Anyone got any of these? Some white face HVAC faces....if so I'd like to see some? Im thinking about getting some to go with my white face gauges.

thanks

 

Funny that you mentioned it... I actually saw some of those on ebay for sale a while back... the person selling them may still have them for sale... sorry I don't have more info for you.

 

Yeah I know they are Ebay, I was just wanting to see some of them installed.


thanks though.....

 

i bought both the hvac and shifter ones off of ebay....they are nice but the light does not shine through it like the black one.....i gotta do something about that.....ill snap some pics of it tomorrow for u

 

So when the white faces are on you cant see the HVAC at night? Like you can with the regular black face? well that sucs!

No light shines thru?

 

no light.......i was thinking about bringing the light from behind it up and cutting a sliver out of the trim so it shins down on the hvac.....and put a blue bulb in it

 

Try this,
Ive been thinking bout it but Im not going to buy them just to try it out but
since you already have the faces, take the first panel off the HVAC, its the one with the writing on it, thats the one that black, behind it will be another panel or actually a piece of thin metal, maybe if you can cut a piece of plexi glass or something the same size as the black panel and then put that back on and then put the White HVAC face on it....the reason no light shines thru is because that one piece is black..when you take it apart you'll see what Im taking about...


if you do something like this then you can always go back to black without messin that peice up by cutting a sliver out of it...



let me know what you think...

 

sounds good....but the reason why the light doesnt show through is because the white face overlay is solid...where the words are is not transparents....

 

yeah I know but wont light be able to shine thru it though if you remove the piece im talkin about out?

 

im not too sure.....the paper is pretty solid.....maybe ill check it out tomorrow.....i gotta take my gauges all apart...again...because my heat made me darn white face speedo bubble up again so it dont work....

 

thats cool! take me some pictures of them tomorrow installed so I can see what they look like even if the light problem isnt fixed.

thanks man!

 

isnt there a bulb right over the hvac panel in that center button panel? i think that should be enough to light it up at night, maybe throw in a brighter bulb.

 

Wishmaster's87IROC: STOP IT, your car looks perfect outside AND inside. :hail: Your interior is CLEAN.

I was wondering, has your car settled any yet? Can you post some pics of it if it settles quite a bit? Thanks.

 

Yeah maybe your right...LOL.....Im just I guess addicted to finding stuff to do to it...Myabe I should start buying some power..or new tires...
I did buy some rear GTS blackouts for it. Then Im going to buy some front blackouts. Then the outside will be done. I guess. Whoops, oh yeah I do want to get the windows tinted too.

No, the car really hasnt dropped any I dont think. I have'nt driven it that much since I put the springs in plus the tires are so far gone that just adds to the fender gap where there should be tire tread, you know what I mean?

this picture was just taken on the 5th of this month after I pulled it out from the garage to wash it after putting in the shifter and ram air boxes. Then I pullud it back in and covered it back up.

 

well i mean the white faces do look 10 times better then the black ones and they really wouldnt set u back at all.....i got them both together for 10 bucks

 

how about this.... make our own whiteface Hvac and shifter overlay, ill make them out of transparent paper... ill find a way to put white on it maybe buy a special carterige and ill send them out to you guys???

 

wow, really?! that would be sweet of u! i tried taking out the hvac today and it really didnt want to come out and i didnt want to yank on it and break it.....so i didnt find the bulb....and i took some pics of it too.....here they are

 

heres another.....see it looks great in the daytime....but at night there is no light....

 

I made white HVAC overlays about a year ago. I had planned to have a bunch of them made up for sales, but shortly after I made them they started popping up on ebay so I didn't bother.
I did however get one made for myself.

I made the layout in photoshop and then sent it off to a company and had them screen print it on a sticker and then lazer cut it, so that I could just glue it on top of the stock black piece.
I've noticed that a lot of the ones that are available on ebay are made with a lot of colors etc. - but I wanted mine to be identical to the stock one, only in white.

Now, this is the clue:
If you cut it exactly like the black piece, you will get the exact same light as you had before. The black piece is a metal piece that the light does not shine through. However, it is mounted on a piece of plastic that lets the light through - but as long as you cut it the same way, the light will be fine.
Look at the pic below and you will see what I mean. The areas marked in red are the only places where light comes through (note: the white piece is NOT the actual piece - only a template printed out on regular paper):
(please excuse the pic size!)



