mazda7

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Thought I'd throw out this idea and see what you guys think. I see a lot of people on the forum trying to get the jdm ftp lights or make their own. Saturday at my dad's shop I took a ftp lens off one of my parts cars as well as one of the side marker light bulbs and socket. I simply drilled the appropriate sized hole in the back of the lens and inserted the light. Hook this up to parking lights or a switch and your set. The only thing I found wrong though is that the intensity of the bulb wasn't diffused very much. I thought about adding some type of mirrored material to the back of the lens to try and help.

Give me some feed back on this one.


"No Rotor, No Motor."

My 7 is 15 yrs and counting pushing 269,000 on the chasis. 160k on the engine.

1FastT2

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That sounds like a pretty good idea I'll have to try it on one of my extra ones lying around.

Xentrix

Yeah, that sounds cool, it would be better than just wiring the headlights to turn on when down.. hmm I took out my foglights but the wiring is still there, I could use that, is there a way to wire the fogs to turn on without having the headlights on?

AE Turbo

This may sound cheezy, but try come aluminum foil behind the FTP. It worked for me. :p

Xentrix

aluminum foil???

do you have any pictures????

mazda7

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XENTRIX, no pictures yet. I will try and take some this weekend. I thought about the foil tape idea also. As for the fog lights, mine is an 87 and didn't have factory fogs, so I'm not sure how you'd wire them up. I would just wire them to parking lights or maybe the same as a set of aftermarket fogs.

Btw, anyone have any detailed pictures of the jdm ftp's? I'd like to see how they are constructed.

Icemark

The other thing I was thinking was using one of those White LED 194 bulb replacements, as they have a built in defuser.

HWO

the lights directly below the headlight is the park light, all cars in NZ (being japanese in origin) have them with bulbs and they are called PARK LIGHTS, you turn them on in low visability times or when you are parked on the side of a busy road temporarily. IE: its really dull and overcast or its raining a lot or its a bit foggy.

the ORANGE lens under this light is the FTP light as you yankees call it they toggle on and off to indicate you will be turning left or right at an intersection etc.

[bnd]

we call the orange lights turn signals. there's a reason why we call the clear lenses FTP lenses. when we want grandma to move to the other lane we toggle the brights on and off. of course up here in canada you're just flashing the lights in vain. down in the states, washington state anyway, the drivers move over when they see you coming. before you even have a chance to flick the switch.

there's nothing worse than two cars going the exact same speed side by side. it's even worse when they're both talking on cell phones. what are they talking to one another?

Josepi

The ol mexican roadblock.

Worse than that. Say your driving 80 down a highway (2 lanes each side). Your passing cars doing 60. A lane is merging from the right. The lady merging crosses the slow lane gets into the fast lane and proceeds to do 55. Slow lane (doing 60) catches up, and your stuck behind an idiot bitch in a SUV going slower than traffic in the fast lane.

Yes this happened yesterday

tommytsunami

Kick me back!

I was thinking of using StreetGlow's Red "Non Strobe" lights that they advertise to put on your headlight housing. My concerns were heat, and if the red bulb color would be transmitted during normal FTP signaling. Naturally I would hook this up to a static on off switch.

The best config would be a three way configuration. Off/On/Strobe in addition to normal FTP. Then you would have all sorts Disco FX (hahahahaha)

TJ