[KerbyG]

Hey everyone!
Its been too long since I've been on here.
Work has had me tied down bretty hard, and made working on my daily blazer a pain.
But recently I built a brake light bar to mount on the inside of the rear hatch glass.
Let me know what you guys think!

My original plan is to install a sequencer module to it, like the old mercurys

I build the entire housing out of half of a 2'x4' pecan sheet I got a Lowes for $25, and pieced it all together with windshield adhesive. Barbaric, I'm sure

I decided to go with the strip LEDs, because I got 15" on Amazon for $20, and figured it would be one of the easier, cheaper routs to it.

All wired up!

For convenience, and because I didn't know how else to aattach it. So I used double side tape. But here it is just after finishing it, before carpet.

And before I started to install everything, I used a heat gun to bend the housing to the curvature of the glass, sprayed it inside and out with black paint, and wrapped the outside with black carpet

And, of course, the night shot. Running lights

Brake lights (middle lights up for brakes and signals)

And the money shot

I'm afraid I only have a shot of the reverse light in the daytime

In total, I spent about $65 and roughly 2 weeks of planning and building.
And it turned out alright. I'm happy with it, but could probably go back and do a few things different.

Also! I'm adding my recent work on her as of lately, that I need to dump pics of.
3/3 drop on springs and blocks, changing to spindles with 1" springs and 3" drop leafs. (Which, if someone can point me to a place that has them for the 97 4dr 2wd, pleas point me there, I can only seem to find first gens. -_- ) on 205/65/15s. No can shots yet.
(Mine next to buddy's sticker)

As well as "Euro Style" clear headlights, that I popped open, and took the side markers out of, and have a typical led light thst I pick up at the parts store. With 5k 35w hids on lows, build relay harness for hi beam and low beam, quad beam mod.

Nice and bright, exposure value on my phone turned down -1.

Any ways thanks for looking! I know everyone likes picture! Haha

 

[deathphoenix99]

Great job on the reverse light, it looks pretty good overall. A lot of hard work went into that.

 

[KerbyG]

Hey thanks! It originally started as me just having something to stop the cops from harassing me about my tinted tail lights its been on about a week noe, and so far everything is still fine.

 

[vinster888]

I like everything you have done. It gives me some ideas for my own. Lookin' great!

 

[DaGuse5853Z]

I def like it! did you get the sequential function to work like you stated you wanted to? My buddy had an old merc cougar (68ish) that had sequential tails and thats when I fell in love with them.

 

[Noob17268]

I like the concept but not the design . its a bit large for my taste but i appreciate the hard work you put into it ! I thought about mounting my third brake light something like that on my truck and shaving the stock light . Id shave your factory lights now, i think that look better

 

[minitruck]

Very nice! Like it.
How about you disable your stock tail lights and only use these? I bet that would look even better...

 

[KerbyG]

You guys know me too well! Haha, shaving the stockers is indeed in the plans. I may also change up the design of how I have the LEDs laid out, I feel like the design of them has began to lose some of its aesthetic appeal (to me anyways). But still keeping the sequenride, just need to get the kit in, at which point, I just have to plug in the modulator for them to flash in sequence.
I will admit too that it is a bit large. It takes up a hair less than 3" of the bottom of the back blass, limitig the viewing area but just a little, but not enough to seriously bother anyone (at least, it doesn't bother me)

 

[deathphoenix99]

Don't completely delete your rear lights, you will lose the side markers and reflctors, which is illegal, and if you find the wrong cop, could cost you some money.

I'm not a fan of shaved lights, but it's your vehicle. Personally, I'd rock both lights.

 

[KerbyG]

Well, it is my daily, so I guess that really wouldn't be the best idea. I'll rock them.both until I figure something else out, and if I don't, then oh well

 

[DaGuse5853Z]

what kind of unit do you have to control the sequencing?

 

[KerbyG]

Its from WebElectricProducts
http://www.webelectricproducts.com/products.htm
They have kits for 2, 3, and 4 lamp set ups. Imngoing with the STS-1 for the 3 lamp set up

 

[98lowerednewproje]

Thats a neat idea. I have always liked the way cougars and mustangs had sequenced lights.

 

[MEP1]

I have always liked the way cougars and mustangs had sequenced lights.

I see a LOT of the new Mustangs with them, definitely looks cool.

 

[KerbyG]

Justs makes it stand out a lot more. Very elegant and clean. I was actually browsing around the web today and came across exLEDusa.com and they have his light diffuser film that seems to be what I'm looking for to help smooh out the LED hot spots.
http://www.exledusa.com/exled-light-spread-film-width-11.8-inch-height-39.37-inch.html
I've never heard of them, or seen this stuff. But hey have some pretty neat things on there.

 

[KerbyG]

So on Thanksgiving morning while I was at work (about 3am) some kids decided to smash up my Blazer

And after a bit of work, I got everything pretty much back to how it was. One of the worst parts was the fact that they didn't really take anything, they couldnt because of how I installed everything (not easy to remove ) but with the rear glass being shattered, I had to do some repair work on my light bar, and decided to pretty much re-design it. What do you guys think of 2.0?

 

[snowman46919]

I think some kids would catch an ass whoopin if that was my truck but I like 2.0 better.

 

[KerbyG]

Oh, if I catch who did it, I'll make sure they are never capable of doing anything like that again
And thanks!

 

[Slow_S10]

Looks awesome man. I'm a sucker for LED tail lights. I am already trying to figure out what I want to do with the tails on my first gen.

 

[98lowerednewproje]

Kinda reminds me of the new challenger.