PDA

View Full Version : Blue!

Impulse
11-21-2001, 03:37 PM
Just got my LEDs in the mail today. Can't wait to turn my dash blue :)

http://wsphotofews.excite.com/037/Rb/cP/xL/cF34794.jpg
coOOlcelica
11-21-2001, 05:15 PM
cool...post some pic when you are done!!!
Impulse
11-24-2001, 02:56 PM
Finally got everything installed. Take a look!

http://wsphotofews.excite.com/014/Qa/pu/SG/Ez85773.jpg
po9i
11-24-2001, 04:29 PM
how does that look in the day?
Impulse
11-24-2001, 04:34 PM
The guages are white with blue numbers and the gas/temp guage is kinda dim in the sun but its readable.
Takeoff
11-24-2001, 04:46 PM
I wish I had the time and patience to do that. It is a really cool mod. Nice to see what I wanna do in the future.
scotty01
11-24-2001, 04:58 PM
Holy fack that looks sweet, I got all my stuff on order! :eek:
Vincent Vega
11-24-2001, 05:09 PM
It looks really cool Impulse. How long did it take you to have the job done? Is it complicated to do that?
Impulse
11-24-2001, 05:28 PM
Took me about 3 hours total from taking the guage cluster out to having it all wired up and put back in the car. It was pretty easy to do actually.

I used 6 of the large needle LEDs from import intelligence. One for each needle and 4 for under the gas/temp LCD. The reverse indiglo guages i got from boostoptions a while back.

I need to take the needles of and recalibrate my guages though since i'm about 10 mph off now. While they're off, I'm gonna paint the back of the needles with liquid paper or some white paint so they look blue all the way across them since right now they are just clear and the blue light only shows at the ends of the needles.

I'm very happy overall. Looks very cool at night :).
coOOlcelica
11-24-2001, 08:15 PM
damn that looks nice!!!!!!!
po9i
11-25-2001, 06:19 AM
did you have to solder anything for the gas guage??
Impulse
11-25-2001, 06:33 AM
Nope, no soldering required. You do have to pull the LCD off of the circuit board though. It sits on a plastic piece with four tabs that hold it in place. I just had to be very careful pulling it off as to not crack the LCD or bend any of the pins.

After it was off, I just put electrical tape over the orange LEDs under it and placed the four large needle LEDs on top of the tape and put the LCD back in place.

I wired the LEDs to the 12V switched wire that runs to the clock (its the gray one on the connector at the clock.)