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Member ID: 1999TransAmWS6

Location: New Lenox, IL

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1999 Pontiac Trans Am

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile13.1 sec @ 104 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP365
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

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    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
    • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

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Last updated: Jul 28, 2009

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Jason’s Pontiac Trans Am

  • Currently 3.9384615384615 /5 Stars.
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KNIGHT RIDER STYLE SCANNER LIGHT BUILD

1999TransAmWS6's 1999 Pontiac Trans Am

After seeing the new Knight Rider movie (even though it was a mustang), the light was pretty cool in the ram air scoops. I wanted to do something similar. I have a background in electronics so it wasn't too bad.

Construction Materials:

64 8mm 45,000mcd wide angle LED's (note..normal LED's are only 3,000mcd bright. $20.00

1 10x8 perf board $5.00

Knight Rider Scanner kit from Ebay for $15.00.

Some Plastic and plastic screws for the box. $10.00

Light Diffuser (The diamond shaped sheets you get for the tube style lights in your house) $5.00

Window Tint 20% $5.00

Total cost.....about $60.00 not including some wires, toggle switch, etc. Plus about 8 hours to assemble it.

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Here's the board with the LEDs attached. This is 3 different boards. I had to make it flexible or I'd never be able to get it inside my hood. You can see the wires in the 2nd picture. I have the kit driving 2 LED's on each side. 2 of them are in series and those 2 are in parallel with the other 2 on the second board. That was the limit on this knight rider circuit. I would need to use transistors to drive more and I didn't want to get into that.

1999TransAmWS6's 1999 Pontiac Trans Am


Here's the traces I made on the back of one of the LED boards. I bascially just bent the LED leads over and soldered them to the next one.

 

 

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goku4444  

Posted by: goku4444

07/28/2009 09:12PM

I loved knight rider as a black bird but your car looks a lot cooler. It should have been in the new knight rider instead of a mustang.5* I didn't install the lambos myself had them done at a local shop that installs them.

wintermute365  

Posted by: wintermute365

07/27/2009 04:42PM

Thats some crazy electronics/lighting! Very cool. The glove box is too much. 5 stars.

whiteboy543455  

Posted by: whiteboy543455

07/24/2009 09:49PM

this is one of the very few T/A's on this site that actually deserves the 5* rating! Very nice. thats a seriously custom vehicle

hxc_drummer  

Posted by: hxc_drummer

06/28/2009 11:54AM

overall what an amazing trans am, i can tell you've spent alot of time assembling everything by hand. Great job, and keep up the good work.

blackhawk_2009  

Posted by: blackhawk_2009

05/09/2009 09:48PM

just put up a link to a video with my car sound. check it out bro

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Member ID: 1999TransAmWS6

Location: New Lenox, IL