Just finished converting my gauges to LED. They look good, hard to tell in the pics though. Here's a before pic.

 

After LED conversion

 

Hey I had an idea like that, how'd you do it and what lights did you use?

 

Is your Service Engine light on in the second picture?

 

Uhhh... I think it looks like poop. The desired effect is this:

p.s. Yes... that is the dashboard in my car. That's an old pic. It looks ten times better now.

 

Now what you want to get that effect is to REMOVE your stock black overlays and use MacEwen's white/silver overlays instead. They're transparent and will the blue light through instead of turning it green like your stock overlays do.

 

92V6Heritage- I used 8 LED's two in each socket for the bulbs that illuminate the dash. The LED's were white ones, and cost me 1.75 a piece.

LowStyleII- yes my service engine soon light is on, but it isn't now, my car has been sitting in the garage and it went away after i ran the car.

Odyssey-If I had money to spend I would have done mine like yours. I got the white LED's, mine aren't blue, so its probably an illusion if you saw green. I only used 8 LED's, all in the dash lighting and not the warning lights. I probably spent a third of what you did. Again when I get the money I'll probably get the white face gauges, and maybe more LED's.

 

Thats Sweet!:hail: , did you do that the same way as in the tech article but with more LED's or is it from the MacEwen's overlays that makes them so bright, I want to make mine look just like that.

 

I got some updated pics

 

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4... last one

 

How did you do that, do you have any install pics? Please show me:hail: :hail:

 

Not bad, I'll stick with pontiacs orange though

 

I see green too.

 

Did you just take off the orange on the needles to make them white?

 

I like it. Like roadog115, I too would like to know about the guages. that is the one thing missing from mine.

Brian

 

Well maybe if you didn't spend all your money to fill up your gas tank, then you would have some money for LED's........lol.....

That looks good....

Odyssey - Who did your dash??

 

Odyssey: how many led's did you use?
how did you get the needles red?

what mcd where the leds you guys used?

 

I'll get some pics of what i did for everybody. I basically did what the tech article said.

My car is the V6 Camaro, so the gauge needle's are white. See the needles on my spare dash, they are a yellow color. See picture.

I used something like 4000mcd white led's. I used two in each socket. I only used 8 LED's to illuminate the dash, Later on i will modify my dash so i can use more leds.

 

Spare gauge cluster with yellow needles.

 

I looked at the back of my tach and might be able to figure out how to make the needle a different color. I'll post pics if i can.

 

It seems that Odyssey is Blackened, the same guy who was supposedely selling the led kits for gauges...

 

Ok, I bought one blue led and two red leds. I installed the red leds in my spare gauge cluster. It works pretty good and illuminates the tach needle red. I used a white led flashlight to illuminate the rest of the dash that. This is my spare dash so its not in my car yet. It was pretty easy. I used a dremel to cut the clear plastic so my white leds don't shine on the needle. then i used a drill to drill into the clear plastic around the needle. It was pretty easy and i used two and it is pretty bright. I'll try the blue led sometime and let you know how it turns out.

 

i'm thinking about using ultra high leds to light my needles in orange. they don't have to me red for me.

is ther a light behind each needle.

 

Got the red needle installed in my car. What do you think? I like it.

 

another pic

 

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OK, here is a pretty bad diagram on how to do this. thisi is the back of my spare gauges for my 91 RS. This should work on all 90-92 gauges. I hope this helps.

Their are 4 bulbs that illuminate the dash and the needles. So unless you do something like this your needles will be the same color as the led's behind the dash. I don't know what it looks like behind previous year camaros or firebirds dash and not sure if it would work. I got more pics i can email you if you want of how i got the needle to be red.

 

harry you gotta do all your needles

 

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=104827

 

i'd use white leds for the numbers and red leds for the needles. but since i'm too lazy to do that i'll stick with pontiac's orange.

 

Thats........so.....beautiful! I.........must.......have.........done.......to.......mine.......how.......you.......do........that..........

 

on the t/a dash..


how did you change the defroster / hatch release buttton color?