anyone changed the color of their gauge needles have pics???im interested in diff. color needles, both lit (at night) and not lit (in day).

im thinking of blue needles (with gauges left stock firebird orange), but am unsure of how it would look during the day.

 

When I did my gauges, I considered blue, but went with red. I may change them someday. Heres a daytime pic:

 

At night:

(BTW- I know the voltage gauge is crooked, I fixed it though )

 

where did you get those overlays?

 

Your volt gauge is crooked.

 

How about clear? These are not in my car right now, I still need to get around to installing this cluster. I scraped all the orange paint off the back of the needles with an xacto, then polished them to make them super clear.

 

Tach

 

It is pretty cool to have a 150 mph speedo instead of the 140, isn't it?

 

i can't exactly remember the site name but there is a site out there where you can buy needles that have little LED lights in them or something but they are clear during the day and when you light them up the glow kinda like neon color of what ever color you want they got blue, red, i think green what ever color you want them to glow i think they got it. it's like some import site but i thought they were pretty cool.

 

hey Metallicamarors whats up whit the voltage gauge. It doesnt appear to be straight

 

Anyone change the color of the gauge cluster lights on a Trans Am? How hard is it? Aren't the bulbs just 194? I can't stand that orange color and wanted to go with a different color.

 

i've wanted to do this too for a long time i just have been to lazy to take apart the gauge culster and switch the bulbs over.

yey this is my 100th post!!!

 

Are the bulbs themselves the orange color is the their a color backing that the bulbs are behind to give them color? I know in my dad's Volvo the bulbs are behind a thin green plastic sheet that gives the color we are used to seeing in gauge clusters. Has anyone changed the color of the gauge cluster lights?

 

i wish i knew hey maybe i'll take it apart tonight and look into that but i might be to busy posting because i got reset LOL!

 

I changed the lights in my gauges in my Firebird once. To get the orangish/reddish color the bulbs have little plastic covers on them that come right off. I had blue bulbs in there once but I guess I had cheap ones because the blue color faded after awhile. I will soon try again.

~Josh~

 

did you touch the bulbs with your fingers because i know that the natural oil that your body produces rubs off from you fingers to the bulb and causes the color to be almost eattin away from the bulb i know this because my overhead light keeps fadeing because i replace the colored bulb with my fingers my suggestion next time wear rubber gloves or something to keep your fingers from touching the bulb.

 

i have heard about the oils from fingers causing bulbs to burn too hot, and possibly burning out, but i dont think that is why the color is fading form his. that seems more likely because he probably had bulbs that were "painted" rather than actual solid colored glass.

as for the website with the led needle kits...i have seen it, it is www.importintelligence.com they are very cool, but i wont get them. i just want to change the color of the needle.

ward...thanks for the pics...i used them to photoshop some different needle colors like i want....would love to hear how yours look lit after you install them.

would still love to see some more actual pics....

 

Thanks for the suggestion transam305, I think next time around I might try to go for the LEDs. Whenever I can find time between work, classes, and studying!

~Josh~

 

Oh, I forgot to mention. I also found a site for the LED Needles except this site is to make them yourself. I am more for making them myself.

~Josh~LED Needles (DIY)

 

i think the orange intelliglow LED needles from importintelligence would look hella sweet with the orange guage color also the DIY needles look sweet too!

 

mw66nova- I downloaded the files from www.mikekey.net and changed them a lil. I added the logos and changed them to 150 MPH


Scania- Yes, I know the voltage gauge is crooked in the pic. I stated that in my first post. It has been fixed

Sometime, I plan on redoing them again. I think I am going to either keep the red needles and paint the reflective plate so it reflects more of a blue tint, or change to blue needles and put brighter bulbs in.

 

Even the colored glass ones fade after awhile. I bought some for my truck because I got fed up with the fading painted ones. The colored glass ones last a lot longer but in the end fade to green. The best for true color all the time are LEDs http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...gi?product=CAR Check these out

 

EDIT- Nevermind, found the info I need.

