LBC's Red LED Interior, footwells, all 4 cupholders, storage bin.

[LongBeachCoupe]

Ok yesterday i left work and drove to SurmanM's house to install some LED's ive been lazy about... Surman was very skilled and from doing this one install together, i am confident in popping off panels and taking stuff apart.

The only issue we had was getting a wire thru the firewall, the grommet was really far back in the engine compartment, and we used a hangar stretched out to shove it thru.

I have 4 red led bars (same as doc feelgood), 2 under each footrest.5 Oznium red Superflux leds. (1 in each of the 4 cupholders, and one in the front storage compartment.) http://www.oznium.com/prewired-superflux

All hooked up to a round rocker switch with LED that i installed into an empty slot next to the trunk pop. http://www.oznium.com/rocker-switch

All wired straight to the battery, with an inline fuse. The wires are hot (the lights can be turned on when the car is off)...

I hope you guys like them, and i am truly sorry i didnt bring my camera to take pics of the install, all i have is one stupid cell pic, but its a pisser!

[mcheddadi]

hot! you are brave. I would piss my pants having to remove panels everywhere lol

[LongBeachCoupe]

Getting the center console to fit back in was a little bit annoying, the ebrake needs to be up, and then it makes you tilt the console at a weird angle to wedge it back in... and then it wouldnt push up close enought to the front where its supposed to sit.

Behind the storage bin, on both sides of the console there are these 2 "plug" type of things on each side that need to be lined up or else it doesnt fit... It took us a a bit to figure out why it wouldnt go back into place, but we got it...

Theres only like 4 screws holding in the whole center console for the most part.

Also, the bolts in the back of the console, where the people in the back's feet would be, the console has 1 bolt on each side, but they were both missing already before we started the install!

[BlackNWhite]

Nice install, looks good.

Maybe I could get Rob to help me do this to my car when he installs my kickplates.

But LBC man... I'm speechless. Are you serious? Are you actually wearing CROCS?

[BlackNWhite]

Oh wow, you even have them in the back cupholders. That's nice. As soon as you turn on the car... do they turn on? Or only when your headlights are on?

[quick_shift]

Looks awesome, very clean...very bright, lol. So when should we expect the full write up on this?

[quick_shift]

Oh wow, you even have them in the back cupholders. That's nice. As soon as you turn on the car... do they turn on? Or only when your headlights are on?

He said he has them hooked directly to the battery with a switch, so he uses the switch to turn them on and off. If he left the switch on they would stay on even after he turns the car off.

[BlackNWhite]

He said he has them hooked directly to the battery with a switch, so he uses the switch to turn them on and off. If he left the switch on they would stay on even after he turns the car off.

Whoops, missed that part.

I was too busy looking at the pictures.

[surmanm]

nice pics brian told u we would knock this out in two hours(ye right ) .. we hocked up the positive from the battery to the switch, the negative from switch to ground on the car and connected the positive and negative from the switch to all the rest of the wires from the leds in parallel under the center council

[SniperJoe]

Nice job!

[adidas2go]

Brian, who wear crocks, seriously

[vballer22]

But LBC man... I'm speechless. Are you serious? Are you actually wearing CROCS?

Lol

[kuhan]

Very nice...they are freaking bright!!!People probably think your car is on fire at night

Quote » 5 Oznium red Superflux leds. (1 in each of the 4 cupholders, and one in the front storage compartment.) http://www.oznium.com/prewired-superflux [/quote]How did you run power to those cupholders? Was it a pain an *** to get power to them? I want to get blue led one for that area.
Modified by kuhan at 11:10 AM 7/5/2008

[mikegtr06]

love it,its bright as heck though i want to do blue in mine, well not to that extent though.

how much did you pay for all those lights ?

[rjdmmfl1]

did you reeally put this on an open public forum????
Modified by rjdmmfl1 at 3:05 PM 7/5/2008

[LongBeachCoupe]

WOW... Mike Surman, you need to use a little more discretion when your posting stuff about ME on the net.. NOT COOL!

It was so hot when we did this install, and i didnt have a camera, so theres no good pictures to do a writeup...

In all seriousness, with the FSM i could draw it out, but its much simpler than all of you are expecting, the thing you need to know how to do is electrical wiring, and getting a wire thru the firewall (forget about a pic of that, i could barely get my hand close enough with the hangar)..

Thats a quick sketch of the wiring... I used speaker cable as my power wires so it was already a ground and power attached to make it simpler. All the wires are grounded to the same ground the whole dash uses under the left side of the dash above the fuses.

We ran the power thru the firewall grommet, to a switch... to get the oznium switch to work right you connect constant power to one of the hot lines, all your hot wires from leds to the other, and the ground to the third.

