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Member ID: jrz126

Location: Erie, PA

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1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

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  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed-1mph
  • HP-1
  • Weight-1lbs

Major Upgrades

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

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    • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
    • Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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Got some new leds!
This is a single red/orange led, 3.42 volts and 1 amp, and 190 lumens
jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

This one here is a blue led,

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

I think its about 25 lumens

well I did some work, pics coming soon, here's a few movies though
LED movie 1
LED movie 2
LED movie 3

1/17/05
Wow it's been awhile...got the current driver boards created.
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Update 10/30/04
I tried putting alittle fog into the car with a fog machine. It looks pretty sweet (Alot better than these pics)
jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlojrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Here's a reason why you shouldnt attempt this...

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

I've decided to use my cig. lighter as my switch to turn these lights on and off with. here's a quick picture to show you how I did it. It'll work as long as what ever you connect to it doesnt draw a whole lot of amps (less than 5 should be ok). If it draws more the cig. lighter will heat up and pop out (like it's supposed to).
(stupid firewall at work wont let me upload the pic, I'll post it later.)

The first leds I put in kinda SUCKED. so I'm going to redo them.
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Here's a little jig I made up to solder the wires to the leds. Heres the roof with most of the led s attached.

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Looks a lot cleaner

I installed 62 blacklight LED's in the roof.

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo


The top of the roof.

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The roof reinstalled, and the roof with the LEDs on, the pictures were taken from approximatly the same position (there are a few LED's that weren't working when I took the picture, I have most of them fixed now)

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Another shot of the leds

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo


The circuit board to drive the LED's
Im using a LM3915 VU meter IC for beat detection
This is hooked up to a binary counter, whenever a beat is detected, the counter will count up and change the LEDs that are currently on.

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo

5 volt regulators mounted on a heatsink

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo


An animated pic of the lights, not the greatest pic, but it'll have to do for now

jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo


This pic shows the location of the location of the board.

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The backside of the old board. yuk.

UPDATE 9-24-04
I'm in the process of redsigning it. I'm gonna use some much brighter blue leds, and some shift registers. might even throw a microcontroller in there for the heck of it.
jrz126's 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Here's a breadboarded version of the new driving circuit (the 2 rows of white things are the LEDs). That doesnt even have the full control ability that I want/need. I'm gonna be making my own printed circuit boards for it too.

use the page buttons to navigate
Page 1: this page
Page 2: the leds in the roof
Page 3: some crazy project (spudgun)
Page 4: my boat
Page 5: painted the fornt chrome
Page 6: the subs in the tire well
Page 7: speakerball
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1weeble  

Posted by: 1weeble

03/01/2006 04:26PM

the leds r awesome how much would you charge me to do it

huggybear_564  

Posted by: huggybear_564

04/23/2005 03:46PM

the LED are awesome man. how much time goes into that? Check out my ride. got one same color as you. oh yeah, write me at huggybear_564@yahoo.com and let me know how you did the moniter in counsel area there. i want to do something like that. i got one monitor where the dome light once was. but i like your set up. let me know would you

comptech_69  

Posted by: comptech_69

02/27/2005 12:44AM

Those LED's are freaking insaine! I like how you had the logic board controling them, that's insaine! The speakerball was pretty cool, and the car with the plow made me laugh.. That's funny shit there! :) I'd love to see that thing in action. What program do you have that makes those animated GIF files? I've been looking for one everywhere but can't find anything.

Starbug1S1  

Posted by: Starbug1S1

02/08/2005 10:53AM

I've got the LED's installed on the '01 Monte. It was actually easier than my Dad and I expected. Even though it took us 9 hours to install. :( Anyway. I've got a couple pics up on it. Not the best, but it'll do for now. L8R

phantomtiger  

Posted by: phantomtiger

01/25/2005 08:08PM

Its to stock... I wouldn't even give it a second glance!

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Member ID: jrz126

Location: Erie, PA