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Swirling Rear Tail Lights When Applying The Brake

07xtc

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Ok so a long time ago I knew a bloke that had a fairly beaten up R33 coupe that used to drift. His car came from japan with a set of cool rear tail lights that when you apply the brakes instead of just lighting up the brake light it used to swirl in circles. It looked pretty trippy.

Anyways I have an RX7 S4 and I want to do the same sort of effect into my S5 tail lights which are the same dimentions as the R3 tail lights. My car is completely custom so this will add the finishing touches. I know its a bit ricey....but the car its self is going to be built very Race spec with very little rice. I just think it would look cool thats all.

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never heard of them or seen em! sounds like a custom job to me, cops will love you if its a street car too

if you get em or find em, post up some pics(?) ha a video would be better.

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JayCar has bulbs which falsh for the rear lights, but it is ilegal..

All new cars in Europe, have these. What happens is as you apply the brake the light turns on and stays solid for 5 seconds, after that, it starts to blinkg to warnt the guy behind you. UNLESS you jab the brakes, then they go straight to blinking. All the mercs, bmws and allike have these. The Fordt GT40 and allike have it too.

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hey yeah, ive seen these, but the back of the light was chrome, and looked like it had a heap of little bulbs in it to make it look swirly.. i think i seen some on ebay as well. have a look

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hey, im not sure if these one swirl hey.. ive only ever seen them once. the closest ive seen in a while are the ones on ebay :unsure:.. try www.nengun.com and see if they can order any since they deliver everything from japan :)

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