I need to know the maximum you would be willing to pay for RD2 angel eyes with laser engraved light distribution, any single color.

I may be able to swing vent halos for RD1 and RD2 as well.

I'm trying to work out a deal with the laser guys and I need to know how much I have to put into this. What is a fair price for LED lighted angel eyes? Keep in mind, quality for pricing. If you want to pay less, I'd be able to put in less.

Bottom line: I'm making angel eyes for me, but if the atmosphere is right, then I may be up for producing these for you guys.

 

What are the actual benefits of the laser engraving? I honestly never had a problem with the light distribution the way they are normally done. Got any pictures?

 

you should include installation if someones close enough...*cough cough* some people are not mechanically inclined. *cough*

Just kidding. id say enough to ccover price and a small fee but dont go overboard

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Im wondering the same. Sure, they may be more precise but could you actually tell?

 

I don't have any pix yet, I've got an experimental piece. When I say experimental, it came out great but I experimented on it and now it is no longer perfect. It's actually been scarred pretty badly. I have one more tester but it is not the same pattern. It was one of the many prototypes i've had run.


1. The disturbances in the acryllic are extremely precise. Each and every one of them is exactally the same distance from the next.

2. The disturbancs are multi ridged, which means the entire ridge lights up instead of just the edge of the ridge lighting up in a dremmel pattern on 1/2 of the ridge.

3. The correction: Shark Racing set has a bunch of LED stuck straight into the back side creating bright spots all throughout the ring. This is unneeded with the laser etched set. They are completely evenly lit with 2 LEDs. Which means the entire ring will be uniformly lit. This is possible because none of the ridges are blocking the next one in the light's path.

4. The disturbances are just that, disturbances. They're quite hard to notice without the light on. This is possible because the acryllic is not scratched, it was burned by a ~50nanometer laser multiple times in a single area. At a high temperature, using this type of laser, the acryllic burns off leaving no residue or scars.

5. possibly- the LEDs could be covered so that you cannot see them, just the disturbances, making a uniformly even ring of light.


Alli: you can have the friends and family discount, double! J/k.

 

Flyryde angel eyes have two LED's in them, one on each end of the acrylic. I'm not sure which ones you saw that have multiple leds in them.

 

actually, that laser engraving sounds really nice.. i would have to see what these would actually look like, but may be interested in a white set of these in the future.

get a final prototype made so we can see how 'even' the light will be distributed, and the way the laser cuts look.

i would pay between 70-80$ for a set of these if that was possible..

how would these hook up? just to the corner lights? wire into a fuse? etc.

 

^^To comply with every state's laws, I will provide enough wire to make it to the battery or corners, a fuse, wire taps, and a switch, It can be tapped into the lighting system for the corner markers, or hooked to a switch and conneted to the battery. Some states have auxiliary lighting laws, some allow them on road, some only off road or when the car is stationary. This will cover all laws.


Java: I saw a set that had like 6 LEDs stuck directly into the back side. They said it was from flyryde.


here's a few prototype pix. not the real thing.

They're not the finished product, but you can see what is possible with laser etching.







There's no pix of the final, because while experimenting I melted 1/2 of the disturbances to see if it would be possible to make them completely invisible, then it was shattered when i applied alcohol to clean the hot acryllic. Still in one piece, but shattered internally.

 

Unless Chris changed the way he makes them they were not flyrydes angel eyes. I had a set in my 99 and I have a set of vents in a box around here.

 

Those are the Shark Racing ones. Chris still uses the same 2 LED setup