LED Ground effects kit for your car

Step 5 Affix LED strands to the bottom of your car

The layout is pretty much up to you, you can have a strand for front, back, left, or right, sides only, front and back only, all sides, whatever.

Make yourself some 2" squares of MDF, two per strand, and epoxy one to each end of each strand. Let that cure.

In the meantime, you can pick out suitable spots to place the strings under your car. Anything that is directly part of the chassis is great. Be careful not to put it too close to the engine or exhaust line! If you want a more temporary attachment, you can bolt the MDF to it or hot glue it for semi-permanent. A liberal amount of hot glue seems to bond the MDF to the metal really well; I've driven 100 miles with my setup and it hasn't fallen off yet. I wouldn't recommend using epoxy or J-B weld in case you have to take it off for whatever reason.

Comments

[Mikey8567]

One thing you could do to make the LED's last long is to take a piece of clear vinyl tubbing (large enought to slide the LED strip in) and once you have it pulled inside then seal the ends with you choice of sealant. This will not only keep the LED array from getting damaged from rocks, salt (if you live in northern states) and other things that would break or ruin it, but you would also make it much easier to clean off the road grime your going to get from every day driving, imagine trying to wipe between all the LED's and such (would be a real pain).  The tubing would slo make it eaiser to mount under the car (IE hose clamps, epoxy, zipties,  ect).

[submariner.89]

Great idea! That's perfect and a cheap solution to a potentially big problem.

[Mikey8567]

The vinyl tubing can be bought from most hardware stores in sizes from 1/4" to 2". As far as zip ties make sure that the black ones are used, they are UV resistant and last much longer and don't get brittle like the clear or white ones do.

As far as sealant make sure it doesn't react badly to vinyl, some discolor it.

[jobergy]

or you could possibly JB Weld it on, just have to make sure there is pressure on the epoxy weld if it is under the car so it has time to completely harden

[Spud18]

Or maybe Zipties?

[DeusXMachina]

That's not a bad idea at all, as long as you have something to ziptie them too. I.e. not the exhaust. Some cars do have random bracketry on the bottom that I imagine is leftover from the manufacturing process.

[Spud18]

Another thing you could use would maybe be hoseclamps, but they take longer to put on but make up for durability. Some cars have little wire hoops here and there and little random holes in the frame/chassis so u could possibly ziptie them, so long as the ties are a decent distance from the exhaust system and moving parts.

[lighteuplife]

Hey to make this not permanent you can fix some of those hard drive magnets, neodymium ur sumthing, to the strand, then it is still a really good hole, yet you can remove it later if a strand fails or somethings of that nature.