If I were to put the single or four led wedge bulbs, said to be replacements for the 194s or 168s in my dash, would it need any more power? I don't want a bunch of LEDs to drain my battery.

 

How many members does it take to change a light bulb....lol

My buddy found a sheet of that plastic that is over the turn signals in blue and over layed each light bulb in his dash. It looks OK but it really dimmed the lights down and kinda clashes with the orange on the gauges. Maybe white gauge would look better with the blue.

On my car I opened up the stock holes and dropped some Auto meters in. It look nice and is usually the first thing people complement me on.

 

is it just me or do white faced gauges remind alot of us of the ricers?

 

Its just you

 

yea, white face guages have been a sign of RWD domestic performance since the late 80's... R1cers took it from us to give them the look of fast.... as with most of them... all show, no go
go look at the berger camaro.. .tell me that is a r1cer... 380hp, the only r1ice you see is in the rear view mirror...

 

i have the white gauge overlays along with the LED mod posted on this site the collor chosen was blue , it looks sweet

 

post some pics of it!

 

i cant seem to get the flash to shut off on my digital camera but when i do ill post some pics

 

am i the only one that read his post near the top that said "I know my voltage meter is crooked" yet we have people saying
your voltage meter is crooked... lol

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i'd like to see some overlays for a 1985 trans am with an 85 mph spedo and 6 grand tach . i hardly ever see overlays for this.

 

darnit....this is NOT a white face gauge post. i don't have them or want them, and if that's what you want to talk about, make anotehr post.

this post regards changing the NEEDLE color. if you wanna waste space by posting about white gauges or ryce, do it somewhere else. i had some good info coming in here before the topic strayed.

not trying to sound like a d i c k, sorry if i do

 

hey, your voltage guage is crooked.. i am getting the cool overlay from www.procarparts.com when you instal them do you have to change the lights in them or what i don't exactly get how you make them blue when your dash lights are orange

 

it all depends on what color of light bulb you have in behind the gauges themselves is what color that the gauge lights (orange) tend to be. anyone ever wonder why GM made the gauges orange in the first place?

 

actually, even the blue or white LEDs draw around 50mA, which isn't much at all, probably not much more than a 194/168 bulb. and the 3000MCD LED's probably give off a lot more light too.

 

So the 12V 1-LED or 12V 4-LED bulbs wouldn't cause problems with my battery?

And yes trans_am_ta_84, for the third time, I know my voltage gauge is crooked

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MetalliCamaroRS
[B]So the 12V 1-LED or 12V 4-LED bulbs wouldn't cause problems with my battery?

Not at all. The power drain is the same, sometimes even less, than the bulbs that are already in your car.

 

and actually, i haven't looked much at 4xLED bulbs (they would just have 4x the current drain of an LED, so 4x 20-50 = 80-200mA, which still isn't much). but my point was that 1 LED is equivalent to some small lightbulbs, especially the 3000MCD blue/white/red ones (3000+ MCD is usually what they use in LED flashlights to give you some context. you can probably get a red one that bright from radio shack for like $2, and blue/white ones seem brighter to the eye than red ones of the same rating)

 

i got those new led lights that look like the ones on semi's (but obviously smaller) and i put them in place of the bulbs in my taillights and they didnt look at all different. the only difference was they didnt light up as much.

 

Here is a pic of my gauges. I used white led's for the lighting and used 2 red led's to make the tach needle red. I think making the needles different colors is pretty easy, all i used were the leds, a dremel, and black tape. Here is a link to the other post for my gauges: https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...ght=Led+Gauges

Here is some pics with the red tach needle:



Here is what I did to do the needle on the back of the tach. BTW this is the 90-92 camaro gauges

 

lookin good, the only way i would do that is if i had a spare gauge cluster to mess around with.. and im pretty sure i saw one at a junkyard the other day...



{lightbulb}

 

that looks sweet nice job... i wish i had the time to do all that but i still have to keep my car intact because it is a daily driver.