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Here are few pictures of my recently completed front corner marker build for my C5. I had made sequential turn and tail lights for my car a few months ago and now I needed the front to match. I started with a new set of housings and hacked them apart to allow me to insert custom made LED strips and DRL elements. The entire setup is once again controlled by a GHOZT lighting brand LED sequencer. As in the back of my car significant rewiring of the car's stock harness was required to pull this off. In total I spent about 90-100 hours on the project but I am quite pleased with the result. First a few pics, then a video.
there are 11 wires to each corner and 5 or 7 to the controller....lots of wires for sure, the stock wiring needed quite a bit of modification since all c5's use the same three wires for drl/turn/park so in order to get away from the one size fits all amber light for everything that gm used 20 years ago I pretty much had to start over. None of the stock front harness is used, just empty sockets on my car used to plug the holes in the lights .
sorry, there is zero chance of that. Not only were the lights themselves a ton of work to make, but they are nowhere near a plug and play application...as they would probably need to be in order to be marketable. I had to remove most of my interior, the console, the airbag and steering wheel, and the instrument cluster to complete the necessary wiring. There is just no way that somebody else is going to be willing to do all that, or if they are then they would likely just build a set themselves. Thanks for the interest though.
it is....I used a cob strip, and I also had to use a limiting device for the voltage to keep it at 11.7vdc which turns out to be the perfect voltage for good brightness along with long life by keeping it cool. Our cars regularly exceed 14.2 vdc at speeds above idle and the led strips just don't survive long at that voltage, especially when it is crammed in a sealed housing with out much chance of convection or air flow cooling it off. I found some adjustable voltage regulators on Amazon that work great. Anything from 12 to 24 vdc input gives me a perfect 11.7 vdc out to the lights.
there are 11 wires to each corner and 5 or 7 to the controller....lots of wires for sure, the stock wiring needed quite a bit of modification since all c5's use the same three wires for drl/turn/park so in order to get away from the one size fits all amber light for everything that gm used 20 years ago I pretty much had to start over. None of the stock front harness is used, just empty sockets on my car used to plug the holes in the lights .
You could have gotten a separate DRL function by piggybacking off of the DRL relay. Keep most of the stock wiring except for two additional wires from inside the car.
You could have gotten a separate DRL function by piggybacking off of the DRL relay. Keep most of the stock wiring except for two additional wires from inside the car.
Wow, you make it sound so simple, I assure you it is not.
10-09-2017, 02:42 PM
C5 Led sequential front turn signal build
