A good machinist buddy of mine took my cap to work with him and milled it down to perfection. No personal access to a machine shop, but access via friendship for the win.
Wow! This is amazing! I really would like to add these lights to mine as well, but it seems like a lot of work that I can't commit to lol.Some quick photos of the ambient lighting I installed last week. For the cup holders I bought the Ford OEM ones that have the lighting built in. There are three power leads going to them (Red, Green and Blue LED) and a ground. I powered the green LED fully but put a variable resister on the blue LED power to bring it down so I could get the Ice Blue (aqua) color to match the rest of the interior controls. Picked up the power for this from the parking switch lighting.
As for the doors and footwells, I used an LED strip that has the three colors in each LED. With the strip, you can cut it to any length you want as long as it is every three LED's and soldier your own wiring onto the cut strip. I bought two strips each are 15" long. I cut one 3 LED section to use for the door handles but only used one LED and put it over the hole that is in the door handle that is for the OEM ambient light LED. I cut a 6 LED strip and put it in the back of the storage bin in the door that has a slot to come through. The remaining LED's that were left on the 15" strip which is now about 8" long I put in the foot wells. As with the cup holder, I wired the green LED with full power but put a variable resistor on the blue LED power and brought it down to 8.6 volts which to my eye matched the Ice Blue color of the dash controls. I got the power for the door LED's from the power window switch lighting and for the footwells, I taped off of the headlamp control lighting. The cup holders and footwells will dim with the dash board dimmer but the doors do not since the door window switches do not dim with the dash dimmer. It all looks great at night.
It is hard to get a good photo with the lights being so dim and the colors don't show up all the same. The lights definitely look better in person. They also look brighter in the photos than they actually are.
Should've come this way from the factory given Premium ecoboosts/GTs are all kitted out with this stuff. Was peeved to find that out.
I seriously debated this because Race Red of ALL colors is the least 'Clash'. So it works stock or tinted IMO. Consensus with friends and wife was all black panel looked better. Once you paint them its pretty much no going back. Hard to tell right now with no spoiler and just rear shot, But i think with 3/4 view and spoiler back on will look good. Would never look bad just debate if better than stock. I am pleasantly surprised how well the black matches the center panel...thats always a tricky one to match black shiny plastic.
Looks great!Installed Euro style clear rear taillights, diode dynamics smoked LED side marker, tinted the lower red reflectors. Changed the entire look of back end.
