305Tiger

Actually, I just noticed that I took that pic right before I turned my car off, after I had turned the parking light dimmer switch all the way down. I'll have to take another pic tonight after I get home from school WITH the needles lit. It's gonna be a sweet pic, so get ready to drool!
-G

redcamaro83

hey for anyone doing leds u might want to try "flux" aka wide angles for the regular dash.
like these
they are 10k mcd and very wide angle if u can get them to fit
eBay: 100p ROUND HEAD BLUE FLUX LED10,000mcd free resistors (item 120015498364 end time Aug-06-06 11:30:00 PDT)

Rockyd

here is a pic of my guages i dropped in from ebay for $1.99 oh yeah
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2151423

redcamaro83

those are hot pimpin u used led 194 bulbs?

Heckler

Has anyone changed out the lights in the Shift console?

Rockyd

mine are actual slip in gauges i got them for $1.99 on ebay some sale i guess ive seen them on there for about 30 bucks now and the are ver nice i luv them easy hook up and ive had them a little over a yr now i need to pul them off again and paint the needles red and you do not have to pull the needls off to put the gauges on. like i said there on ebay and easy to put in


ps i have changed my light in my center console not much of a difference there so

vorgath

yeah i got the same gauge faces, awesome, but i messed up when installing them, the needle on my speedometer only moves up to 62 mph now

Sassy8722

Could someone tell me what size I would need for my 89 RS? I want the violet ones. The dash lights are already purple (as well as the inside turn signal), but I want the dash lights to be brighter, and these look awesome!

84 1LE

iTrader: (9)

Yes

CobraBytez

So, I was looking at these, they have a very high MCD (60,000), but I don't know if they'll work in my car. I have an '88 firebird...Does the fact that they're 10mm mean anything to me? Do I need smaller? Bigger? Something entirely different..?

eBay: 50 X 10mm SUPER BRIGHT BLUE LED 60,000mcd FREE RESISTOR (item 120028065197 end time Oct-04-06 20:35:54 PDT)

Thanks!

84 1LE

iTrader: (9)

10mm is about right(around 1/4 dia.).Thats what im using on my car.Although mine are the inverted lense type.

cdoyle

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One thing you have to watch out for with LEDs and brightness is the viewing angle. A lot of times, sellers of LEDs will say that it has this really high MCD, but the LEDS also have a very narrow viewing angle. The ones you linked to have a 12 degree viewing angle. So using something like that in a instrument cluster gets tricky and might cause a lot of hot spots. Best best for the most even light is to find wider viewing angle LEDs.

I also noticed that the LEDs you link to only have a 20ma max current draw. Another give away that they are narrowing the viewing angle to get the brightness.

daddydrake

I installed red 9-led 194 bulbs in my instrument panel, floor, reading light, and tag light. And, 44mm festoon in my dome from superbrightleds.com, in my '85 Firebird. It was super easy and looks GREAT!!!

It was all direct plug, no mod. whatsoever. All I did was take off the face of the intrument panel and pull the gauges out individually (non-cluster in 85), except for the speedo (I just loosened the face and had to play "Operation w/ a pair of needle nose).

It looks so fresh. And all I spent was about $34 shipped for the bulbs and an hour of my time. This has to be the best/cheapest/easiest customization that you can do to your bird/maro. If I can do it, anyone can.

The lights look kinda orange in the pictures, but believe me they are very red.

The next thing I'm gonna do is put two 9-led festoons in my plexi-glass faced speaker box. Even more red!!!!!! Gotta find the sockets and a switch (probably Auto Zone), and just run the power off my amp. (any experienced suggestions?)

pics:
http://www.foresightproductions.com/.../interior3.jpg

http://www.foresightproductions.com/...ace/gauges.jpg

soundmaster4023

hey man that is awsome ..... ive been wanten to do that but i never new you could..... new to the whole customization thing..... and the plexi glass.... im about to build a sub box... how are you going to put the leds in there.... are u going to drill holes on the top of the plexi glass....????

zach

CrAzYcUsToM

This looks sweet...I want to try the blacklight ones..Any feedback...

redcamaro83

the uv ones will look very cool most of the colored numbers on are guages are uv reactive

CrAzYcUsToM

Sounds like a plan....lol...Thanks for the fast response

vorgath

84 1LE, how did you get the shift console looking that way ? White plastic rather than the yellow one I take it ? Blue tinted plexi glass piece .. and a bright LED ??

