The lights installed are Hella 90mm LED Daytime Running Lights: http://www.myhellalights.com/index.php/ ... m-led-drl/
Each light consists of 3 super bright LEDs with a durable plastic lens and adonized aluminum body.
Aluminum and steel angle iron and aluminum square stock was purchased in addition to a few stainless steel nuts and bolts.
The angle iron was cut and the nuts and bolts were welded to the steel.
The aluminum square stock was welded to the aluminum angle iron to bring the lights out away from the radiator.
The wiring harness has 3 connections, 1 for each light and 1 for power/ground/parking lights.
The power was taken from the fusebox in the passenger footwell (fuse 25 is an unused ignition controlled fuse).
With the ignition on the DRLs are on, but when the parking lights or headlights turn on the DRLs turn off.
Front bumper removed and upside down.
Installed new aluminum angle iron with new modified steel angle iron.
The aluminum angle iron has a notch cut into it because of the AC pipe on the radiator.
The original steel angle iron was replaced due to the change of dimensions when adding the aluminum.
Front end of car with bumper removed.
Showing AC radiator with interfering pipe.
Showing wiring harness for additional lights (left side shown, right side out of field of view).
Black line on the right side frame interface showing top end of new aluminum angle iron.
Ignition on, daytime running lights on, turn signal on.
Ignition on, parking lights on.
Daytime running lights automatically turn off.
Close up of both lights.
The reduced area for airflow is not concerning for the following reasons:
1. The lights use approximately the same area as a front license plate, we have no front license plate.
2. The coolant radiator has been replaced with a new Ron Davis all aluminum alloy radiator (having 1-2 more fins per inch than the OEM radiator) due to a small leak in the original radiator.
3. Running at normal highway speeds and city driving with infrequent stops the coolant temperature stays just below the 1/4 mark (approx 80 C according to ElanScan).
4. The center radiators have 2 cooling fans to force airflow if the temps get too high, the side radiators do not.
Driver's side close up.
Notice the lights are directional. There is a top/bottom and the 2 LEDs must go on the outside with the single LED on the inside.
Passenger's side close up.
Notice the lights are directional. There is a top/bottom and the 2 LEDs must go on the outside with the single LED on the inside.