Anyone know where i can find the led tail lights for the fc's i seen them in a few pic and videos and i think they look sick as hell. So anyone with info please let me know!!

 

Here's the baller way:

http://www.nengun.com/nagisa-auto/nams-led-tail-light

DIY:

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...56#post7736308

 

The baller way would be alright but they dont have anything for the fc as far as led taillights.

ill probly end up doin it the way ive been hearin about and just order everything and find what i need to do it. I want the LED tail lights i think they look sick

 

If its for the 1990-91 models. I'm going to buy 4" round led truck tail lights and install/ wire them some how this winter

 

If anyone's still wondering about this, a guy on the forums called Digi7ech makes complete LED tail lights for FCs through his company, AZRX7. Currently, he makes them for S5 tail lights only, but he's working on a set of S4s last I heard. He does everything himself though, so be warned that it may take him some time to deliver.

 

no one has ever made and sold them, because 10,000 FC owners will claim interest then maybe 10 over the course of a year will actually be willing to pay a fair price.

wishlist and needlist are 2 different things.

 

Okay man, I get it, you got some sort of grudge against FC owners. I've heard enough. Next time, just try searching first before saying anything else.

The product in question:



Where to buy: Mazda RX7 S5 led tail lights

Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AZRX7/

Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/azrx7/

Lights in action:


Posts on this forum of it: https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generati...ersion-994699/

Fellow forum member's build, including a set: https://www.rx7club.com/build-thread...build-1086192/

Do you still think it doesn't exist?

 

i remember seeing them years ago, i figured that was a dead project since i hadn't heard again of them until you posted the link.

 

Kind if expensive. I'll make my own.

 

You could get them in Ebay for 300bucks right now.

 

Once you make them on your own with quality parts and properly regulated you will know why they cost that much.

 

properly regulating them?

strange, i bought some LED enclosed trailer lights for my trailer for $20 each and they work fine and they have a little DOT stamp on them.. if you use the proper lumen LED for each section there should be no regulator necessary.

 

All LEDs need either voltage regulation or current regulation. Trailor lights are cheaply made and that is why you see so many tractor trailors with those round universal led lights with half of the LEDs broken.

Lumens have nothing to do with a circuit you should be looking at the Vf and current they run at.

 

i can certainly understand if you sell the kits you want them to be more bulletproof and quality, if you're building them yourself and know how to repair them then you don't necessarily need to spend hundreds on simple LEDs, boards and complex regulators.

for an FD its a little more likely, for an FC with 1/3 the blue book value i think a $550 set of modded lights is a pretty hard sell.

 

Some leds need the regulation like high power LEDs but true you can skip out on regulators for low power LEDs as long as the calculations are done correctly but I would rather open my taillights once then multiple times replacing single leds when they die .

The guy selling those led boards above is selling them for $365 and someone said that was too expensive. The thing is they don't know the leds alone are around $100. Those boards are costly to make and the labor time to solder everything. I think it is a pretty good deal.

I gave up on lighting products for the fc community because it is pretty much impossible to sell at the price point they want.

 

Not sure if you have followed Aaron Cakes build thread, but it's a good lesson on how to make these.

I was an Electronics Technician in the Navy for 6 years and have been a C#, VB, SQL, MVC, Java Script, programmer for 20 years so making these is kind of fun for me. Yes it's time consuming and will probably cost me a couple hundred bucks. The fun part is learning something new.

 

Considering the hours involved in making high quality circuit boards, assembling them all together and sealing them so they are reliable, a few hundred dollars isn't too bad.

Tail lights are a thing which should just work. For safety sake. Building with an eye of being able to repair them is worrisome because LEDs should last forever. If the boards are properly designed, flux removed, conformally sealed, they are permanent.

One thing to consider is that in most jurisdictions, one can't modify DOT approved lighting. Generally this puts one into the collector only insurance bracket.