Hey Guys ChrisFix here we are back with Episode 3 of Project Police Interceptor
where we were together all our police lights
we have front visor lights we have a rear traffic advisor we have a LED light bar we have little LEDs and we
have a dash cam + miles and miles of wire
I cannot wait to get this all in there and see this thing light up
Depending on the laws in your area you might or might not be able to wire lights to your vehicle if your a first
responder you might be able to run red and Blue's you might be able to run just
Blue's or you might be able to run orange lights it all depends on your local laws
If you're not a first responder: police officer, first aid, firefighter
This video is still gonna show you how to wire stuff properly and just the process of
building a police car all the little intricacies that has the little features
at the P 71 has and it's just kind of a unique build like whoever gets to build
a police car, not many people so it's pretty sweet. Wow that being said we
have the permits for the state that this car is going to be used in. Now listen
closely this car specifically is being used by a police officer to go to and
from where he lives two hours away from where he works. He encounters many traffic
accidents and many officers assists where he pretty much sees a police officer
on the side of the the road that needs help. That is why this car is being made, so he's always
the first one there on an accident or he's always assisting officers he was almost hit
once because his daily driver doesn't have lights on. It's not going to be
used to pull people over whatever you guys are fantasizing about. It is strictly
going to be used for assisting in accidents and assisting officers on his
way to work. I think I made that pretty clear so let's get to the fun stuff.
oh by the way check this out how good do those wheels look. I need to clean up the
tires making with black, but those rims are looking gorgeous on this car and I'm
gonna have a video on how to paint your rims. I'm gonna being painting them black.
This what they used to look like, They had these cheap hubcaps and I don't really like
the look on those neither did the officer so we're changing it up.
Underneath those hubcaps are these disgusting rims and then after we paint
and prep those rims it turns into this now that video is gonna be awesome, so
stay tuned for that. And now that you got all the background information
let's begin
Episode 3 of Project Police Interceptor. So as you guys know whenever you do a
project whether it's a big project like Project Police Interceptor or little
project like putting in a light bar, you want to outline what you're doing. So
there are five main things were going to be doing for this project.
the first thing is going to be installing these red and blue traffic
advisors and also a dash cam. The second thing we're doing is mounting a rear
traffic advisor this sits on the rear deck just like that. The third thing
we're doing is mounting a light bar in the front grill area. The fourth thing
we're doing is we're gonna mount these many LEDs right under the bumper which
is gonna look awesome you just wait and see. and the fifth thing we're going to do
is we're building a center console to mount all the controls and switches in a
go over how to make a center console see the whole process but for now it's gonna
house our siren box here that's going to go somewhere over here. There's gonna
be switches to control the lights right over here and then this is gonna be a
compartment that could hold the gun for transportation to and from the station.
all the wires from everything we're wiring up from the visor lights to the
rear traffic advisor to the front lights to the siren they're all gonna be wired
right here. So as we install everything the wires will end up right here, so
that's the importance of having a plan for your build trust me
draw out, think it out. Whatever you need to do it'll make the project goes smooth
as possible. Now let's get started
All right the first lights we're going to mount are these front visor lights. The reason
why these are called visor lights is because these clip right to wear the
visor meet the headliner pretty simple install. Firemen and EMS use the, all the
time. It's a hideaway type light the install looks clean. So let's get it in
there. Alright will do one visor at a time get these the way we could see you
gonna slide right underneath this. So we just need to loosen that up just a
little bit and the same here, there's three will loosen that up just a little
bit and then these forks are gonna slide in just like that.
Alright let's loosen these up.
And the officer is calling me. And I'm gonna have to call him back, because we're getting
Episode 3 of Project Police Interceptor done. So we're going to loosen up these
three bolts that hold the visor in. Ok so with these visor bolts loose we can slide the lights in
Just need to see if these bad boys in there. Alright and they're in.
But the problem is this side doesn't want to go all the way in because we
have 123 bolts holding it in. And one the bolts is blocking the fins from
sliding in. So i'm a trim one of the fins so we could slide it in more and
then that should work.
and just make sure the end here isn't sharp because you'll cut the headliner if it is.
Let's try this again.
Good, now let's tighten up the visor bolts. Get this nice and snug so it doesn't fall out.
Tighten up other one, that's one two and three. Make sure that it's in there good and this is.
Now we need to remove that plastic shield that goes on here that's protecting
this. And scrape that scrape off the sticker too. We're going to put a little piece of
felt right up against the glass, so if it vibrates it doesn't tap against the glass
it taps against the felt. It will make it a lot quieter and since this is mounted in
will take off the screws that bolt into the actual light here and here. That's
one and two. And that slides right out. I don't know why but I love peeling this stuff off.
