DIY: EVO-R Foglight Install

PaulZ370 · 02-25-2012, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by hot370z

Ok i taped into the orange wire with the RED wire.Then ground with the black wire. I put the white wire to the license plate light I turned on my headlights and the forlight started to blink i thought the only time it blink when you put in reverse. It started to blink HELP.

Hey Dude - anytime you put power to the WHITE wire, it's going to blink. With the Orange wire being the reverse, anytime you put it in Reverse, you put power to the blinking feature of the light, and it will blink. If you only want it to come on Steady for Reverse, then take the RED wire and connect it to the Orange wire of the car, but that means no Steady On with the parking lights now. Keep in mind anytime you put power to the WHITE wire of the light, it will blink. There is no other way around it.

370zproject · 02-25-2012, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulZ370

Hey Dude - anytime you put power to the WHITE wire, it's going to blink. With the Orange wire being the reverse, anytime you put it in Reverse, you put power to the blinking feature of the light, and it will blink. If you only want it to come on Steady for Reverse, then take the RED wire and connect it to the Orange wire of the car, but that means no Steady On with the parking lights now. Keep in mind anytime you put power to the WHITE wire of the light, it will blink. There is no other way around it.

*brain explode *

PaulZ370 · 02-25-2012, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 370zproject

*brain explode *

Sorry dude... it made sense to me... LOL!

PaulZ370 · 02-26-2012, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulZ370

Sorry dude... it made sense to me... LOL!

Ok - one more time, a little more clearer maybe:

On the EVO-R light there are three wires: Red (Steady On), White (Blinking), and Black (Ground)
On the car there are four wires in the left (Driver's Side) tail light harness that could be used: Green (Brake), Red (Taillights), Orange (Reverse) and Black (Ground)

If you put power (12V) to the WHITE wire on the EVO-R light, the light will blink.
If you put power (12V) to the RED wire on the EVO-R light, it will burn Steady
Black is the Ground Wire on both Car and EVO-R light wiring. You will need to connect the Black Wire on the EVO-R light to the Black Wire in the Tail light's Harness regardless of what else you do with the other wires.

SO...
1, If you want the light to blink on Braking, Connect the WHITE EVO-R wire to the GREEN Tail Light Harness wire
2. If you want the light to Blink on Reverse, Connect the WHITE EVO-R wire to the ORANGE Tail Light Harness wire
3. If you want the light to burn Steady on Parking Lights On, then Connect the RED EVO-R wire to the RED Tail Light Harness wire

... I hope this clarified my previous convoluted post about all that. I wrote it just before I had to run out the door so it came out a little garbled....

hot370z · 02-24-2012, 10:29 PM

Ok help me here Im going to us the driver side rear taillight harness. The wires from the EVO-R The red wire goes to what color wire on the tailight harness,the black goes to what color on the harness and the white wire goes what color on the harness.

370zproject · 02-24-2012, 10:54 PM

anyone near the tennesse area that has done it wanna come help me do it?

tower74 · 02-25-2012, 12:27 AM

If you have a volt meter...it helps. I installed mine back well over a year ago. I don't know if they fix the color code issue but we took it to the battery of the car to verify which wire went to what...the blinking...the running light etc.
We tapped into the driver side tail light and looked (with the volt meter) to find the brake light...which in turn makes it blink...then located the running light. We didn't cut the extra wire simply because it gives you the option to remove and put it on a new rear clip.

hot370z · 02-26-2012, 12:12 PM

Got it work I connet the WHITE wire form EVO-R to the Orange wire on the taillight then the Red to the RED and BLACK to Ground. Doesn't flash when on reverse. Thats ok I got it to work..I guess the orange it's reverse on my tail light harness.

PaulZ370 · 02-26-2012, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hot370z

Got it work I connet the WHITE wire form EVO-R to the Orange wire on the taillight then the Red to the RED and BLACK to Ground. Doesn't flash when on reverse. Thats ok I got it to work..I guess the orange it's reverse on my tail light harness.

Check make sure you have good connections on the White/Orange pair ...?

370zproject · 02-26-2012, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulZ370

Sorry dude... it made sense to me... LOL!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaulZ370

Ok - one more time, a little more clearer maybe:

On the EVO-R light there are three wires: Red (Steady On), White (Blinking), and Black (Ground)
On the car there are four wires in the left (Driver's Side) tail light harness that could be used: Green (Brake), Red (Taillights), Orange (Reverse) and Black (Ground)

If you put power (12V) to the WHITE wire on the EVO-R light, the light will blink.
If you put power (12V) to the RED wire on the EVO-R light, it will burn Steady
Black is the Ground Wire on both Car and EVO-R light wiring. You will need to connect the Black Wire on the EVO-R light to the Black Wire in the Tail light's Harness regardless of what else you do with the other wires.

SO...
1, If you want the light to blink on Braking, Connect the WHITE EVO-R wire to the GREEN Tail Light Harness wire
2. If you want the light to Blink on Reverse, Connect the WHITE EVO-R wire to the ORANGE Tail Light Harness wire
3. If you want the light to burn Steady on Parking Lights On, then Connect the RED EVO-R wire to the RED Tail Light Harness wire

... I hope this clarified my previous convoluted post about all that. I wrote it just before I had to run out the door so it came out a little garbled....

its cool iv never worked on anything eletrical before so took a min lol

Mandingo · 06-09-2012, 12:06 AM

Thanks for the great write up!

