Just Got Carried Away with the Family Project

[nascarnate326]

Looks good man. Insane amount of detail going into this.

[Curt_irocz]

Wow sanding and Polishing the botum of the hood. Probably going to do mine now. Looks great!

[OVRKILL]

Looks great Jim....geez 5months to paint a hood?

I didn't know Virginia Speed did body work too

[BlackBirdDaddy]

That is funny. That is the place I found while searching. Then I thought I would just ask you. You know, I might be able to help you with that diffuser thing. PM if your interested. Anything to help that car come along! Man, I am amazed at what you are doing!

Dan, thanks for the diffuser material. I need to get more space between the led's ans the back side of the lens. There are still "hot spots" even with the diffuser in place.




This will be good for now so I can finally get this damn thing on the road!

THANX Dan!!!

[BlackBirdDaddy]

Yippie!!!! Finally got the hood back from the painter's this week. It has only been over there for over 5 months!!


I started to sand and rub the hood inner which is quite a task.




Then the rear heat extractors had to get paint in the ports because the traditional paint gun can not fill them with paint. I ended up shooting them with a semi-gloss out of a rattle can.








While the paint was drying I decided to "fool around" with some lighting in the door panels........








Unfortunately, this did not work because i could not make the light pipe look consistant throughout the door trim panel, plus rtv would not stick to the plastic panel.









I ended up with this.....

[Sic96]

My God, what an inspiring thread! I love your ideas and attention to detail. This guy slaps an LS2 in a firebird and it's perfect! I can't even get my damn LT1 running right now in its original form!! FML You wanna trade lives for about, oh... forever

[s8bayer]

Thanks!

Here you go Don, this store has everything: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...specs/WFLS.htm

I still want to put a diffuser lens behind the outside lens to mask the "hot spots."

That is funny. That is the place I found while searching. Then I thought I would just ask you. You know, I might be able to help you with that diffuser thing. PM if your interested. Anything to help that car come along! Man, I am amazed at what you are doing!

[BlackBirdDaddy]

Looking great man! I am really amazed at all the ideas you are coming up with. Curious, where did you get the strip LEDs for the side markers. I have been looking for these for a while. Thanks man! Keep it up... I am watching close.

Thanks!

Here you go Don, this store has everything: http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...specs/WFLS.htm

I still want to put a diffuser lens behind the outside lens to mask the "hot spots."

[thisisthewayilive]

x1000 steering wheel and gauges look sick!

[s8bayer]

I am not using the stock parts. I fit a piece of flat black plastic to the opening and placed the led self sticking strip to it and RTV'd it in place. Then I cut some lens material 3mm x 3mm pillow type stock and fit it snug to the opening. After I tint the lens a bit and find some sort of diffusing material to try and hide the "hot spots" of the led's, I will then RTV it in place flush with the body. I hope this helps.

Looking great man! I am really amazed at all the ideas you are coming up with. Curious, where did you get the strip LEDs for the side markers. I have been looking for these for a while. Thanks man! Keep it up... I am watching close.

[Iroc'nthe87]

Your a sick man Jim! Haha looks awesome dude!

[BlackBirdDaddy]

That is awesome(thanks so much!) , I have been trying to figure out what bulbs I have needed for a long time. Were they easy to install?

Very easy except for the HVAC bulbs. For some reason I had to break them out and then grab the filement with a pair of needle nose to get the rest out.

*And they actually work with the dimmer switch somewhat, which is more than what I was expecting!

[ryanwarby01]

That is awesome(thanks so much!) , I have been trying to figure out what bulbs I have needed for a long time. Were they easy to install?

[BlackBirdDaddy]

Did you put LEDs in your dash? I have a 6LE overlay I'm getting ready to install and was thinking of using the LEDs to change the dash light color. If you did use them where did you buy them? BTW this is one of the best projects I have followed!

Edit: Nevermind, I just enlarged your pic and saw where you bought the LEDs.

Ryan, here is everything you need - http://6litereaterdesigns.com/forum/...p?topic=1077.0

I ordered these last Tuesday and they were at my doorstep on Thursday!

Good luck and thanx!

[ryanwarby01]

Did you put LEDs in your dash? I have a 6LE overlay I'm getting ready to install and was thinking of using the LEDs to change the dash light color. If you did use them where did you buy them? BTW this is one of the best projects I have followed!

Edit: Nevermind, I just enlarged your pic and saw where you bought the LEDs.