Red Eyes!

[WagonMafia]

This is just an idea. I dont know if anyone has ever seen ledmod.com's color changing gauges faces for a celica gts when it hits lift, but what if I could figure out a way to incorporate that wiring into the headlights.Say you buy two stock headlights and figure out a mount 4-8 super bright led's into them, and using the same wiring setup they use for the gauges. So when your driving and you hit lift your normal headlights turn off, and the led's shine red. Let me know what you guys think.

[northvibe]

a microcontroller would be needed for this. I can think of maybe two options, one being more feasible. The rpm's would need to go into the microcontroller and when you hit a certain rpm range 6.5k+ the microcontroller would turn on the leds. Or if the ecu knows when the car is in lift, that wire would need to go to the MC to decode and turn the leds on when told... sounds cool but would be a project

[ajflan]

That would be interesting, but the last thing you need is to lose your headlights at night when you accelerate hard. Neat idea, but I say leave it for the gauges.

[jwalcik]

Quote, originally posted by ajflan »That would be interesting, but the last thing you need is to lose your headlights at night when you accelerate hard. Neat idea, but I say leave it for the gauges.It's also illegal in some (most?) states to have forward-facing red lights. They're generally reserved for emergency vehicles. It could look cool, but it might be good to use a color other than red.

[zionzr2]

Quote, originally posted by jwalcik »It's also illegal in some (most?) states to have forward-facing red lights. They're generally reserved for emergency vehicles. It could look cool, but it might be good to use a color other than red.Blue would also be a poor choise for the same reason above:

[Sublimewind]

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »Blue would also be a poor choice for the same reason above:Not to mention the "rice" factor...

[WaveAction]

+1 on the rice and legal factors. but the actual gauge changing when you hit the redline or whatever would be cool

[northvibe]

some vw guy did his gauges like that you guys seen that?

[DA1ANDONLY]

i do not like that idea at all...thats just me..i saw the gauge thing and that is way better..sorry ricer boy haha jk

[Kamikaze]

If you can turn it on/off pretty easily, so that when you're on public streets you don't use it... I think the red idea is pretty cool... biggest thing you would need to make sure is that you do not have any red lens (even just the bulbs) facing fwd, even if they are not on it's still illegal.I think it would be cool when at the dragstip, or autocross.

[Whelan]

So when you go faster with hitting lift you want your lights to turn off and go red so you can't see where your going at 80+???