Ok.. i was playing with changing out my tach... and i noticed that it seems liek the only thing making the guages glow orange is the bulbs.. what if we were to put blue or white bulbs in?? has anyone tried this?

 

of course, MacEwen at the top of the page shows yuo the difference with withing halogen and xenon bulbs.. check it out.

 

The bulbs on my 87 T/A were in fact clear/white. It had orange 'condoms' on them, which you can easily remove. I replaced my bulbs with red ones, and painted the needles red as well with a sharpie pen. I think it turned out pretty sweet. Some of you prolly think it’s too much red though…

Don’t have any pics but could take a couple tonight…

 

Please, i would love to see pics!

 

!#%^)$#*!!!

my pics look like $#@$%#@ too blurry to post. I'll take some more tomorrow/today

Sorry 'bout that

 

pictures of what.. orange condoms?


i have a spare guage cluster out of a 89 GTA that i have sitting next to me. im goign to take the 'condoms' off tonight or tomorrow night and if no one else does.. ill get ya some pictures of it. im also gonna try to get some blue lights for it..

 

Don't bother posting pictures of that.

 

just wondering, whats wrong with the orange ones? I think they're sweet.

 

Some of us don't like orange.

 

My 77 lights up white, that is a good thing, i am alergic to orange

 

Yuppers.

I like RED.

I Pefer Blue

I hate Yellow... Yuck...

 

see that is why get rid of the orange condemns

 

 

My 87TA lights up a redish orange color. I think blue would be sweet. I won't ever change it though. I don't care enough about guage color to do that.

 

me neither, i am waiting for all of the bulbs to go out of my dash before i replace any

 

imo, pontiac's were meant to have red dash lighting. mine has the orange condoms on the gauge bulbs, and i'd like to think they are just faded. (check out later 90s bonnevilles, grand ams etc for RED dash lighting) i want to get some xenon or other bright red bulbs.

 

ok does anyone know the difference on macewens site of the two different blue bulbs? how much brighter r the blue led ones opposed to the other ones?
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My camera takes some of the worst dark pictures but here is my speedo, the depth/color of the blue was lost from trying to lighten up the picture to make it visable. I used standard blue glass bulbs bought from the import sectionn at pep boys..

 

hey hey hey its not the import section its called isle 10 and half is the ***** section the other half is real engine dress up like chrome and what not and we also have the edelbrock and holley carbs out there(only empty boxes ) and edelbrock intakes and cams

 

Call it whatever makes you happy... as long as they've got the colored glass bulbs and not the crappy painted ones that turn some puke-azz color after 3 hours..

 

lol

 

I think I am going to keep mine like this,

 

is it just me or does that pictures make everything look like its pink... but i cant wait to get my auto meter super comp gauges and pop in some red LED's with them, that will be nice.

 

My lights are pink. You got a problem with that?

actually, it was the camera, I did a firmware upgrade and it now makes red look red instead of pink.

 

Decided to have some fun with Zepher's interior....

 

blue...

 

green... if ya like it

 

purple? not for me but if ya really want to do it....

 

white leds would look cool. too bad they're pretty expensive

 

the green one looks pretty interesting.

 

did i hear white?

 

they different colors look good, however i will stick with the stock colors.

 

*** knows that swtiching to a different color bulb adds like 8 horses!!! LOL

Though... I too think the white does look the best...

 

The white reminds me of my 96 Camaro I used to have. I may have to try pulling off the condoms and seeing how it looks.

 

how difficult is it to change out the gauge lights?

 

I find red even more annoying - only because I don't like that color. Even though Blue is my favorite color - I think it can be annoying sometime if it is not the right kind of shade. I think white will be best for me since I have never gotten tired of white lights.

 

I think changing the color of the gauge cluster lights can make the interior of a car look awesome at night, such as Zepher's. But thats just my opinion

 

I love the blue one. That color is very soothing to my eye. Everything I own has blue in it somewhere.

 

yeah im changing all my gauge lights over to blue when i get the bulbs for xmas.....it will be nice cuz it will match my headunit.....im gettin the cheaper blue ones from macewen's site......does anyone know what the difference is between the more and less expensive blue bulbs?

 

The blue will match my head unit too. I hate it when colors aren't coordinated.

 

well it took me 2 days to change the color of my guages to blue.some trans ams have orange backlightin in the gauges or the bulbs have the orange condoms.luckily mine had the condoms and were easily removed and replaced with xenon blue bulbs.these bulbs are damn bright for the money but barely changed the orange to blue at all,they are more a bright *** white with blue tint.only problem after that was my needles,they were still orange.so i took them off.got paint thinner and took the orange paint off the bottom of the needles.then i put a thin stripe of blue paint on the needle,only on the bottom where they are flat,if u put too much it wont light up at all(found that out the hard way) after reassembly and tried them at night...i wanted every other bulb blue because it was soo nice and light up perfect.sadly my car was totalled in a accident and didnt get a chance to take pics.but its worth it for guys who want to change lil things that make a difference on their dash.its alot cheaper,2 bucks for model paint,a thin brush,small jar of paint thinner,some brighter bulbs and then labour.i only had compliments on it since.enjoy

 

post a pic of your guages 86White.:rockon:

 

i would post pics but as i stated before, not long after i did all of that my car was hit and has been sent to the scrapyard heaven.for now im driving my 86 vw golf winter beater as my daily .i made sure i took the bulbs though.they are worth the money.people think that its soo hard to change the colors and that its not worth the effort but to me every little detail counts and make the car more unique.and if you are worried about breaking the needles while taking them out jus have some good super glue around and stick back on.i broke one needle off of the base and glued it back.its not a big pain to do jus take your time.and always go in and out of the car,put the cluster in and turn on the lights and see where some paint should come off or go on to the needles and make them perfect.the only tricky part with my cluster was settin my gas and oil back to the right spots.but a good full tank and knowing where ur oil pressure sits when warm and idling and thats it.reassemble the dash and enjoy.

 

What about earlier style guages. Would switching bulbs be any different?