Now we have our felt. Got to peel that sticky backing off and tape it right to the part that's gonna
rest against the windshield, just like so. Good and now we can slide this back in here
and screw down the light.
OK, now I want to make sure that the lights sits as tight as possible
up against the windshield. So I am gonna loosen up the side screws and push the
light up to force it against the glass. So now with this loose, I'm pushing upwards
and tightening the screws to hold it in place. That's tight and that's tight. And that's all
it takes. now this is nice until you get hit the buttons, it's not going anywhere
and it's mounted flush against the windshield. Now i'm gonna fly through the other
side because you know how it's done. Just like doing your first break job, the
first time takes some trial and error and the second side goes a lot faster.
Alright, with the passenger side and driver-side in, We'll connect the two clips.
And tuck it into the headliner for a nice clean wire free install. Before you
know it look at that. Now that looks good.
With those wires tucked in we come over here and then we have
our long wire where that goes to the cigarette lighter. And we want to tuck this in right down
here and run it down here
all the way to the floor. We're running all their wires the passenger side floorboard right over
here. We'll start by getting around a pillar plastic molding and basically we
want the wire to be hidden behind the plastic and weatherstripping so it's out
of site. Run it all the way down the door. Take off the plastic here and here we're
We're gonna cut the light cigarette lighter adapter because it's not what we're
going to be using. Let's pull up the carpet and snake that freshly cut wire
under the carpet, across.
We'll put that carpet back for now and there you go first light is done. Alright
so they're wired in and the reason why we're going to the Center for the center
console is because you can see right here these wires coming through here.
These wires are from the old center console that was in here and there hot
wires there's 12 volts running to them. They didn't do a very good job cutting
and capping, them they should taped them up, but that's not the point. The point is
we're going to run our wires for all our lights and other accessories right here
for the center console. And that's how we're gonna power them. Since we're still
working at the front of the car
let's go install our dash camera. Every police officer needs a dash camera so
that what happens is recorded. This camera shoots in HD and it's wide angle. We're going
to mount it right up here and then we're going to take this wiring harness. And
we're gonna run it the same way we ran it with our visor lights all the way
down and I'm gonna run it to our center console right here.
Now that mirror is set up the way the officer likes it and I think this dash
cam would go great great beyond the mirror just like that. You can't see, it's not in
the way. It's basically there only if you ever need it and this suction cups
right to the glass like so. We got to plug in the power cord so when the car turns on
the camera turns on. And you could see that aimed perfect, I just need to get a
memory card for this. And we'll run the wires across the headliner behind the
a pillar trim
and down the same way we ran the visor lights. And that's all there is to it
a nice, clean, quick install. You can't even see it. So let's move on to our next step, the
rear light bar. Now our rear light bar is going to be mounted right back here and
gonna look something like this. It will right into here so we had to get to this deck
cover here because this is just cardboard. So we want to be able to put a
bolt through here with big washers so it supports it.
Our cables gonna be running on the passenger side because the passenger
side has a special tunnel for the cables. This plastic tunnel here, that all the cables run through.
That's why we're picking the passenger side to run the wires to the front. So in order to get
to the back here we're gonna have to remove the seats. The seat bottom is
really easy to pull out. You just lift up from the front and you can pull it out. Now
getting this part of the seat out ida little bit more of a pain. The seat belt have to get undone.
So we'll take off the passenger side seat belt first. This is an eighteen millimeter.
There we go take the belt off and now the seat bracket is loose. So let's remove the
bowl from the drivers side. And the the back of the seat lifts right out just like so.
So toget this deck lid off we need to get these dreaded Christmas tree clips off.
and to do this I'm using a panel clip pliers, which work awesome. I always used to
break these clips but now they pop right out
Look at that, no damage at all. So let's do the other side too. So now we're gonna take this screw,
which is going to go in from the top. And on the underside we're going to use a
large washer which is gonna help mount it securely by distributing any forces on
the light bar over a large area since this is only cardboard. So this whole
light bar back here will be strongly secured. Now I put a piece of tape on the
glass indicating the middle, so we could center our traffic advisor there has to
be an even a even amount lights on each side for it to be centered and there are 123
and 123 lights on each side. Now let's just make sure there's nothing under the rear
deck before we drill. It looks good
good but there's a speaker that we need to be careful with. Now we can drill
holes using the light bar brackets as a guide. Now we can add our screws to hold in
place so we can drill the other side.
