Ok:

Newest Gauge Setup

First pic:
Shows where the 6" Blacklight bar is placed.
-Was secured with 3M Double sided Heavy Duty Tape
-Had to cut out a few things to make it fit, nothing big

Second pic:
Shows where I mounted the "igniting" piece for the UV blacklight.
-I re-mounted it to the top, cuz there was a big piece of plastic inside that didn't allow me to fit it there, so I put it on top, where the white meets the black on the connection point.
-Used 3M Double Sided tape again

Third Pic:
Shows the lighting of the needles/gauges with the blue bulbs. Looks a lot better in real life, mainly because I use an old Sony digicam that is 1.2 megapixels

Fourth Pic:
Same thing as the third, just tried to go further back, and zoom in more.


The setup took about 1 hr to do, not too bad. And I have all LED's, and that blacklight bar which will last a very long time. I never have to worry about the light dying on me!

Just htought I'd share. Time to take pics of all the other things I have in my car!

 

it seems hella dim.

get a pic with the black light on and the blue leds off

 

yea the blacklight is on....just hard to tell thru pics....the needles/gauges light up fine in real life tho

 

wat was the difficulty level 1-10

 

1 being easiest, 10 being hardest

about 3 or 4

 

i was lookin for it 2 be super bright,

maybe its different in real life

 

thats cool man. howcome your tach and speedo gauges are dim in some spots? is it supposed to be like that?

 

I replaced my guage bulbs to blue too, its just as bright as stock, in the pics you just cant tell. Also, im guessing DanMan left the two bulbs at the top out, since you cant really see his needles, so that might be why it seems so dim

 

i replaced the 2 bulbs with a 6" UV Blacklight

The camera I guess doesn't capture blacklight well, but its nice and bright

I think I'm the first to do this

 

its dope!

 

nice!!

now, it's time to do mine too!! huh???

anyway.. isn't it tooo dark??

 

nice work

 

lol

it doesn't take long at all...i still have yet to see it while driving at night

im gonna check it out tonight on my way home from church

oh nippon, i might be sellin the car next month due to the transmission being weak in the CL, also that the value is dropping rapidly, my dad wants to sell it

if i do, i'll probably swap a buncha stuff w/ u with a small fee of what i paid for stuff etc. wanna do that? that way my car will look stock again, and you get the blue conversion, etc stuff

 

ive thought of doin something like this with floresent paint on the tips of the needels since they dont light up grrrrrrrrrr

 

I have that blacklight in my computer case haha

 

looks nice... but there are some hot spots...
but it probably looks WAY better in real life.

 

yea i tried to get rid of those hot spots, i shaved the top of all the LED's pretty flat, but it still has them!

It used to be a lot worse until I shaved them. Know of any other idea to spread it more? I mean its not bad at all in real life....just the "60 mph" point is a little dimmer than the rest, but other than that it looks very even

This mod is REALLY cheap
6" UV = $10 shipped
906 bulbs = $20
5mm blue LED + res = $0.20 or something

Put the UV bar above the gauges, put the 906 bulbs in the 194 socket, then put the 5mm + resistor in the 74 size bulb (the small one)

If you do it all correctly, you got a nice gauge setup

 

Looks kinda dim to me. My stock luminating bulbs are def brighter than that on my white faces. Check out my pics, only one pic was taken with flash.