<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tiburon2 @ Jul 20 2007, 07:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Thanks DTN, but what is the difference of hooking them up to door versus battery?</div>

Personal preference. I'd like mine to be a part of the interior lighting system so when you open the door, the floor illuminates as well as overhead.

 

^can you still operate it to a switch so it can be on when door is closed?

 

You'd have to either 1. deal with the maps/dome comming on when you flip the switch, 2. You could isolate the switch from the domes with a diode cluster, or 3. you could have a relay triggered by the maps/dome bypass your current switch.

Option 1 would be the easiest and require you to hook up a wire from the door trigger switch to the power wire of your lighting
Option 2 would require some electronics knowledge but would also be the cheapest method.
Option 3 would be the standard automotive modification method.

 

To light it with the doors, do I need to run wires from the doors inside, or there is a way to trace a source under the dash?

 

The switches themselves are on the door sill near the locking bar. Without checking the schematics, they are most likely ground when the door is open. If you hook up a relay coil to power, and the door line, then the contacts to either side of your current switch, it should work. You should only need to tap one of those switch lines.

 

Since I was taking pics of my dash lighting project, I figured I'd take some shots of the interior. It's nothing special, but I'm happy with it! BTW, my car is a little dirty...

 

Looks good. I like it silver always looks good on the interior

 

dont like the ricer paint, but at least its a nuetral color which makes it alot better, but the LED's look great. i dig the purple.

 

just promised some folks some photos before i leave for europe. inside when pitch. i wasn't going to show anything until the installed pioneer, but it's still going in and the red theme is going to continue farther down the din. i chose red because it's very easy on the eyes and blends in well with traffic brake lights. the gauge faces are white, so in the dusk the tint mixes with the white to form a beautiful fading array on the panels. if i had kept the stock faces without removing the white diffusion it would have come out totally ninja flawless but the F2 gauges had some cruddy orange diffusion and darkened plastic tint. i wanted to be original more than beautiful.




mad props to DTN and tibby01 for helping me in dire need. When I bugged one too much, I bugged the other to level it out.