LED questions from a newbie. Any help appreciated

Hello,

This is a great board you folks have here. I wonder if I can trouble you all for an expert opinion regarding a project I have been wanting to attempt. This may sound crazy so please, bear with me.

I have a 1996 Ford Thunderbird and it has LEDs for the rear deck-lid mounted running lights from the factory. I would like to either replace them with a LED that is capable of running continuously at one level of brightness but can brighten up to act as a turn signal in what I hope will become sequential turn signals or modify the factory originals to do the same. I do realize that other electronics will be necessary to complete the effect I am striving for and am open to suggestions on that as well.

I have acquired two spare tail lamp assemblies and will be dissecting one to experiment with. The other I hope to save as a working model for the modification technique.

What I really need to know is, what type of LED do I need to use for this? I'm not sure just how bright they would need to be but, they would need to match the brightness of the modern equivalent of a regular incandescent brake/turn signal bulb.

I sincerely appreciate any help anyone here can offer.


Warped

I am moving this thread over to General Light Discussion http://www.candlepowerforums.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=15&t=000016


As long as I am here I can't say since I don't know how they are using them. I often wondered if they have say 6 in a string to the 12v (14v really) or they use a lot of resistors or ??? Once you get it apart let us know what you find.