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Old Mar 1, 2004 | 06:42 AM
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Here is a couple pictures of the Evo-R Z4 LED installed on my Z

They look great.
I love them!





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Old Mar 1, 2004 | 06:47 AM
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Here is a couple pictures I took, while installing them, to help others.

I wired hot wire (red wire from LED lights) to my blinkers.
(you can wire them into blinkers, or parking lights. I decieded to run mine to the blinkers, as I have no front bumper blinkers (vertex front bumper)
Here is a picture of the passenger side


The ground (black wire from LED lights) to this ground location


Pulling back the inner fenderwall, and running the wires, I put them in this clip here


and ran them down like so


* note, the red/white and green and white are just wires I used to extend the LED light wires.

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Old Mar 1, 2004 | 08:37 AM
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did you smoke yours? or just the picture. I saw another members in person, they look great, but his was whiter.
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Old Mar 1, 2004 | 09:16 AM
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is the intensity of the light pretty consitent throughout or is it much dimmer at the bottom away from the leds? thanks...I think im going to go with the amber as well Im just having trouble deciding b.c. im going to be clearing the headlights and wasnt sure which sidemarkers i wanted to get, didnt kno if i should go for the all clear look or stick to oem amber =/
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Old Mar 1, 2004 | 11:51 AM
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They are clear/white, just the picture I guess that made them look darker


Originally posted by kamikaZ
is the intensity of the light pretty consitent throughout or is it much dimmer at the bottom away from the leds? /
The bottom is alittle dimmer then the top, where the 2 LED's are

The last picture with them on, shows pretty much how they are...
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Old Mar 2, 2004 | 08:55 AM
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It looks pretty dim in those last 2 pics compared to the pics Andy released before
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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 09:38 AM
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Thanks ACP for posting those pictures, they look great!

silverstoneTT, to answer your question regarding how bright these Z4 LED are, basically different color LED that we use has different light output. For instance on our Front Concept LED the outputs are; White 10000 MCD, Blue 10000 MCD, and Amber 4500 MCD. I need to find out how many "MCD" are the LEDs on our Z4. Also, how bright the the backgorund is when the picture is taken also affects the look. The Z4 picture in my signature is taken in a pretty dark room so it may seem brighter than the others.
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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 12:12 PM
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hard pressed to find an amber LED in that style over 4500. thats about as bright as they get. maybe 5500.

blue is probably the brightest of all the colors that an LED can be(green is up there too), white is just blue with a phosphor material over it, as the blue passes through the phosphor it adds yellowish, just like old ladies use blue die in their hair to make it white, same thing reversed.
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Old Mar 3, 2004 | 06:31 PM
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ACP or anyone really, the ground spot doesnt have a tap in to another cable? I was under the impression that the parking light or turn signal was both a power and ground cable together...

So did you just tighten the black cable under a bolt on the car?
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Old Mar 4, 2004 | 06:03 PM
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Exclamation Reason for SMOKED Look !!!

Just found out that the reason for the Z4 to look "smoked" is because we use "black" foam double sided tape instead of "clear" tape on our prototype. The reflection of the black foam onto the lense will make it look smoked, which looks very cool and will not affect the LED output.
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Old Mar 4, 2004 | 06:49 PM
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Here is a picture of Evo-R's Front Concept LED and Z4 LED on a JDM Z33 in Japan.
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Old Mar 4, 2004 | 07:09 PM
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chassis is grounded to the battery, and all metal parts run to the frame for the most part. so any bolt into metal is grounded.
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