Beautiful!
and the bolts side right in. Now i'm piece of wood approach this deck up and
i'm taking down some nuts on those bolts that it will hold it in place and this is
what it looks like all tighten down. Now let's go tighten down the other side
That's one tightened and two tightend. We don't need this anymore. So lets put
these two clips back in place. That's one that's two. I want to snake this wire behind the
behind the plastic panel here to hide it. And that looks real clean and I'll do this the whole way
down to the floor. And now I'm just tucking the wire out of sight. now if you
look under the carpet here on the passenger side there's a hidden tube to
run wires through. But, our way has a big cigarette lighter adapter on it, so it's
cut that off since we're not using it. and will run the wire all the way to the
front. Just snake the wire through here unitl won't go anymore. At the front
here's our wire and we can pull it the rest of the way through. So there we go
the wire runs neatly tucked away down the side here, through the tube from the
rear, to the front the car. Now to get the seat back in and make sure the middle
seat belt is over the seat just like that otherwise you can't use that seat belt.
And if we look behind the seat there's a spot the clip the seat in
place I just need to get it to hook.
There we go and I'll do the same for the other side. Now we need tighten down the nut
that holds the seat belt in. Whenever you tighten down nuts or bolts for
the seat belt make sure you torque them. Just like so. Both sides get torqued to 70
foot-pounds. And that's secured. Now we can install our seat and the cushion slides
right into these two clips. So close good and good. I really had to put some backbone
into the seat cushion but it's in. Alright that looks awesome we got it
wired up nice and neat,the seat is back in, the wiring is all running up to here,
and our dash cam and visor lights are installed. Now we have some stuff at the
front of the car. Wen nned install and that stuff is a light bar and some mini
LEDs. I'm taking up the siren because it's going to be in the way of our light bar.
Which goes right behind the grill just like that. Now i'm going to mark the holes
for the light bar mount with a marker there's one, we'llgo to the other side
and here's the other. Now we can remove the light bar to drill the holes.
This bit perfectly in the light bar mounting hole, so let's get drilling. It's gonna be tough
to get the drilling here because it's so tight. So instead remember to work with
the car let's take this grill out. Now we have all the space we need.
Now let's see how good of a job we did aligning this.
Beautiful. I'm going to hand screw this in here to align this side. And the other side lines up too. Great
Now we can snug down these screws. Good and good. So with out light bar in the way we need a new place
to mount the siren. I'm thinking right off to the side here will be perfecy, so it's mark up
the holes to drill. I'm gonna make that a little bit darker just because you could
barely see it and now its drill them out.
Now i'm gonna moun the siren in place. It's tight in here but let's get these bolts in and the nut on.
Can't forget about the bottom one. Man that is tight. Got it. So with the siren in
place to better access to both from down here we're going to remove the headlight.
You saw me do this in the first episode and it's pretty simple just got to
remove these clips. That was a tough one.
Now the headlight comes right out. Now we have easy access to tighten the bolts.
And now the siren is secured in its new location. it's a good thing that we are
relocating the siren so the siren isn't blocking the radiator. And since we have
a light bar front now we don't want any more air blocked, so moving this off to the side
worked out nicely.
Okay now let's get this headlight back in place and slide in the two clips now. Before I put the
grow back on let's install the mini LEDs. So these lights have a bracket which
comes beet, you could see right here it's bent. But we want to look like this where it's
nice and flat so I'm gonna bend over the brackets so they're flat, just like so.
That way when we mount them the the lights will sit flat against the bumper. Now under the Crown
Vic you could see the bumper already has holes. So i'm going to use these holes and I'm gonna
I'll align the bumber hole with the light bracket hole and then I'll just drill the
other side. This way each side will be even.They'll be evenly spaced on this
side and they'll be evenly spaced on the other side and I didn't even have to use
a ruler. I'm going to use these brackets that came with the lights and cut them
with tin snips to make my own washers. Would you look at that. So let's get the
light in place on one side, bolt it in add a homemade washer then a lock washer to
prevent this nut from unscrewing due to vibration.
Let's drill the other side.
And bolt that in too. Make sure it's nice and snug. Good!
That's what each light will look like. Now gonna put one right next to it.
Tighten that up, drill a hole and good. Now the other side will look just like this and
through the magic of editing we got one finished and the other finished.
Beautiful! Check this out. This is gonna look sick all lit up. I got the front
light bar in bottom mini LEDs all mounted up. Next,we need to run some
wires to the center console and build a center console, which will be pretty
sweet because after watching that you can build your own custom center console
in your car. Which actually looks good. I did that in my truck. So we'll be doing
that plus we'll be testing lights on the street in the next episode of Project
Police Interceptor episode 4 so get pumped and stay tuned.