jonnyd330
jonnyd330 Reader
4/6/12 1:53 p.m.

check out this deal from nomorerack, for only $35 you can have a fast and furious miata straight out of the movie

ha, i didn't know they still sold this crap but i know why it is so cheap

pilotbraden
pilotbraden Dork
4/6/12 2:01 p.m.

SWEET

failboat
failboat Dork
4/6/12 2:08 p.m.

I had green neons under a chrysler minivan in high school.

Grtechguy
Grtechguy PowerDork
4/6/12 2:15 p.m.

I have some small LED pods on the bike for when it's parked.

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/6/12 6:50 p.m.

I once had to reinstall the neon on a customer car after we installed a turbo. It made me feel soiled.

92CelicaHalfTrac
92CelicaHalfTrac MegaDork
4/6/12 6:52 p.m.

That wouldn't have been the one with the Hyundai taillights, would it?

Apexcarver
Apexcarver UberDork
4/6/12 7:48 p.m.

I have a friend who wanted to install them on his car. I finally convinced him that they would fail autocross tech. (mostly because they are possessed of fail and I refused to be a party to their installation)

We did have a car shatter one at an autocross once, it was a PITA to clean up.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon MegaDork
4/6/12 7:51 p.m.

My first encounter with neons was when a tech drove a Toyota Paseo onto the alignment rack, there was a loud 'pop' followed by a cloud of dust and glass fragments. The shop had to replace it for him.

The worst encounter was when a tech came and got me, says 'you got to see this'. There was a cloud car (Cirrus/Stratus) on his lift, there were those little 'beehive' clearance lights stuck everywhere underneath (IIRC there were at least 10 of them) and the wiring was a complete horror story of speaker wire, zip cord and wire nuts..

corytate
corytate Dork
4/6/12 8:46 p.m.

we had a stock (-k&n filter and bed-liner coated stock wheels, of course)early 350z come in the other day with neons running down both sides and in the front. disgusting.

ThePhranc
ThePhranc HalfDork
4/6/12 9:27 p.m.

As the owner of a neon shop..... yeah.....

But we still do them but its around $800 and we do them right. Had a 64 or 65 green Impala have them done not just underneath but inside the trunk, engine bay and interior. They looked great on a show car.

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/6/12 9:34 p.m.
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: That wouldn't have been the one with the Hyundai taillights, would it?

Nope, this was quite a bit earlier. I did improve on the location of the front tube - I hid it inside the nose so it lit up the intercooler. This car looked like it had been driven through a Pep Boys covered in crazy glue.

I crewed for a couple of Miatas during last year's 25 Hours of Thunderhill, and they had LED lights in the wheelwells. A bit stronger than clearance lights, but similar idea. Pretty clever, it added some nice illumination if you needed to do some work.

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