#37718, "To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......."
I cant find the post or who wanted it so Ill start a new one. I just figured out how to get my camera to take the pics without f ing it up. These are 20 bucks reverse indiglo gauges from ebay and home made indiglo needels using 4 leds and taking out all other facory light from behind the dash. I also am sporting a euro carbon fiber dash
#37719, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 0
That looks sick. I didn't post about it but it's exactly what I want. So instead of the 7 little orange bulbs you used four LED's? And the gauges light up in the same blue? With no modifications to the gauges? Also did you have to remove the needles? TIA
weasle745: and then to top it off, im not even an attractive guy. I look like Millhouse from the Simpsons, cant put on weight if my life depended on it, etc
#37720, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 1
yea man that is tight as all hell...do u have a write up on this? which spots did u put the bulbs in on the back and which ones now have no bulbs in them? and those gauges are the the ones that go over the stock gauges right? TIA
#37721, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 2
Would you say these are the same as the ones you have? If so I will order them cause I have gone without the cobalt blue guages for too long now. Or do you remember the seller you bought them from? TIA.Later.
weasle745: and then to top it off, im not even an attractive guy. I look like Millhouse from the Simpsons, cant put on weight if my life depended on it, etc
#37723, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 4
i made mine like hondahater21 did. turned out pretty good too. instead of paying 80-100 for the importintelligence ones, i only paid about 20 for all the stuff and you can't tell the difference
#37726, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 7
yup I wana be a auto. Actualy It was the only way I sould get a carbonfiber one cheap instead of paying 130 for it. ebay wont load at all now so I cant tell you if it is or not.
Now for a writeup- do a search and you will hopefully find a link to a site that will show what im about to explain......
go to my site and you will see the type of leds you will need to buy and how to hook them up. next you will need to get your dash apart. take off the black trim and the gaugues. Now remove the clear part and then a black part. Now your almost there. Now a hint, you will have to take your needles off but you wont put them on rite, so make sure you have a full tank of gas and your car is cooled down all the way so when you put your needles back on you know they are rite. Ok carefully pull of on the needles, you may need to use a small screwdriver. once off you will need to remove the stock overlays, for the speedo and tac are just glued on and the fuel and temp are screwd on.now you will beable to see all the stock goodie. There should be 7 lights twist to take them out. Now if you saw the site you can understand this part better. Now the LED have a round top and on the inside of the led is the fillament that lights it up. You are going to carefully sand the round part flat up to the filament. if you dont do that the needles will get stuck on them. next use a dremel to make a small hole in the clear plastic next to needle location on the left. when making the hole make sure not to interfeer with the odomiter or any thing else in the way. with the hole made super glue the led in the hole and rout the wire threw the factory light holes. Now with the needles, you can sand the back down, use a razor and I have hear of useing mineral spirts but never tryed it to take the orange off. To paint the needle you can use n e color, but remember that sertain colors will work better. I used a blue sharpe to paint ime and it works the best. damn this is long isnt it? Ok now you have 2 choices, you can put on the factory overlays on and then the needles and then you indiglos orchange you factory gauges to blue instead of orange. to do that you will need to take sand paper and sand the backs off and it ill take the orange off. Hold it up to the light and you will see how it is coming off. To make them glow you will need to take leds and put them in your factory holes. But at $6 a led it would be cheaper to buy indiglos. Now screw on the stock overlays and glue them if you need to. To get the needles on right it tricky. the gas on just put it on where it was at, hopefully full. now the temp, put it on cold and the speed and tack on 0. now put the cluster on the car, dont put the trim on ar n e thing and turn the car on, the needles will move and you will prob be driveing at 54 mph and 5500 rpm. to fix that you will know what you idel at so take that needle off with the car on and put it on the proper rpm, the speed you will have to make sure its rite with a freind and keep tryin. I got pulled over by a cop and it was only off by 1 mph this way. when done take it off and reasemble the cluster and wire the leds to anything you want like the lights and all. and you are done!
that was longer than I thought? This took me 2 hours to do, but I had no clue on what i was doing. any more Qs?
#37727, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 8
i realize this isnt exactly the same as the above lighting process, but this is what i did and i know some of you know about it.. and i finally managed to do a decent writeup awhile back.. so enjoy.. and well i dont mean to steal the thread, but oh well.
#37728, "RE: To whoever wanted to see reverse indiglow gagues and indiglow needels......." In response to Reply # 9
off topic i know but HondaHater21, blinker fluid change write up is funny as hell. just seeing it made me laugh. reminds me of high school auto theory maintenance, some kid (baked out of his skull) asked the teacher "Mr. G, where does the blinker fluid go?"
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