Lights behind the Gills on a C4?
10-29-2004, 01:19 PM
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Lights behind the Gills on a C4?
I remember a good while back there was discussion about putting LEDS behind the fender gills on the C4s. Ive been ondering doing this but Im curious how it should be done. The car is red, so obviously the lights would be red...where to purchase, how many, how to wire?
10-29-2004, 02:57 PM
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One of the guys in our club installed LEDs behind his gills and they came on with the parking lights. He just tapped into the parking light wires going to the front lights.
10-29-2004, 03:24 PM
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Well I guess that would be better than the neons along the rocker panels... 
I think a small neon behind the gills, giving a soft glow, would look better than LEDs. But then you don't want anything that will interfere with air flow out of the gills either.
You need to find out how much current your intended setup would draw. If more than a few hundred mA, get a relay, like used for the MAF or such, to power the lights. Fuse the power to the relay and switch the relay off the parking lights.
I think a small neon behind the gills, giving a soft glow, would look better than LEDs. But then you don't want anything that will interfere with air flow out of the gills either.
You need to find out how much current your intended setup would draw. If more than a few hundred mA, get a relay, like used for the MAF or such, to power the lights. Fuse the power to the relay and switch the relay off the parking lights.
10-29-2004, 06:09 PM
#14
Originally Posted by n1kki6
Im not talking about putting some massive 100 watt monster behind the gills that will light up the sides of the car....
Im talking a couple leds mounted to the louvre that would emit a nice subtle glow at night, activated by the fog lights of course.
I dont care if you all think its rice, I know what rice is, and this aint it.
Its not OBNOXIOUS, it doenst COPY ANOTHER VEHICLE, doesnt even HINT THAT MY CAR IS FAST....
10-29-2004, 07:14 PM
#16
Drifting
Originally Posted by Kale
Definately not rice. Where do you people get off calling this rice? 
It's ghetto not rice.
It's ghetto not rice.
10-29-2004, 07:23 PM
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Team Owner
Originally Posted by KnightmareVette
For the record Kale, it's not ghetto, it is rice. If the lights were installed and did not work, and people could see that they did not work, then THAT would be ghetto.
Rice is more like... if he put a ZR-1 badge on the car.