TIP: The oznium round rocker switch... looks AWESOME... but you need to trim it a tiny bit, there is a clip on top and bottom to secure it once it is pushed thru, but on the side there is a raised ridge, you need to dremel that to be smooth or the switch is wider than the little blank areas we have.

The Rear cupholders just pull straight up and out (i snapped a tab on one but it doesnt matter, theres like 6)

We snaked the wires down the panel (without taking off the rear panel around the cupholder) down to the tube by the kickplate area, and then under the dash back to our "power station" under the radio's stroage box.

Theres actually a nice area to have your wires gathered under there.

The center console is a bit difficult to take out and get back in but SurmanM nor i had taken it out before and it took us 5 min to figure it out. Putting it back in and getting it over the ebrake took some logical thinking (getting a couch thru a door)

I put an led in the storage container because i had an extra one, im glad i did... in retrospect i would have put a white superflux in the center console container under your elbow.

We will be doing a similar install on SurmanM's car once he can sell his barbie collection on ebay to get some cash for the LEDS.

As far as cost is concerned, i went a little nuts on wire connectors, but the 4 bars in front were $30, and the superflux were $4 each... so total of $50 in leds (its amazing that replacing the factory leds cost me that same amount, damn festoon bulbs). All in with wire, you can do this for less than $75.

Also, the difficult part is getting started, once you have the battery disconnected, your dremel out and ready, wiring handy etc... It goes quick... I didnt think the front of the car was going to be lit up as much as it is, but its really wild and i dig it.

Also, Crocs rule. I dont wear them because they are cool, or because it gets me "hot chicks" like a pair of "Adidas" can lol... They are more comfortable than anything else, thats just the bottom line.

PS. Yes this banker wears Crocs to work!

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

nice i like it i guess ill c it on sat at d n b i used to have blue ones in my last car.....dont feel like doin it to this thing

[LongBeachCoupe]

bc you dont like the look or dont feel like doing/paying for the install?

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

i like the look just dont like it on my car again....i feel its pointless unless u use it alot ie shows and stuff idk i feel its like my dumb strobes just sorta pointless unless used lol

[rjdmmfl1]

i like the look just dont like it on my car again....i feel its pointless unless u use it alot ie shows and stuff idk i feel its like my dumb strobes just sorta pointless unless used lol

i know folks clowned you because f the strobes, but I like them... on my last car, it was a way for me draw attention to my car.. I used to leave them on when I went into the resaraunt at night... I would cometimes come out to a crowd staring at my whip... ... I may be getting old, but I still like the idea, just not into drawing unneeded attention to my whip anymore

Brian, you should be careful driving around at night with those things on... there's plenty of Pirus in New York also... not that anyone would mistake you for a Damu!!!

[LongBeachCoupe]

Brian, you should be careful driving around at night with those things on... there's plenty of Pirus in New York also... not that anyone would mistake you for a Damu!!!

Pirus? Damu? I googled em... idk man im not too scared... BTW anyone realize the "back of the knee" pocket is perfectly sized for a rambo size survival knife? lol

[Scandinavian Flick]

it would be the perfect spot for a rambo sized survival knife, i completely forgot about that pocket........ does anyone actuallyuse that pocket?

[Marisha]

once in a while...when i remember i've got it, lol

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

i got the knife in the hidden compartment thing in the center console....n the louisville slugger in the backseat lol but ive used that poket for my cell charger

[stsxcrle]

Holy Red!!!!!!! Looks sweet, now you really need to get the nightrider strobe thing on the grille, that'd be sick.

[rjdmmfl1]

Pirus? Damu? I googled em... idk man im not too scared... BTW anyone realize the "back of the knee" pocket is perfectly sized for a rambo size survival knife? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJbDvAMORr8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...lated

Again, they're not banging as hard in NY so I guess you're good... but don't expect me to do that to my ride out here in Cali and ride around at night... .... don't get it twisted folks, Cali is still active!
Modified by rjdmmfl1 at 9:01 PM 7/8/2008

[LongBeachCoupe]

i dont understand why they cover their faces, just doesnt make sense unless they are showing guns... but on the internet? i think ive seen my girlfriends neighbors kids making videos like this lol...

I can just imagine some gang bangers gathered around a computer editing video to put up on youtube lol... seems like it could be a good chris rock skit...

On a serious note, i dont want beef with anybody... increase the peace!

[stsxcrle]

Craziness.

[dangeris]

Brian, nice install. Looks like a biohazard zone!

BTW,....nice crocks

[Italianbulldog85]

yo LBC do you have a pic of the switch? I want to see how clean it looks.