Blue LED Gauge Conversion

[moondoggz]

Skunk Killer is da man!!!! Check out his awsome work!!!!

my camera is a piece of garbage with the flash off.. but you can see redline no problems...

http://home.cogeco.ca/~celispeed/DCP01161.JPG

http://home.cogeco.ca/~celispeed/DCP01163.JPG

[h0l0grafik]

its not worth risking screwing up a 900 dollar toyota only replaceable circuit board and console

[baNanA_ryCe]

ya it is.....especially if he messes up the cluster, he's gonna pay all 900 for it. it is worth it, but only if you're really in love with your celica.

[GT-S Celica]

on the second pic, why isn't the redline showing? after 6.6k, its just black. so if u do this mod, the redline is not visible during the night time?

moondoggs, how is it in the gauge in the morning? is the blue light bright enough to see in the sun light?

[MidnightKraze]

I want my gauges like that, it's looks sweet.

[bickley]

I had Skunk Killer do mine guages. And yeah, he IS the man. He's a machine...does great work. Oh and the redline is still there. It's just darker at night, but you can still see it. I think moondogzz just needs a better camera.

[Blue Lucifer]

Absolutely Beautiful. How did the orange come off? Was it from using a solvent?

[X-EVIL-X]

mine are red:)
there a lot brighter in real life.
pictures dont do it justice:)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid23/p999c5ecb2d9a0bc6788e3e0c02562fee/fda3bbde.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid23/pd0d91ece792ee47b0282d398aaf06e0a/fda3bbf0.jpg

[Acilec]

He did mine too. Only disappointment is the needles during the day as I got mine done in red. It looks absolutely sweet at night but during the day its plain white with a orange/peach color. But it looks sweet with my APC indiglo gauges. Skunk does a good job. But it is definitely a risk, I saw this first hand with one of my friends here. But thing worked out.

[00CericaRuss]

eh... all of you that are scared of this mod are a bunch of wusses...

I've been taking my gauge cluster apart since dec 2000 (my car was 2 months old) (remember when i made indiglos before they existed for this car?)
and everything's been all gravy thusfar.

I just did someone's gauge cluster last night, w/no problems.
you people are just skuuuuurred!

[Jesse IL]

Hey Russ, what is the best way to get the LED's off the boards? After melting the solder, you can't get rid of it. I was going to pick up a desoldering braid and some fine tweezers. I figure desolder one side while pulling up on the LED with the tweezers. Sound good?

[00CericaRuss]

i have some forceps ( i think ) (sciscor lookin pliers) and what i do is
-grab the LED
-melt the solder on one side, pull gently
-hit up the other side, pull gently
-go back and forth until it just pops off

then after i'm done getting it off, i smooth off the solder on the contact of the circuitboard and add solder if necessary for the new LED

[Stephen G]

Alternatively, go here

http://www.celica-club.co.uk

click on 'modifications', and follow the step-by-step instructions on how to do it :)

[bizzyoz]

yo.. that looks tight.. just wondering if the blur LEDs show up in the day tyme... is it bright enough to see?

[scotty01]

Yes Angus does exceptional work and if some of you guys are scared of modding your car a little, well so be it, but those damn orange lights look f'ugly and I could never go back!!

[moondoggz]

Originally posted by GT-S Celica
moondoggs, how is it in the gauge in the morning? is the blue light bright enough to see in the sun light?

its fine.. no problems at all.... its white in the daytime... and blue at night.

[moondoggz]

Originally posted by Blue Lucifer
Absolutely Beautiful. How did the orange come off? Was it from using a solvent?

he has something that he used.. kinda like a mini dremmel tool to scrape the orange stuff off.. worked wicked!

[moondoggz]

Originally posted by 00CericaRuss
I just did someone's gauge cluster last night, w/no problems.
you people are just skuuuuurred!

Not ma man'g!!!! i got mine done! he originally did my gas / temp mod about 4 months ago... never had a problem since! Toyota service guys even think it looks wicked!

[moondoggz]

Originally posted by bizzyoz
yo.. that looks tight.. just wondering if the blur LEDs show up in the day tyme... is it bright enough to see?

In the daytime its white/light blue.... shows up very nicely.. no problems seeing it at all!

[CloNeGTS]

Looks like I beat ya to it then Jesse!

http://www.clonegts.com/Photos/DSC01000.JPG

I'll learn ya when I get out there in a few weeks. You just get the parts!

[moondoggz]

clone.. thats the setup i used to have.... but I like my current one much better!

[Jesse IL]

Originally posted by CloNeGTS
Looks like I beat ya to it then Jesse!

I'll learn ya when I get out there in a few weeks. You just get the parts!

Son, I'm gonna learn YOU a thing or two when you get here ;)

http://www.ameritech.net/users/diabolus/led.jpg

See that pink roll in the background? That's white EL sheet. I'm gonna learn you what to do with that.

[00CericaRuss]

ahh.. EL.. that's so last year ;)

[GT-S Celica]

russ, i hope u dont **** up my gauge wen u come down to do this thing at s. cali...

[LEDmod]

Originally posted by moondoggz


he has something that he used.. kinda like a mini dremmel tool to scrape the orange stuff off.. worked wicked!

How would the orange look at daytime.. since the orange is gone.......??
Give some more info on getting rid of that orange color...

[moondoggz]

Originally posted by Dooly


How would the orange look at daytime.. since the orange is gone.......??


well.. as you can see.. there is not more orange... by day its white with a tinge of blue...... and by night its a nice blue.