Batboard

I finished this 2 months ago and just now got some pics of it to put up.



Front grill LED's, they are both red in color.



Rear Led's both in red, and my low band in the center of the trunk and the high band in the look alike cell antenna. I don't have the brass ones to cut holes in my car so it is all trunk lip mounted which works out great no problems.



My radio's it is a Jotto desk impala contour stack. Top radio is a mom M CDM1550LS high band then the light siren controls then the bottom is the low band Maratrac radio and the lil coJack light on the side that i throw up on the roof when i need it.

Hope you like it! i know i like it and it functions with out a problem.

Very nice. How did you attach the leds behind the grill? Just drill into the metal behind it?

For right now the grill lights are held in by some double sided tape. I know this is cheesy and not the proper way for this install but it is very tight back there, and at the time i didn't have that much time to disassemble the grill to properly drill and install screws. I will be doing this in 2 weeks when i have some time off. But for now they are holding strong and not going anywhere.

Thanks for the kind words about the install!!!

smk8er wrote:Rear Led's both in red, and my low band in the center of the trunk and the high band in the look alike cell antenna. I don't have the brass ones to cut holes in my car so it is all trunk lip mounted which works out great no problems.

Ahh... Drilling the first hole only hurts a little bit. All the ones after that are a piece of cake!

Anyway, nice install!

smk8er wrote:For right now the grill lights are held in by some double sided tape. I know this is cheesy and not the proper way for this install but it is very tight back there, and at the time i didn't have that much time to disassemble the grill to properly drill and install screws. I will be doing this in 2 weeks when i have some time off. But for now they are holding strong and not going anywhere.

FWIW:

Instead of trying to drill holes into the steel bumper for my Hella driving lights, I drilled holes down thru the carbon fiber substructure that holds the plastic bumper/grille assembly up. If you pop out the 3 plastic clips above the grille, pull the grille up and out and remove it (it has no "hard" mounting points) you can see what I'm talking about. You can also pull the outer 2 with the rubber doughnuts if you want more accessiblity.

Flip the brackets upside down (with the lights in them) and check for clearance with the grille. Once you've got them back far enough and spaced how you like, drill the holes from the top down. Mount the brackets from the bottom, upside down, using either a 3/4" or 1" nylon spacer to drop the light heads down into position.

My lights were like that for the almost 4 years I had the car.

Thats a good idea i will check that out next week. Thanks for the tip!

Do you have a source for the police package electrical diagrams for this IMPALA or is it a stock unit?
Rick