hey,

i was wondering if anyone had pics of a backlit gauge cluster so i can see what it would look like if i put some led's behind mine. also, i have white face gauges.

thanx

 

LOL now your sounding like a *****, leds in your gauge panel, put the time and money under the hood!!

 

the only reason you think it is a ***** thing to do is because you have never seen the gauges backlit. it looks great.

 

odd that it won't post the image....

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How in the heck is having LEDs in your dash rice? So is my alarm LED rice? What about the LEDs I'll have for monitoring fan functions? BTW, where in Kingwood do you live? I live in Spring, bout 20-25 mins from Kingwood.

 

That does look pretty sweet lit up! Too bad i have auto meter guages for a dash.

 

I guess I'm so use to the 90-92 dashs that I forget about the "tunnel" dash of earlier years, yes that definitly is way better looking, when you all say LEDs i'm thinking chaser lights, blinking borders, glow in the dark needles. But that looks good and professional definitly not what I thought.

 

You gotta do it like this:

<img src="https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/attachment.php?s=&postid=655716">

 

88Camaro, is that your car? If so how did you get that color into the autometer guages? Or are they not autometers? I know of the different color shift lights, they have them for the guages too? Let me know, or anyone for that matter! I'll go check out the web site now to find something, thanks!

 

double post! sorry

 

That looks sooo sweet. I'm getting a little tired of my orange lighting. Gotta get some blue.

 

They sell light bulb covers, is that what you used? It looks just as bright as the LEDs!

 

no not mine, just knew where the pic was, this has been disgussed in ap&det section a bit ago...

 

thanks for the pic. when i get to transition done i will post a pic of it.

 

Check out this site. They have dash bulbs (194's) w/ four led's in them. They have red, amber, blue, and green.

I had the 1157 super-bright red's in the front of my 90. Too bad you can not have red or blue lights on the front..... 120 lesson from a Tempe cop. I hate cops, esp those who do not give warnings.

www.jamstrait.com

 

if i buy those #194 led's will they just replace the #194 lightbulbs that are in there or do i have to do more to make them work?

 

Yeah, that's it. I'm not sure if the dimmers would work on them or not. From what I know about pn juctions and diodes, probably not.

 

The picture posted is actually of my car's dash. It looks much better now with all the needles in red and macewen silver guages instead of white. I do them for $100 if anybody's interested.

 

Hey Odyssey, a while back i had asked if bulb covers were used on the auto meter guages in that pic to get the blue color. Is that what you had used b/c they look pretty good, just like the leds in the dash! I am talking about the guages in the a-pillar. Is that what you used, blue light bulb covers from Auto Meter? Thanks for any help-Bryan

 

No.. I used 4 LEDs in the AutoMeter guage. Pretty simple.... but it requires modification to the original light bulb holder.

 

Sorry i haven't gotten back to ya! Thanks for the response. Any chance you might be able to help me with that? I have my whole guage cluster in a carbon-fiber panel and also an A-pillar. Total i have 8 guages. What type of cost am i looking at if i do it myself, or would you do that type of work too? Thanks for any help. If you would like i could e-mail you. Thanks-Bryan