88fastgta

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hey i have a 88 trans am and i wanted to know if someone could give me a link to red led gauges that will go into my dash.... which ones do i need for them to light up evenly.... thanks in advance.

JamesC

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You might investigate the following link (I purchased from them when I went to LED's in my overhead console.):

http://www.superbrightleds.com/

JamesC

novafirebirdguy

If you go superbrights you'll need to get bulbs with at least 4 leds in them, preferably with 6. My Firebird actually has bulb cover on the incandescent lights and it's plenty bright and even.
Alex

88fastgta

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thanks... i have another question.... if i get blue leds... what color would my needles light up... cause they are painted orange....

z28 TPI

hmm its hard to say what color they will shine. Did they shine with just regular incandescent bulbs? I did this to my Z not to bad they are with 5mm ebay leds I'm pretty happy with the results. My suggestion is I would get the leds separate that way I can put them where ever I wanted to get the best results. From what i heard try putting foil tape like aluminum tape something shiny between the clear lens and the face plate with the shiny side facing the gauges to try and reflect the light back on the faces of the gauges. I'm gonna try starting the after I get done building my girl back up.

camaro_mann

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this is where i got my led lights plus the white face stickers..
http://www.whitegauges.net/

88fastgta

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i remeber when i had clear bulbs the needles shined orange at night..... it also shined orange with the orange bulb covers but only the needles.... the rest of the gauge was clear/white looking..

blackroc68

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They will light up blue!

z28 TPI

They might light blue...if the brighnest of the surrounding leds is brighter than the needle. Otherwise the needles will glow color that doesn't look to good ever mix orange and blue together its a brown of some sort. I know of mods that make that surrounding light blue but right underneath the gauge needles they put white leds to make the orange needles glow orange. They also paint the whole surrounding area of the cluster black on the inside to help trap the light. I wouldn't recomend on the camaro nor the trans-am clusters though. Another thing you might want to do 88fastgta is to sand off the back side of the gauges to allow the led light though whatever color you are planning. If you were close to me I would tell you to send me your cluster and I would do the work for you, but you're not sorry. I hope this helps you.

88fastgta

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z28 tpi.. i dont have the stock black gauges i have white overlays on my gauges now..... would that help any.. here what my gauges look like now

http://www.whitegauges.net/products/...ce-Gauges.html

also im getting nine of the blue bulbs

http://www.whitegauges.net/products/...ment-bulb.html

these should be alot brighter than the stock bulbs... i hope it lights up blue.....

z28 TPI

Yeah should be cool for what you want to go for. I would still put foil tape on just to reflect the blue light back to the gauges. Looks good.

88fastgta

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where do i put the foil tape at...

novafirebirdguy

Don't know if this will help much but. On an older post about this I remember someone saying that they removed the needles and sanded off the old orange paint and then painted them the back light color (think it was green in their case). I think it'll just depend on how bright your LED's are. As far as foil the only place I could think of would be the back of the cluster "bucket," unlike Camaros, Firebirds have transparent gauge markings instead of being lit from around the gauges. Therefore, I don't think that the foil tape will help all that much.

z28 TPI

Yup sorry. Novafirebirdguy is right I for some reason or another thought you had a camaro i see now that you have a GTA duh me. Anyways the foil tape you could put on the back of the cluster (the white plastic) to reflect the light whatever might be given off back to the gauges themselves. This will make it a bit brighter for you. Again forgive my ignorance sorry I didn't see your GTA.