Here is the overall look together with white gauges and white shifter overlay:




Here is a closer shot of the overlay in place:





Hope that helps!


Ken

 

Hey wishmaster what brand is that steering wheel and where did you get it?

 

hmm... not too shabby man. ill get to looking in on what i can do in a few months. im gonan make a trip to the local junkyard and pick up a few things(4th gen mirrors, hvac, shifter/ashtray thingy, headliner) and ill start playing with them as much as i can, if i find a successful way to make these ill send them out to you guys i dont mind. besides they cant cost more then a regular stamp now can they?

 

Camarokid01,
its just a Grant Signature series wheel #773 you can get them at any Auto Zone. I just went ahead and got a "BowTie" horn button . I didnt like the G/T buton that came with it, made me feel like it was made for a Mustang or something.

 

i got them pedals u got at autozone too 19buck special... lol was the wheel hard to install?? how much did it run you?

 

bubbakutz, I wonder if you take the black part off like I did and then put the overlays on there, do you think the light would shine thru then? How thick are the ones that you got? if you hold them up to the lite does it shine thru?


Hamspiced, I think I paid $49...I cant remember and then the horn button was $20....no it wasnt hard at all to install...I then turned around and sold my steering wheel so I actually made some money. I dont plan on selling my car so I coulds care less about the stock parts...LOL

 

what all was the process of removing the old and installing the new, send me a pm so i dont ruin this thread

 

um the thickness is about the same as the gauge overlays.....so i dont think that light will shine through.......hmmm i didnt know that they black one is like that.....wonder if mine is different??

 

i want i want i want!!!!!!

 

hamspiced...hey man....i was wondering did u ever get around to makin up that white hvac?

 

I got one of the overlays from the ebay auction (what... $8 or something - well worth my time) and have it in my car. I also had my avatar added in (very small) where the word "fan" usually sits to add just another bit of "custom". My light shines through fairly well AND I have a light that shines down on it from that ledge just above. I have ZERO problems seeing it at night. I'll try to get some night pix this weekend.

S.

 

if you want to save me some time scan up the overlay and send it to me.

 

i would but i dont have a scanner

 

I sent you one I had...

 

did u end up doing anything wishmaster?

 

Naw....I ended up keepin the black face......I just printed one on paper to see what it would look like and it added to much white to the interior for my taste...I like the black and gloomy look on the inside....LOL

 

Here's a couple pix of mine:

 

...and the second one.

 

That looks pretty sweet! How did you get the avatar added in? Asked the guy to do it for ya?

 

we must have got the same ebay ones.....although i dont understand how the light shows through urs????

 

Yeah, I sent him the jpg and asked him to throw it in there for me. I like it.

S.

 

It's not real bright or anything but I can definitely see it at night. On top of that I've got the light in the little shelf above it shining down. I'll try to snap a decent pic tonight once it's dark.

S.

 

the only light that shines through....its bearly enough to call light....comes out where the sliding ***** are......and the little light above isnt worth a damn in my car....i cant see it at all

 

*yawn* been there done that. In matter of fact I think that I was first to do this years ago..

BTW I have PSD file if y'all want it. Just e-mail or PM me.

Kat

 

Heres how it looks during the day

Kat

 

Night.

Kat

 

Oh and yes I can read the lettering at night I've since changed it to a blue blub since that pic was taken (Dec 2000) and the white is a peice of sheet metal painted white

Kat

 

scauffiel....yeah u and i have the same ones......did u do anything different or did u just put it on?

 

Kat...YGPM

Couldn't you take the black part off and add an ovelrlay to the back of the clear plastic cut out exactly like the black one? In this image, make a white overlay that exactly matches the black, and add it to the back of the clear plastic?

grr..can't add image to edit, next post wil have the image that was posted above.

You would of course have to take off the white writting on the front plastic and place the prefered color on the white piece you put on.

 

here

 

that black part comes off?? i thought it was all one piece

 

I just busted out a glue stick and slapped it on. Of course, I forgot to take pix last night, so hopefully I'll remember tonight.

S.