One question though.
I hooked up the flashing wire to the reverse light and the steady-on wire to the brakes. For some reason, the evo-r light is very dim with the brakes on and the LEDs do not light up evenly. When flashing in reverse, it is 2x brighter and the LEDs seem to light up evenly.

All my connections look good. Is there anything that might cause the dim light that I'm not thinking of?

MattP725 · 06-09-2012, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Mandingo

Thanks for the great write up!

One question though.
I hooked up the flashing wire to the reverse light and the steady-on wire to the brakes. For some reason, the evo-r light is very dim with the brakes on and the LEDs do not light up evenly. When flashing in reverse, it is 2x brighter and the LEDs seem to light up evenly.

All my connections look good. Is there anything that might cause the dim light that I'm not thinking of?

What you are hoping for wont work...

The steady on is dimmer than the brightness of the flash... when produced it was means to match the dimmer tail lights when steady on, so the way you have it wired it will always mismatch (brakes brighter than steady on, tail lights brighter than nothing on obviously).

Wire the steady on to the regular taillight, and wire the flash to the brakes/reverse... only way it will look 100% right in my opinion.

If you want something to purely function as an additional brake light, go with the OEM one... it is brighter than the stock tail lights.

LMBmikeZ · 06-09-2012, 07:53 AM

As far as the light being dim, that sounds a little off it should be fairly bright

though I would also check my ground connection cars hate having crappy grounds. Also it will not get any brighter when you apply the brakes, it won't do that with out special electronics (which would be costly and I have yet to see any one do it yet, although my old man explained the process that would be needed and which electronic parts I would need.)

One Question though : you said that you wired the steady-on wire to the brakes. Now was this to the wire for the brake signal or for the night lights(turn you headlights/taillights on)? IMO because the fog light doesn't brighten with brakes applied, it is better just to tie it into the night lights so that way it just comes on and stays on rather then having it come n every time you hit the brakes because it looks cheap when it lights up but is no where near as bright as the rest of the brake lights.

Red_Z · 09-11-2012, 11:30 PM

does it has to be the hazard switch? Anyone know will the Sync Rev switch works?

cHuNsTa · 09-15-2012, 07:09 PM

so i just ordered mines and i had a problem fitting the new light with the grey housing that sandwiches the back plate and the black housing where the 2 10mm nuts are screwed to. any input on how you guys got that light to fit?

02-24-2012, 10:54 PM	#6 (permalink)
370zproject A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Memphis Age: 35 Posts: 16,104 Drives: 09 A/T 370z blue Rep Power: 53	anyone near the tennesse area that has done it wanna come help me do it? __________________ Brake Upgrade Package ate blue, hawk hp ceramic pads, and slotted rotors

06-09-2012, 12:06 AM	#11 (permalink)
Mandingo Track Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Dallas Posts: 625 Drives: '10 370z 6spd Rep Power: 3371	Thanks for the great write up! One question though. I hooked up the flashing wire to the reverse light and the steady-on wire to the brakes. For some reason, the evo-r light is very dim with the brakes on and the LEDs do not light up evenly. When flashing in reverse, it is 2x brighter and the LEDs seem to light up evenly. All my connections look good. Is there anything that might cause the dim light that I'm not thinking of? __________________ some mods

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LMBmikeZ A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,237 Drives: 40th Rep Power: 10351	As far as the light being dim, that sounds a little off it should be fairly bright though I would also check my ground connection cars hate having crappy grounds. Also it will not get any brighter when you apply the brakes, it won't do that with out special electronics (which would be costly and I have yet to see any one do it yet, although my old man explained the process that would be needed and which electronic parts I would need.) One Question though : you said that you wired the steady-on wire to the brakes. Now was this to the wire for the brake signal or for the night lights(turn you headlights/taillights on)? IMO because the fog light doesn't brighten with brakes applied, it is better just to tie it into the night lights so that way it just comes on and stays on rather then having it come n every time you hit the brakes because it looks cheap when it lights up but is no where near as bright as the rest of the brake lights. __________________ CUSTOM NISMO \| BERK \| H&R \| STANCE \| SPL everything \| EVO-R \| 34 Setrab \| WHITELINE \| Redline \| Carkitcompany \| Zspeed \| UpRev \| SEIBON Last edited by LMBmikeZ; 06-09-2012 at 07:56 AM.

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hot370z Base Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: CA Posts: 102 Drives: 370Z Rep Power: 17	Ok help me here Im going to us the driver side rear taillight harness. The wires from the EVO-R The red wire goes to what color wire on the tailight harness,the black goes to what color on the harness and the white wire goes what color on the harness.

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hot370z Base Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: CA Posts: 102 Drives: 370Z Rep Power: 17	Got it work I connet the WHITE wire form EVO-R to the Orange wire on the taillight then the Red to the RED and BLACK to Ground. Doesn't flash when on reverse. Thats ok I got it to work..I guess the orange it's reverse on my tail light harness.

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