66 dart trunk improvement ideas (or waiting on paint to dry)

mcnoople said

What are the boards made of? Is that paneling, 1/4"plywood? I think when I do it I will be using abs since it has a little more flexibility. Looks like a very good start. I watched your led brake light vid on youtube, that is also some very very nice work.

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yeah it's 5 layer 1/4 luan. I have some ABS 3/16th sheet but I was saving that for the door panels . I'm trying to clean up the door s so that it looks smooth with hidden door handles(if I can get the idea to work). so everything gets prototyped in cardboard first, luan ply second and abs 3rd. (if everything works out)

plus I can heat the abs and roll it around the filler tube to give it a full look and pad it also.


yeah the led's came out pretty nice, there are some newer (they are smaller 3 will fit where 1 of this style sit's and just as bright) led's out there that I'm going to try out since I can get a WHOLE lot more of them in the housing and there are some power regulation mod's I want to try to help with low idle light fade and to make the complete thing "almost" plug and play with only 2 wires to splice in to make it work on any 66 dart. the cool part is that you can make all 4 work as a tail turn, even with bulbs using my wiring mod. to me that makes the back of the dart look soooo much better and safer using either custom led boards like I did or bulbs since all 4 light up as turn/stop/tail light instead of just the outer 2 stop/turn/tail and the 2 inner light stayed tails only.