Any more details ?

84 1LE

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The shift window is from a berlinetta.There was a clear plastic lense that went behind the shift indicator window(which is really a thin plastic film).This plastic lense is pretty thick(too thick for non-berli shift plate).So i just made my own lense of the same dimensions, but a little thinner(same thickness as my 84 Zs stock lense/shift window deal.I only used the shift ind from the berli.Eveything else is stock for an 84 camaro(non-berli).As for the lighting its just a super white LED(10mm).Same as the ones in the rest of the interior.The xtra bluish-ness is due to the berlinettas shift indicator(black background & white letters with blue dye behind letters(stock).So it already had a blue look to it.The LED(which gives off a slight blue illumination just enhances the look.I really like it though.It goes with the pioneer deck units OEL display & on my sportster Replay unit.

f4te

alright... i have a 1991 camaro RS...

the little light in my guages went out... so now i have nothing...


i was wanting to replace it with the LED lights you guys were talking about but i have no idea what size or where to get them...

if someone could please help me out, that would be amazing.

thanks

-Teddy

f4te

hey... so, i was looking at your http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2151423/1 page and i knoticed that we have the exact same car...

i have a quick question for you. how did you get the guages like that? where did you buy them, what size LED's ect. ect.

thank you

-Teddy
contact me via e-mail
TedRSchroeder@yahoo.com

or myspace
www.myspace.com/f4te

ewwewwnotme

I want to do the LEDs in my dash. I see they now offer a 9 LED bulb here
http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...gi?product=CAR
Will that fit? I see the 6 fits but I was just wondering about the 9. Plus the 9 has to be alot brighter. I aslo want to get these white faced gauges.
http://www.whitegauges.net/whitegaug...productsID=941

camaro91boy

black car? go red looks cool look up www.besthongkong.com i bought 20 blue led bulet tip 194 buls for 17 some odd dollars total if i can ever get my dash to work then i can put them in but they are ten times brighter.
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the turn signal bulbs are hard but the others are all 194 www.besthongkong.com

look for the bullet tip led bulb they are cheap and realy bright.

camaro91boy

EWWEWWWNOTME bad idea on the white face gauges they look bad and don't always fit exactly. plus they have a wierd tint in the numbers that block out the led light look. ill never buy another one they ruined my dash and now i can't fix it.

Purple 92 SS

Does anyone have photos of RED led illumination in a 91-92 Camaro dash cluster? I would like to try this, but would like to see what yall have used and of course photos of it. There are 4 bulbs that need changed i know, but what ones would be bright enough, and what not. Thanks in advance.

camaro91boy

Hey purple 92 ss got your message,
try that site that i quoted and look for any thing with wide bulb (or what the guys at besthonkkong told me) was to try they're new 5 chip 194 bulb (these are the size bulb that camaro uses alot)
my only complain about the bullet tip is that at night they don't show up until pitch black. other than that everything has a blue halo. the problem is that my bulbs are not wide angle so the light didn't disperse through the plexi glass light up part. but it dose look cool. all of the lights are blue in my car except the little yellow led above the ac controls. i cant figure out how to get to it with out breaking something.

camaro91boy

did you ever find out what led 's they used or was it just the glow gauge kit?

89CamaroLover

I just lit mine up red about 2 weeks ago, I did it for around $20 and its twice as bright as the stock lights, However I used 2000mcd leds and I had to use 2 wired in parallel, a slight pain so you may want to get a higher mcd than that, but all is explained in the tech article. But any idiot with a soldering iron can do it, it took me about 3 hours start to finish. But speaking of soldering irons don't use a gun, I bought one for this project because I thought it'd make it easier than my trusty iron, but couldn't get the darn thing in there. Just my advice from my experience. I plan on putting some more red leds elsewhere inside my car in the near future, I am thinking elsewhere in the dash, in the speakers (non stock speaker covers), door panels, under the dash, light up the back seats a little, I also have a nifty idea with a three way switch to make the dome light switch between red and white light.

camaro91boy

want to see some cool lights?
check out my cardomain page.

under search put in camaro91boy and click on the camaro.
scroll all the way towards the bottom.
let me know what ya think.

cdoyle

Where did you get your white lettered gauges?

camaro91boy

what white lettered gauges? let me look ill get back with you in a sec.

cdoyle

Your gauges don't have the yellow writing, instead they are white.

camaro91boy

if you are refering to the pic with the painted bezel. that is stock in a v-6 dash after i fried the 0-145 this is all i could find cheap and close by i painted my other needals white instead of orange but i haven't decided if i want to take apart the dash yet to put them in. whats your oppinion?

cdoyle

I don't think I've ever seen a 91/92 style dash with white numbers before.
The yellow numbers make it impossible to change the back lighting color.

