Hmmm I didn't know they emitted a high EMF, although there's alot of seperation where the reflector is placed the noise might migrate into the inteior lighting circuit, which might not be a good thing! It is close to the Remote door lock and TPMS/FOB receiver though...

Tim

 

Looks good guys!

 

We are doing a lot of the same mods. Looking good.

Paul G.

 

I've come up with what I think works the best for the door reflectors.The 9 led strip design lights up the whole reflector more than the 6 individualy wired leds.Its also a much cleaner looking setup.If you look hard you can barely see the strip inside the reflector but same goes for the individual leds.The 9 led unit is the one I plan on producing and selling.Here are some comparison pics.



The final kit will have connectors as shown to unplug the reflectors for removal of the doorpanel. I'm also working on instructions for the wiring routing etc. Next unit I'm going to use 22 guage wiring not the 20 guage used in these units.What do you all think?? Send me your reflectors or I have new ones also.

 

Wiring routing is fun but not all that difficult depending on where you want to tap into for power. The easiest place would probably be a piggyback on the footwell lights.

 

I wired them into the footwell lights.Took the doorpanels off and fished the wires through the rubber door boot. Theres a square panel with awire harness coming through that you can just snap out by the kickpanel.They even left a little v at the top for the wires!
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NOw to get the wires through the door jamb.


This the panel above the kickpanel that you can just pop out.
Thats it!

Here is where you tap into the footwell lighting. Red to orange and black to black.PUll the hush panel down and you cant miss it~

 

I got to get me a set of these. Nice job and very well produced.
One more thought: Can I get some LEDs put on the radio antennea?
You would have to allow fo the antennea to go up and down and I don't want to see any wires. Pictures welcome

 

Nice!! why didn't chevy do this?,,

 

Yes you can.Here is a quick prototype. Am working on slotting the antennea base and hiding the wires in the steering wheel. No one will look for them there! I know you are going with blue so I thought I'de give you a preview of blue. I still think you should put blue leds in your new bathrooms!!


I'll have a kit out next week to light up the valve stems!!

 

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Yes you could. It would be the first thing you will notice when opening the door.You should try it#@$!!

 

 

Hi Folks -

I posted in this thread earlier that I wanted to try this mod.

Tom pm'd me and asked if I wanted help, and told me that he would do the work on my reflectors if I sent them to him.

Of course I said yes, and immediately sent the reflectors out of my wifes 99 coupe to Tom.

I sent the reflectors to Tom right before I left for Vegas for a week.

I received the reflectors back a couple of days after I returned from my 6 day trip to Sin City! That was FAST!

I finally installed the reflectors in the car last night and this evening, taking pictures along the way, and using Tom's instructions here in this thread.

Here is a link to a dump of the pictures I took when doing the job.

http://www.iammoon.com/c5tech/led__door_reflectors

The wiring is clean, and the connector looks like an OEM piece.

The install went very well - I chose to run the wires behind the sound insulator rubber - it peels away and there is black goo that seals it to the door frame. The black goo is reusable, still pliant on our 99 coupe.

I also snipped enough of the factory tape away from the inner door grommet so that I could run the wire through it alongside the factory harness. I found that the back-side of the grommet/boot has a u-shaped slot in it to allow a wire to pass through.

Tom - Do you have any pictures of how you tapped into the footwell lights? I am having trouble getting the footwell light fixture out of the holder so that I can work with it.

Thank you so much for doing our reflectors! Maggie is excited to see them in action.

best regards -

mqqn

 

HI Folks -

Got my reflectors wired up and working - wow - thanks to Tom (nascar57) for doing the led conversion for me!!

Here are pics -







best regards -

mqqn

 

Great to see you got them done Andy. The pics really do show them off! My brother from tennessee,notnuts16,is here this weekend and he brought his reflectors.We wired him up a set to take back home with him.Always great to see ones products out there in use Thanks for posting .Best of luck Andy!
Tom

 

Hi Tom -

I was dragging my feet a little on the soldering, but using the new iron I bought it went very slick!

I will get some better pics - with the car all cleaned up in a nice location to show off the reflectors.

Keep in touch about the web page - I will be ready!

best regards -

mqqn

 

Nascar57,

Got your LED reflector kit after pm'ing you and paypal'ing for it.

It went in easily. Looks great. I'll post pics soon.

There is one last picture missing from the install pics above though. The very last one should show the footwell light and point out to solder/splice into the orange to red and black to black. Simple to figure out but for someone not in there before it completes the "picture"

Great kit, just the right amount of wire. LED strip looks straight and seamless in the install.

minitech


One more thing to help others: I found out a nice tool for pulling the wire through the door areas and others later; a tyne from a metal rake for leaves. About 9 inches long, stiff, not breakable. (Apologies to those who read this and don't know what a metal leaf rake is and why we use one in the north!)

 

Glad to see the install went smoothly Mike. I cant wait to see the pics.I'll try and find a pic of the factory footwell lights and wiring to complete the pics. A rake?? Oh yeah, thats one of those manual labor devices I try and avoid but not with success! Thanks for posting!

 

This is one pic of the install. Like many of the interior things it looks much better in person. Great little kit to install it too!

 

Finally got my modified reflectors in today and pictures just don't do them justice. Here are some of my crappy photos. Thanks to nascar57(TOM) for the mods. Easy install and looks factory. Thanks again.

 

Looks better without the flash! Your blue door switches show up pretty well!I got a bunch of supplies in so I'm building more kits this weekend! Thanks for posting the pics. Tom