I think that a little warm white glow coming out of the hood scoop at night might look pretty good. I'm not talking about some bright neon or anything, but has anyone ever seen or heard of someone doing this? Figure that a few small LEDs under under the hood might give this effect. Thoughts?
I used to put a strobes lights under the hood to my RS. Since I got the the vents scoop hood teh light flash the scoop and the vents at the same time. TIGHT!!!
maybe like this: http://images.google.com/imgres?img.../images?q=hood+scoop+light&svnum=10&hl=en&lr= :mrgreen: Steve
http://www.scilux.com/12Vstrips.htm I think this might work. Not sure how to weather coat though. Maybe a tube or something? I don't want it to be very bright either though... Hm....
http://cgi.ebay.com/12-Flexible-Thi...574777991QQcategoryZ66952QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Sorry about the double post but just found this. I am going to get one and attempt to hook it up. I will post when done.
You might also want to consider using electroluminescent wire. Some of them vary the hue by the frequency of the applied power. (With some electronics work, you could make the color vary by RPM, for example). See http://elwire.com for some introductory info. NOTE: you'd probably be breaking some laws having this turned on while driving down the street. As long as it's white or amber, though, and not bright enough to be considered a "fifth headlight", you're probably okay. I always thought it'd be cool to have a tangle of blue and white "chaser" X-mas tree lights under the hood, so it'd look like you had a lightning storm going where your engine should be.
Lights in the hood might look pretty cool if done right. I think it would be pretty nice to have lights that were red, yellow and orange and make it look like there's flames inside the engine compartment.
i thought about doing amber led's that turn on above 10psi... never really got arround to even looking for parts.
the EL wire is good stuff. coud just run it aroudn the edge of the TMIC and it should give a proper glow.
I got the light did a half a$s install because I was doing it outside and took a picture. I didn't know that the WRX only uses 3 of the 4 intake slots, So, I have mixed emotions over the light now. But, if I had an STI, well then it would probably look a lot better. Anyway, here it is.
