http://www.thewebworks.com/nuke/modu...bum.php&page=1


this 2002TL

 

Looks excellent, how long did it take you to finish your job and which type of piaa bulbs?

 

These pics does not come out that great. It does hot show the true white light and red color. Notice the needles are not that bright? Well last night I stay until 2 AM in the morning to make a glow red hot. Now it's look awesome.

It costed me almost $400 for parts and the hours spent on this project is priceless! I have to buy individual super cool white LEDs ($3 a pcs and I need at least 80 pcs. of them) and soldering on a PCB then mounted behind the guages after cutting out some plastic molding inside the instrument cluster.

The results look better than the LEXUS, BMW, and MERCEDES!

 

none of these links work.

 

The thread is from 4/2002.

 

Gotta give it to him for searching though

 

This thread just made me giggle

 

yea i did search dude, but i didnt know what to,
i tried LED guages,
then just guages, and after seeing none of the links work, cept that blue pic of that interior blue but not the guages, i just gave up. mostly because i want like the DARK BLUE like VW style blue, not the REALLY BRIGHT CCRAZY blue.

 

https://acurazine.com/forums/ramblings-12/attn-angelcl-186556/

just do that, but use BLUE LEDs. the gauges have filters on them so if you used white it would still look blue. so if you used blue LED then they would be extremely dark blue.

https://acurazine.com/forums/acurazine-clubs-meets-15/sfl-miami-meet-cb-smith-park-pinic-18th-183842/

there is another link. just look at the HVAC knobs...is that the color you are looking for? those are blue LEDs behind the factory blue filters.

 

Also recently done in the TL area

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152993

https://acurazine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152754

 

I'd also love to do this. I think if the whole gauge was dark blue like vw, it would look good.

 

Thanks guys i appreciate it!

I agree, but hyper white would be nice to. but that guy didnt write a diy. i really dont plan on modding this car anyhow. its my stock luxury liner......

 

Just about anything's possible with our gauges. It all just takes time and enough patience, and some trial and error, and you can make the gauges look like almost anything. I'd love to try something with blue/red combo with our gauges.

 

I remember when i had the eclipse, there used to be an orange film behind the guage that would ONLY let orange light through, so even if you put in blue bulbs you still had orange guages!

do our cars have something like this to?

 

Yep, we've got a blue filter though. But a little acetone will take care of that pretty quick.

 

so wait, we have a blue filter which ONLY lets blue light through or it DOESNT let blue light through?

 

It DOES let blue light through. If you use a white LED, the filter will tint the light a light blue color. Check out ledautomotive.com, they have some pics of what the gauges would look like with just white LEDs replacing the stock incadesant bulbs.

 

k that makes sense

 

has anyone tried removing the filter, and leaving the stock bulbs in? will they look a little whiter and brighter?

 

Yes, yes, and no. The stock bulbs are regular incandescent bulbs, which produce a yellow/orange-ish light.