HALOs...my own personal HELL

OMG! This thread was started NOV 2009!!! That's just plain ridiculous to wait for stinkin halos!

This odyssey started 22 months ago, and finally finished today.

My SINCERE thanks to:

Dartboy. Chris, without your home, your stove, your work...the rings never would have made it into the housings.

LilJoeJoe: Joey, you helped lay the groundwork on the wiring with a regulator that is truly a one of a kind in the world...never been done.

PLCMAN: Raymond, without your regulator and electronics genius, the whole damn thing wouldn't have ever worked.

DAHNIC: DIallo, my friend...you've been in this with me since day 1. Who has a better buddy than me, someone that would drive all the way out from Ohio, for 1 day, just to help me try to finish these things?

Mr. Norms Garage: Tim and Andy, for finishing the whole deal up and making this Frankenstein monster of a project come to life. Thanks, all of you!

-D

That is awesome news! They look great and im happy for ya bro! Did ya have ot bring it to NASA to figure out that schematic? Lol.

liljoejoe54 wrote:

That is awesome news! They look great and im happy for ya bro! Did ya have ot bring it to NASA to figure out that schematic? Lol.

Yeah, pretty much.

And now on to the "easier" lighting ideas, Joey: grille & dash lighting.

Thats sweet dave... im really happy for you! Can't wait to spot you crusing around LITH. They look good! I still need to get the amber fogs for a project i wanna tackle.

Glad I could help!! And real glad they up and runnin now....

As for grill and under dash light...real easy.... Say when and we'll hook ya up!

Hypnotiq wrote:

Thats sweet dave... im really happy for you! Can't wait to spot you crusing around LITH. They look good! I still need to get the amber fogs for a project i wanna tackle.

Call me

Dartboy wrote:

Glad I could help!! And real glad they up and runnin now....

As for grill and under dash light...real easy.... Say when and we'll hook ya up!

"when"

They look really Dave !!!!

HemiMag wrote:

They look really Dave !!!!

Huh?

Iguanaman wrote:

HemiMag wrote:

They look really Dave !!!!

Huh?

"Dave" is the new way of saying "Good". Sometimes I say "Im gonna go take a Brian" which of course is another way of saying "shit".

does this mean we are finally going to see you again.you have been in hiding way to long

liljoejoe54 wrote:

Iguanaman wrote:

HemiMag wrote:

They look really Dave !!!!

Huh?

"Dave" is the new way of saying "Good". Sometimes I say "Im gonna go take a Brian" which of course is another way of saying "shit".

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

liljoejoe54 wrote:

Iguanaman wrote:

HemiMag wrote:

They look really Dave !!!!

Huh?

"Dave" is the new way of saying "Good". Sometimes I say "Im gonna go take a Brian" which of course is another way of saying "shit".

u stupid fuck...

Dave, I'm glad they are FINALLY running the way they should be! They look spectacular!!
I'm sorry we couldn't get them up and running last year but I'd come out there again to help if needed.
Now go get the damn car tuned and tear up some streets!!!

nice dave! good to hear your hell is over.

i just ended my own kinda halo hell myself. when i first installed mine a couple years ago i bought 2 different epoxy's for the rings. a clear plastic one and a gunmetal color all purpose one. i tried the gun metal one first on the passenger side headlight because i thought it would look better if you saw any of the epoxy. well that gunmetal one took forever to set for some reason so i used the plastic epoxy on the driver side headlight. no big deal right? well it was a big deal. turns out a year later i find out that gunmetal color epoxy was metallic based and it bridged the resistors on the back of the rings. this resulted in the resistors going bad on that headlight. my driver side headlight halos have never had a problem the two years i have had halos since i used the plastic based epoxy on the rings in that light. lesson learned.

so just got my last replacement ring in from flashtech and put it in today with plastic based epoxy. everything is back to 100% and i shouldn't have a problem again.

so i have had one or two setbacks with the halos, but i don't ever see not having them on the car. they are worth it.

Grrrrrrr.....

DA H.N.I.C. wrote:

Dave, I'm glad they are FINALLY running the way they should be! They look spectacular!!
I'm sorry we couldn't get them up and running last year but I'd come out there again to help if needed.
Now go get the damn car tuned and tear up some streets!!!

Thanks, D. Tune comes a week from today! Gotta run the 89 out and put in 93 first. Already down to a quarter tank.

Iguanaman wrote:

Hypnotiq wrote:

Thats sweet dave... im really happy for you! Can't wait to spot you crusing around LITH. They look good! I still need to get the amber fogs for a project i wanna tackle.

Call me

I will this week dave!!

Looks fantastic Dave! Grrr indeed!

chargerchick wrote:

Looks fantastic Dave! Grrr indeed!

Thanks, Sister Christian!

Huh...I didn't know it, but someone caught audio of my phone call trying to get these halos done at some point...





And video of me after they were installed...

Looks so great Dave!

I am glad you got this wired, they look real good you should see no heating at all, from the halo's. The regulator is a PWM based unit capable of well over 15 amps! The frequency pot can make them stobe to the point you can't look at them. This setup he has is custom and this wasn't an easy wiring task at all, good luck with them.

Now if anyone needs a bullet proof regulator with 2 outputs capable of 15 amps per output let me know.

Plcman wrote:

I am glad you got this wired, they look real good you should see no heating at all, from the halo's. The regulator is a PWM based unit capable of well over 15 amps! The frequency pot can make them stobe to the point you can't look at them. This setup he has is custom and this wasn't an easy wiring task at all, good luck with them.

Now if anyone needs a bullet proof regulator with 2 outputs capable of 15 amps per output let me know.

We'll have to talk about the strobe setup...that one isn't even wired up yet. Even more fun courtesy of Raymond! I'm running 3 switches: mains, fogs, and master override for show lighting when the car is turned off.

BTW, Andy from Mr. Norms ended up mounting the box under the carpeting in the trunk, left hand side. Nice and ventilated form the rear wheel well vents (now that my resonators are gone).