I got tired of my yellow guages that i cant ever seem to see, so i got some blue glow guages. anyone have any experience with these? they were only like 20 bucks so i figured why not. do they work good?

 

i don't have a set, but i was wondering if the company where you got yours sells the glow gauges for the earlier model gauges? like the round gauges not the 90-92 gauges.

 

yeah im pretty sure i saw them there.

 

whats the company? im interested in getting a set. the price is right and the results look pretty damn cool.

 

http://www.mimousa.com/home.asp?dir=products&prod=119

or ebay

here are the reverse glow guages
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/i504-...=p4506.c0.m245

 

Another board member (The Project) has them in his 89 'maro. He said he got his off ebay and you can choose either blue or green glow. PM him for more info.

Pics from his interior build.........

 

Yup those are mine

Got them off ebay. Nice unit. They just go OVER the original face and are held in with the factory clear face. They had a little box (about the size of your thumb nail) with a dial for either glowing blue or green. Mine is the blue.

Very happy with them. Took about 20 min to put in including cleaning the clear face with some plastic polish.

 

did you do anything to the needles? or are they just a dark spot on the blue? im trying to find a way to get the needle to glow too! looks good tho im excited

 

Those gauges look cool.

 

PM "The White Knight". He has some glowing needles that he made (I bleieve he stripped the needle down to clear (from red) and changed a buld to a blue LED). Not 100% sure how though (memory is going). He should be able to explain what he did.

...can't wait to test them out....sometime next year.

 

Here are the ones i got off ebay.

 

Hope that squirt guns not for installing the gauges .

 

How did you know? It actually is for real though. I squirt my cats and my foster brother when im working haha.

Oh and thanks for the infor on The White Knight about his needles i PM'd him. hopefully he can tell me how. i want to get these things in! too bad im not home.

 

Any updates Flyboy? I am interested in buying these for my 1992 camaro, just gonna hope they dont send me a 140 version :P

 

no they are sittin in my room back home along with my grant steering wheel, my billet grill, my racing seats, new headliner and some other stuff that needs to go in. sadly im at a military academy and cant own a car here yet so i have to wait until thanksgiving leave to install it all... if you dont want the 140 what to you want? it goes to 145 lol..

 

I have those same gauges mtflyboy... The po put them in and I'm not a huge fan. I think they look great during the day, but they don't seem to glow so good at night, and kind of look tacky. Maybe the po just did a crappy job with them, but I think I'm going to take them out. Also I've had nothing but trouble with the electrical to them, and currently they don't light up at all. Again, could be the po's fault when installing them, but I've yet to figure it out.

 

Got mine installed today, Very simple setup, gonna run with em for a while and will prob just swap out the leds next time. Yea their still a bit crooked, but im waiting to see how they look at night without the little relay that came with the gauges.

 

I have very similar gauges and am very impressed with how they look in car.....they have two color settings, blue and teal...also really makes car look good when you add the heater control and shifter indicator overlays to the equation.....not bad for $20 bucks, well worth the money!!

 

I am excited to get these in the car

What heater and shifter inlays do you have? pics please? and where did you get them? thanks

 

Those look great Carlos

 

Nice

 

What all is involved in installing these?

 

Remove gauge cluster (unscrew torx screws and unplug gauge connector)

Remove and clean clear plastic face plate (mothers plastic polish works great)

Remove gauge needles (carefully)

Have a beer

Install white faces

Reinstall clear plastic

Cut into power and ground wire on gauge cluster to light new gauges.

Reattach needles

reconnect cluster to harness

reintall cluster

Mount color control and choose color.

Have a beer

Total 20 min...including beer

VERY easy to do....beginner level

 

Thanks, good to know. I love any job that involves beer too!

 

ahha yes!!!!!!

 

anyone know if they make these for firebirds? i got a 91

 

Mine broke today, they wont turn on and its been fed power.

Looks like im probably gonna order some of the led bulbs and use that instead

 

thats what happens when u dont use the inverter that comes with them

 

Nope, I actually used it very well, just today on the way home from work they turned off during a red light and i thought it was just a loose wire but nope

They looked pretty good, enough to make me debate on ordering another set, but i might go with just buying the bulbs and doing that instead like i said.

 

get a quality set, sounds like a shotty inverter

 

does anyone make a reverse glow for the 140 mph half moon guages

 

i recently installed a set from streetracerparts.com:

 

Looks pretty cool guys. Do any of you guys know how to change the color of the stock gauges though?

 

I'd love a set of reverse glow gauges for my GTA, but I can't find anywhere that makes a 140mph speedo type for a Trans am. It's hard enough just to find the standard type for a Trans Am.....

 

I would also like to know this... are there just bulbs u can change bulb colors to get that kinda effect? Or will it have a yellow tint?

 

You can, there was a thread on here earlier about it as well. Try searching for it, if i recall it said the best bulbs where LED bulbs from an online store. If i can find it ill post up the link.

 

It seems like it is hard to see the needle on the gauges at night. Is it? Or is it just the picture that you have up there? I really, really like the way these look though so i may just go with them either way.

 

yes, that picture shows how hard it was to see. since then i've painted the needles a florescent orange and turn the cluster lights dimly. enough to see them. while i don't have a recent night shot, my web page shows the orange needles. eventually i'd like to replace the needles with some lexan ones and get a set of the small illuminators that someone else on these boards had done on a '92+, i believe.

here's a direct link to my glow guage page:
http://kimnach.org/IROC-Z/Reverse%20Glow%20Gauges.html

 

Thanks for the info, I like your idea a lot, but it seems like that might just be a little too involved for what I want to do. I think I'll just go with the other style that I've found when I do end up buying those and all. Thanks for the help!

 

i know i sound dumb, but which wire is the head light power and ground? i cant get the headlight **** switch off so i wired it into the wire i thought was my headlights, but now the gauges don't ever turn off... help? pics, colors? thanks guys

 

well i got them in and now they are working great! i need to fix the one on the speedometer though, it is causing my needle to stick... advice on an adhesive anyone?

 

 

as you guys can see these things are ridiculously bright!