

All of my bulbs were 7440/7443, not 1156/1157. You must have used the USDM bulbs and harness.

If that's the case I'd use these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=7990103526

This post has been edited by WannabeGT4: Aug 17, 2005 - 1:37 PM

[playr158]

yup i did use the USDM harness......

and i know my state laws and such...u don't

hence why i said use yellows to be safe....but if you local permits it don't really matter

This post has been edited by playr158: Aug 17, 2005 - 2:55 PM

[WannabeGT4]

It's OK Dustin. Red is fine in your state:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title9/ar19/ch6.pdf

IC Title 9 Article 19 Chapter 6 Section 17
Stop lamps and turn signals; color, visibility, and operation Sec. 17.
(a) A motor vehicle may be equipped, and when required under this chapter must be equipped, with a stop lamp or lamps on the rear of the vehicle that:
(1) displays a red or an amber light, or any shade of color between red and amber, visible from a distance of not less than one hundred (100) feet to the rear in normal sunlight;
(2) will be actuated upon application of the service (foot) brake;and
(3) may be incorporated with at least one (1) other rear lamp.
(b) A motor vehicle may be equipped and when required under this chapter must be equipped with lamps or mechanical signal devices showing to the front and rear for the purpose of indicating an intention to turn either to the right or left. If lamps are used for this purpose, the lamps showing to the front must be located on the samelevel and as widely spaced laterally as practicable and when in usemust display a white or an amber light, or any shade of color between white and amber, visible from a distance of not less than one hundred (100) feet to the front in normal sunlight. The lamps showing to the rear must be located at the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable and when in use must display a red or an amber light, or any shade of color between red and amber, visible from a distance of not less than one hundred (100) feet to the rear in normal sunlight. When actuated the lamps must indicate the intended direction of turning by flashing the lights showing to the front and rear on the side toward which the turn is made. If mechanical signal devices are
used for this purpose, the devices must be self-illuminated when in use at the times required by IC 9-21-7-2.
© A stop lamp or signal lamp or device may not project a glaring light.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.7. Amended by P.L.1-1991, SEC.93.

This post has been edited by WannabeGT4: Aug 18, 2005 - 8:19 AM

[playr158]

you have no life kid

[WannabeGT4]

you have no life kid
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I have an easy job, with lots of free time to prove dumb punks wrong. Don't say something unless you know it's true. Saying that your rear turn signals have to be amber is the dumbest sh!t I've heard. Look at all the other cars out there that only have red signals. Did they come from the factory illegal?

/yourself

JDM tails aren't approved by the DOT anyway.

This post has been edited by WannabeGT4: Aug 18, 2005 - 8:19 AM

[elvasoshexai]

hm.. guess i can be part of this club too... but dammit... did anyone else fuk up their taillights while doing this mod or am i the only one?

this was the 1st time i used a dremel and damn also for the first light that orange piece took a helluva long time to get out

1st one i did, the inside got scratched up all over the place and it shows from the outside...

2nd one epoxy kinda got stuck to the lense and it shows from the outside...

looks like ass up close ><

i guess i ruined my $200+ taillights. *sad*

This post has been edited by elvasoshexai: Dec 30, 2005 - 3:25 AM

[dustin15brown]

pics?

[elvasoshexai]

they aren't on the car yet.. waiting for sealant to dry... but yea.. these pics show how i messed up

Passenger's Side (1st one I did):


Driver's Side (2nd one I did):


they're actually more noticeable in real life

This post has been edited by elvasoshexai: Dec 31, 2005 - 2:35 AM

[dustin15brown]

that sucks man, goodluck with it

[elvasoshexai]

damn no drip epoxy is a scam.. should've learnt how to use it first