tails look good but i'm not a fan of the brake light being the turn signal.

 

the inner red light isn't a brake light.. depending on the market (non-USDM) it's actually the rear fog lamp. It's technically a marker light since it only comes on when the car's headlamps or DRL's are active. Press the brake pedal sometime and watch the back lamp.. the inner one doesn't get any brighter.

You could have just rewired your taillamp so the amber bulb was also wired to the inner one and just disconnect it's original wiring... would have been much easier. If you wanted you could have even changed out the amber bulb for a white one and gave yourself a bigger and brighter backup lamp by wiring it with the backup lamp instead. Loads you could really do without affecting the legality of it for some different and cool effects.

 

was more of a practical mod than for looks, but still, i like the result
thanks for you input

 

Looks very cool man nice post! BTW your profile picture is sick!

 

thats pretty cool, wish i had the time to do it myself....

 

I'm really liking those painted tail lights, you did a great job!

 

awesome

 

I wonder if we could use Snoopy's idea of using the OEM flasher's wiring to make the red light the flasher, but I think it' wouldn't be on when not flashing, needs a constant ON, unlike the flasher.

But I personally love the look of the inner red light flashing. The LED bulb for the rear flashers aren't visible from a distance in the day light.

 

to keep it always on when not flashing, relay is the only way i could think of....

when i did some test, i wired the flasher wiring straight to the inner light and it worked and was easy to do... but didnt look so good without the inner light on

 

+1 for originality. I love this type of stuff

 

Good stuff, props for originality.

 

after testing in full sunny daylight... its more more visible than amber flasher...

and you cant really notice the noise of the relay while driving... just ear it a bit at stop light like stock flasher relay

 

Buy a dual filiment pig tail (current one is single), wire small filiment to 12v constant, wire large filiment to turn signal. Use quieter cutoff relay to shut off small filiment when large filiment recieves 12v. Done.

 

good idea

 

tails looking good...awesome job!

 

Sick, love the look of it as well

 

added a second backup light:

my oem flasher bulb were not used since i did this mod with flasher...
so i decided to rewire the oem flasher to the backup light
and installed some white leds bulb to have two backup lights

leds are pretty weak so this should help with visibility a bit as this bulb is much bigger
will try it next spring as the car is stored
next project : headlights

and just a side note about the flasher mod with relay...

you need to leave your car always on headlight ON or Daylight ON
or else your flasher wont work...
its not a big problem for me didnt use AUTO anyways
and when i drive at night i just turn the headlight on... thats it