ok so after a show last week i discovered that either my lighting is too basic being only one color or i just don't do it enough.

i have my underbody, foot wells, behind my fron seats, facing the sub box, on sides of it, and 2 more yet to place on top of the one in the grills and 2 in the engine bay. but my question is how much is too much? because i am in debate of putting an LED in each of my center vents and maybe one in each back cup holder. any CONSTRUCTIVE insight? (no giving me ish cuz i do lighting since i SHOW and not race on roads/tracks, ect... like most people who seem to hate lighting)

thanks,
-chris

 

Are you doing it just for shows, or because you like it???

I think you have a ton of lighting already

 

Just try to keep it one color, multiple colors look retarded, otherwise, it's pretty hard to have too much, unless it overpowers another visual feature of your ride.

I've been to way too many shows... and I've judged a few in my day.

 

i am doing both. i like the way it is, just trying to decide if it's too much

and yep its all once color ( i dont like the multiple color lighting like the million color stuff)

 

do so many that your care just looks like a floating ball of glowiness. haha. but in all seriousness...doooo it!

 

Um well you know what I think............. ..........do the doors and rear cups as well........but keep it clean.........I am gonna pick up a set of Oznium strobes as well for the wheel wells this summer and wire them in on a separate switch in the dash so at shows it gets a more active look than just lights on and glowing..........try the strobes......fairly inexpensive and work well.........

by the way Chris I am started on modding car number 2 now.......just bought a Yaris HB on Monday night..........

 

^^ dunno how u'll do it, im about broke from one car and will get worse with 2 shows almost every weekend now lol, all my led's strobe and pattern n what not ( i need to do the cup holders and what not. its too damn hard to hide tubes in a tc w/ all the weird angles and what not)

 

There is no such thing as too much lighting, I have LED's and cathodes everywhere, and it looks fine, because you cant see them when there off, and it just makes a great effect to go from nothin to a Light Show instantly

 

true true^^ i just can't figure out if i want to not be lazy and do the LED's int he back cup holders door panels, by the dor handles, the vents and run all of the wiring, as i hate taking stuff apart since it never seems to fit ack the way it should lol

i still gott a figure out a way to wire the 2 tubes im gonna put in the grill and the 2 stips in the engine back and wire to a switch and what not

 

Do it....... ............yeah two cars is gonna be a hard one to do........tC is pretty much there except for body kit,so it is not too bad

the Yaris is only two days old and my brain is screaming to make it no more stock.....LOL

 

*****update**** just went on there and bought 10 individual LED's, now i gotta figure out how to wire em

 

its not that hard to do, i wrote a DIY! In fact, this weekend i'm putting led's in the windows themselves

DIY: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...633&highlight=

 

How much would you actually use them though, for all that work? Most shows are in the daytime =/

 

I use my lights all the time! except for the grill cathodes. It's why i keep water bottles in my cup holders, so i can see the lights....

 

quite a few shows this year i've found are in midafternoon/night and shows like HIN, DUB, Slamology and what not are indoors at night as well

 

As long as it's done right and doesn't drown out anything than go for it. I'm going to be installing 30-4 chip pre-wired led's from Oznium and a strobe set-up in less than a month and it's all in my interior. I can't figure out what I want to do for the engine bay yet.

Any pics of what you have already?

 

i used the flex strips in the engine bay

 

other than white leds, what other colors do you guys think would go with a red tc? i am thinking about doing it, and a friend told me i should go red, but then my car will look like a something out of the red light district!! haha

 

blue might go well,but red would be ok as well

 

I dunno. My buddy has red in his and it looks weird, but maybe it's his red seats and dash that make it look funny. I don't know, but I hope it looks good in mine because I don't want to get it all put back together and it look like crap.