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stock tail lights are def do-able as there's a guy in japan (yahoo auctions again) that sells nismo-lookalikes, basically stockies with leds inserted into them.

Having said that, I've just recently taken a look myself when I was replacing mine with the eastbear copies .. and the lens is glued on there with some sort of silicone + clips all around, so it'd be a bitch to remove. But maybe with some patience and a spare set to fall back to ..why not try. But then you still have to do the whole leds thing....arrrg. Might be cheaper just to sell the stockies and buy the ones from japan which came to about $600 delivered iirc.

But honestly ..the eastbear copies on ebay.com.au look tops too. I just painted my blinkers orange (as I don't like clear plastics) ..at first I wasn't so fond of the bling but it's grown on me and I could never go back.

Bit more difficult for me - I have an R34 sedan - I don't have many options for LED other than custom or stuff on Yahoo Auctions (which was sitting $700-900 + shipping .. youch)

*sigh* .. What a pain.

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The boot light I'd do the wiring and send on in plug n play form, I've got my car to do the test fitting on, so it's no problem just sending on a ready to go item :)

With indicators I've been using 3W Cree LEDs I actually found some decent ones, TrinGT has got them in his car as well...I'll try and get a video of them in action and put it up.

I just ordered a few of those boot light ones for the hell of it, I'll have enough to do 5 cars in a couple of weeks, I got a load of the reverse ones as well, enough to do 3 cars normally or 2 cars with a red and a white.

*actually after just looking it may use 4 of the stirps in there as I can fit in a board of up to 160mm long* So the LED display would be 20 x 2 LEDs anyways I'll build one and take a pic of it, may work out to be ~$35 with the extra board*

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Dan, what are the prices you gonna be doing them for?interested in boot lid brake light & reverse ones :rofl:

Prices are -

Bootlid brake light inserts - $25

Reverse LED insert (Red or White) - $30 each

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Dan does this mean i can order now? if so can you PM me and ill make the payments for 2 sets of each [4 reverse in total 2 boot lights]

also Icy there is porn at the end of your link lol not talking about a awesome car or anything. actual japanese porn

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yeah, he's taking the stock tail lights apart and putting LEDs in. Looks like you need a heatgun to separate the lenses which would confirm what I saw when i took mine apart recently ..the lenses are glued on real hard with some type of silicone.

Too much of a hassle to be honest ...just get the eastbear copies off ebay ($330 or so) if you want LED tail lights. I got those and just painted the blinker to amber as I hate the clear plastic crap on any tail lights

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I didn't realise how interesting this would all be, speaking to my supplier they can even totally reverse engineer a whole light for me and get the thing tooled and copied.

I was tempted to get these made, but not sure how popular they are with the 35 GTR crowd

http://gt-rr.com/gt-r/r35/nissan_japan/par...lights/pid/152#

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Hey 666DAN are you using luxeon LED's for the boot lid brake light? That's what I'm currently running... about 5 in a row = MEGA bright!

Most likely not a Luxeon, trying to keep cost on the lower side. I'll be making up a mock sample to send to the manufacturer soon...this is when I'll make a decision on LED type. It will be just as functional, if not more so than stock.

Basically whatever goes in there will follow the concept of the dash light I stock now, super bright LEDs run at 60% output. Like all semiconductors this will actually see closer to the stated max life.

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I've replaced mine the other day with the one from opening post from Japan ..looks awesome.

Only issue is when removing the housing some of the old seal cracked away as it was all hard and shit .. It's actually not seal it's some sort of black gunk, like playdough/bluetack. So I need to buy some more of this shit to fill all the gaps nicely so as not to allow water to come in from the outside and give me that dreaded "rust around bootlid tail light on R34" look..

Any ideas what this black gunk is called? It's soft and sticky and black ..like playdough but stickier..

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I've replaced mine the other day with the one from opening post from Japan ..looks awesome.

Only issue is when removing the housing some of the old seal cracked away as it was all hard and shit .. It's actually not seal it's some sort of black gunk, like playdough/bluetack. So I need to buy some more of this shit to fill all the gaps nicely so as not to allow water to come in from the outside and give me that dreaded "rust around bootlid tail light on R34" look..

Any ideas what this black gunk is called? It's soft and sticky and black ..like playdough but stickier..

Yeah best bet is to leave the red section in place and unclip the rear of it (heads up for all other people) not sure what they call that stuff.

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that black gunk type paste your talking about im pretty sure is what we use at volkswagen, its called Sikaflex. really good stuff that.

and in case you want some piks of the exact setup for the led nismo taillights, as i have genuines in mine, here are some piks:

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dan, i will take the boot lid brake light insert and both the red and white leds for the reverse

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Yeah best bet is to leave the red section in place and unclip the rear of it (heads up for all other people) not sure what they call that stuff.

yeah and those that take it out and ruin that factory seal like I did ..grab a small tube of Bostik (the black one) from bunnings. It's black silicone and costs $4 .. real easy to apply around the edge from the outside, then wipe all excess off and let it dry. Perfecto :P

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