I might have to be on the lookout for these, is there a way to get the V6 tach to work right with a V8?

I kinda like how you have it now, with the yellow needles.

camaro91boy

i'm not to sure about the dash out of the three i have only the one is white the others are as you say yellowish but even with those the dash lights up fine the pic with the gauges at the bottom is one of the yellowish dashes and as for the v-6 working with the v-8 they don't the dash picks up the extra two pistons and reads your idle state at 4000 rpms when you hit the throttle the gauge pegs i think if you take a v-8 chip out and swap it with the v-6 dash it might read correctly i haven't tried it because i fried the only v-8 dash.

camaro91boy

oh and i did give you a 5 star rating.spread the word about my car and dads velle. i want them to be rated real good.

Purple 92 SS

well i got my red led's in from superbrightleds.com. I ordered the ones that are 5 led's wide view in RED. I will try to get photos of it soon. I also used these led's for the Shift indication lamp and the AC control lamp. I am VERY pleased at how the brighness came out. It is 1000 times better than the regular led's that i had tried before.

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iTrader: (5)

I see a few differnt ones on that site. can you link to the ones you used?

Purple 92 SS

I can do better than that. Here's a screeen cap of the exact ones i used.




and now folks, sorry for the long delay, but here they are at night, lit up.. hope the photos are good enough for you.

ck50camaro

Here is some awesome light, blows superbrights away

ck50camaro

Yes here you go, lights from http://frickinbrite.com/catalog/index.php

racing geek

iTrader: (5)

Great pictures!! So It would only take a couple hours and about $20?

Titan85

iTrader: (1)

Well, now that this thread is back from the dead, I got a question . The tech article posted in the earlier pages said that the LEDs can not be dimmed with the stock dimmer switch or they will turn off. Is this true for the direct replacement bulbs?

Purple 92 SS

it is true.

however red is so unobtrusive its not needed to be dimmed.. really its not super bright compared to what you think it is in the photos. it looks great, dont get me wrong, but its not like it is hurt your eyes birght.

STEEL

Select LED Color Red Amber White (+ $2.00) Blue (+ $1.00) Green (+ $2.00) UV (+ $1.00)

921-x12 Wedge Base LED bulb
921 Type with 12 LEDs, replaces 194/168/912 wedge base car bulbs
Wide 75 degree beam pattern, non-polarized
measures 1.20 inch long by 0.60 inch diameter
$ 3.95


Would these work? I have a 1991 Camaro RS, teal, and my dome lights are in my mirror, can I change these to LED as well? Just give the entire car a nice green glow....

Purple 92 SS

they may, but the reason i went with wide angle was for the guages, the area inside the cluster needs to be wide anle bulbs, because if not it wont reflect bright enough, or so is my experience. those green may work for stuff outside the cluser.. its up to you to try it.

89CamaroLover

Its really easy to follow the instructions in the tech articles
I did mine red, one of the first things I did to my car, they are brighter than stock even being red. I got my led's off ebay for really cheap. I did two led's per socket. I also used the metallic chrome spray paint on the back of the plate, I originally just left it blue, wasn't bright enough though, the difference was night and day. I will try to post some pics of mine

BluFBdy

iTrader: (1)

so wait, how do you install the ones off os superbrightleds.com? same as in the tech article? Can i get some info on this? I'm changing my instrument panel with a 145 soon and i may as well kill 2 things at once

irishhockey34

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irishhockey34

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Heres a quick guide to the install with the 5 LED conversion from www.superbrightleds.com:

Packaged LEDs - 11 Red and 2 Amber for Side Markers:


Take off all nessecary panels:


Take off shifter **** and center trim, replace bulbs in shifter plate and heater controls with LEDs:


Do same with all bulbs in instrument cluster and put everything back together.

End result (doesn't do the mod justice, looks 10xs better in real life):