LED Headlights using 3D Printed brackets
Hey all, I wanted to show off my new 3D printed design to adapt some of these Chinese made LED lights into my 1989 Daytona, it may work on other Mopars that use the same alignment bucket design as well.
It's a 10mm thick piece of plastic than can be printed on any Ender 3 sized printer within a few hours.
Here is a video demonstrating the lights and how to install them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq8wDazQ7U4
Here is the download link with information on how to print it:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5100864
Here is the Tinkercad link if you would like to modify the design:
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/7EWmHiEuzmz
This is licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, which means you can modify, remix, and even sell this as long as you credit me as the original author, more information here:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Let me know if you have any thoughts or concerns, I appreciate every comment positive or negative alike.
https://cdn.thingiverse.com/assets/c..._234519900.jpg
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cool.
why is the plastic needed though? my LED lights on my reliant went right into those brackets without any mods..... well other than to fix the broken plastic adjuster bits.....
I should design and print some of those...
I take it the daytona design is different?
i have these lights... they work pretty well. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Brian
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I don't know if this is the case with other Mopars, but this particular light had a heatsink on it bigger than the factory headlight bucket itself. So no amount of modding the original bucket was going to make it work. If you put the bucket side by side with the new light, the new light is a tiny bit bigger overall.
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Aries_Turbo
I got those for my Omni, they fit great!
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Dude is this the bezel that goes around the headlights for the L bodies too? Oh my gosh, this is awesome, regardless!!!
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minigts
Dude is this the bezel that goes around the headlights for the L bodies too? Oh my gosh, this is awesome, regardless!!!
It might be haha, I have no idea. You can probably take the design and print it out on a piece of paper and see. Thanks!
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The daytona lights are smaller. L body is a 6054 bulb and the Daytona is like a 6545
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shmedley
The daytona lights are smaller. L body is a 6054 bulb and the Daytona is like a 6545
That makes sense when you say it. The design is definitely the same, just smaller. I cringe every time I have had to remove them in the past and am just waiting for them to break.
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pop up's were the same size as the 4 lamp system bulbs
the o-e dodge ones were plastic .. possibly the first use of plastic headlights .. at least the first I saw
the plastic ones are light weight and fit in the fog lamp openings of an 89-91 Daytona.. if you can aim them properly and epoxy them in place you get a high / low fog light..
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Man I wish I had time to learn and do 3D printing like this. I would love to make a set for my Grand Caravan so I could run H6054 based headlights, and not have to find a whole cargo van front end.
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INVUJerry
Man I wish I had time to learn and do 3D printing like this. I would love to make a set for my Grand Caravan so I could run H6054 based headlights, and not have to find a whole cargo van front end.
You know, I've had this 3D printer for about 2 years and all I've done with it really is make novelty tools and toys with it. This was just an opportunity that I had to see what I can actually do with it. I'm a learn it by needing it kind of guy, teach yourself how to cook if you're hungry kind of thing.
Every once in a while there's smoking deals at Microcenter where you can pick up the exact model printer I have for I think $100 to $150... And their filament is definitely usable. Especially if you use their online coupon codes which allows you to get 1kg of the stuff for $7 a roll. :eyebrows:
