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Old Sep 9, 2006 | 06:44 PM
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Just a bunch who were bored on a Friday night, haha.

I just finally started modding, thanks to my friend Law who has the lovely SW
and has been working on his car non-stop, motivating me to start.

I'm low on cash and decided to go all lights right now.

Replaced all my bulbs and my dome lights with LED's, etc etc.

My friend works at Chuck E Cheese so he can get LED's for free from
the backroom where the store all the lights for the games, so I'm pretty
lucky haha.

Well anyways, we are a group of friends who got our tC's within a month
all together for graduation, birthday presents, etc etc. We are starting up
a small friendly club too. I'll give some info later. We had quite a few LED's
and wedge bulbs left over, so Law and I decided to do a mini meet at his house
and hook everyone up with parking lights... hope you like.

Mine are the green ones by the way.

I'm going with a green, black, and gold theme. This month, I'll be on a
S-Tech drop with my rims colour matched to the Tein green.

Cars in order...
-Super White (Blue)
-BSP (Green)
-BCP (Purple/Pink)
-BSP (Red)
-FM (Hyper or Platinum White, I forgot haha)



























Old Sep 9, 2006 | 06:55 PM
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You need to cover that ugly amber reflector up! I have blue accent lights in my headlights and when the amber corner light is not as noticable it looks alot better. I just have a vinyal overlay over the top of it!
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 06:57 PM
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Haha.

I was searching the forums about that just right now!

Thanks for the input.
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 07:03 PM
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You could probably make them yourself but I got mine pre-cut off ebay for like $10 maybe. It is still legal and looks alot better. I wish I could just take that reflector out of there but I do not know how diffuclt that would be and I wanted to stay legal so the overlay works for me!
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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nice ... im thinking of doing this also ... with white LED's though
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 09:10 PM
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hahaha.
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 09:26 PM
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sweet. Im going to start work at Chucky cheese's soon how do u get the LEDs just take them?
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 10:16 PM
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someone needs a longer shutter speed
Old Sep 9, 2006 | 10:54 PM
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wow thats a bunch of stock tC's there but neat pics..
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 12:17 AM
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ok stupid question, but did you make the LED's or can you buy them for the parking lights.. i did bulbs for my parkinglights and turnsignals but they dont look as good as yours... can someone point me in the right direction for replacing these with LED's???
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 12:48 AM
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i just ordered these http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWN%3AIT , i had these same bulbs in my headlights on my old ninja sportbike and they did an awesome job. i'll post pics once i get them and put them in.
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 12:53 AM
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Originally Posted by ganske03
You need to cover that ugly amber reflector up! I have blue accent lights in my headlights and when the amber corner light is not as noticable it looks alot better. I just have a vinyal overlay over the top of it!
am i the only one that likes the abmer?
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 03:17 AM
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what kidna bulbs are the purple/maroon ones?
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 06:05 AM
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Scion...spagenameZWDVW

This is exactly the seller I got mine from and I get alot of looks with the blue. Awesome mod for the money!
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Reese
wow thats a bunch of stock tC's there but neat pics..
Actually, the SW is nicely modded.

He has black... forgot what brand 18's, TRD exhaust, TRD intake, TRD grounding kit,
TRD springs, full LED swap, and I forgot the rest of his mods. I believe he
put in an order for the APR CF wind splitter this weekend.

All of us JUST got our tC's...
but hey, we're proud of our cars and we love them.

Can't wait to throw on my S-Techs, Fujita F5 intake, and colour match my
rims the Tein green this month. Excittttted for my first big mods.

But I heard, once you mod - you can't stop.

I need a better paying job, haha.
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 10:04 PM
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thats cool
Old Sep 10, 2006 | 11:37 PM
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looking good!
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 02:45 PM
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wow, that BCP is nice. gave me a nice idea.
does ur friend work at the chuck e cheese in mo val on sunnymead? lol, can i pick up the leds for $10, and since im new to this and have no idea how to install, wanna u guys can do it for me

now doesnt that jus sound great
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 02:46 PM
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niceeee colors.
Old Sep 11, 2006 | 02:48 PM
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twist the parking light bulb, pull out the old bulb, put in the new led bulb, twist the socket back into place.

not that hard :-/



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