New guages, deck

Darcy · Post by **Darcy** » June 28th, 2007, 2:45 pm

Tell me what you all think. I picked up some Speedhut gauges and a new Sony deck for my red RS. Got a fairly decent color scheme going on, but I had a wicked idea to put a blacklight in my gauge cluster instead of the green-covered incandescant to light up the needles.

Sal · Post by **Sal** » June 28th, 2007, 3:28 pm

thats pretty sweet!!.. where did you grab the colored cluster from? and do they have other colours..?

mr1in6billion · Post by **mr1in6billion** » June 28th, 2007, 6:52 pm

Sal wrote:thats pretty sweet!!.. where did you grab the colored cluster from? and do they have other colours..?

He said speed hut.

And yup, that's a pretty sweet color scheme.

Post by **Mooneggs** » June 29th, 2007, 7:54 am

I like it! I've always thought about doing red... nice.... oh and you can pull out all the little "green covered bulbs" and take the green covers off and replace them with whatever color you want... I wouldn't recommend LED's because since it is on a dimmer switch it doesn't make them last as long... but definately change them out or take the green off!

Also have you modfied your turn signal lights yet? you can take the green transparent pieces out... get 2 coke bottle caps (if you want red) and cut them to the same shape - walaa you have red turn signals on your dash to match!

hey BTW what is the bottom deck? mp3 player?

Darcy · Post by **Darcy** » June 29th, 2007, 12:07 pm

I actually did take the green covers off of the needle illumination bulbs to make them more white instead of green, but like I said, I still want to do a black light conversion altogether.
LEDs aren't affected by dimmer switches. As long as the forward current doesn't exceed the specification, they'll last forever (almost).

Haven't done anything with the turn signals yet, but I'll keep that in mind. I was thinking of some kind of red cellophane or something but didn't have enough time to get around to doing that yet.

Yup. The bottom deck is my MP3 player. http://www.omnifimedia.com/products/omn ... tNum=87055
I have a 60GB drive.

tehbrookzorz · Post by **tehbrookzorz** » July 1st, 2007, 4:58 am

I want to see a daytime shot of those guages.

Slickjr09 · Post by **Slickjr09** » July 1st, 2007, 12:17 pm

When i put in my new head unit and turn on my lights nothing illumanates inside anymore, no fuses blown and i cant figre it out, anybody have an idea.

Darcy · Post by **Darcy** » July 1st, 2007, 11:37 pm

Demanding bunch, aren't we?

I noticed a few days afterwards that there is no zero on the tachometer. I should see if they'll send a new one.

Inside my garage where it was a bit darker. (Lights off)

I backed out of the garage, so this is more 'daylight'. (Lights still off)

Post by **Mooneggs** » July 2nd, 2007, 10:58 am

I like it... you definately need to lose the green blinkers though

oh and what is on the top of your dash? a dash carpet???

Darcy · Post by **Darcy** » July 2nd, 2007, 2:14 pm

I'm just waiting for an Ebay shipment, and I'll be replacing the green blinkers.

The 'dash carpet' is actually my [s]anti-theft device[/s] paw-prints steering wheel cover. It is very effective.

mrmike420 · Post by **mrmike420** » July 15th, 2007, 8:15 pm

U Might want to look into changing that green clock too! Perhaps blue would be a good color for it, and also for the blinkers... Just a thought!

Post by **Mooneggs** » July 16th, 2007, 9:48 am

how do you change the color of the clock???

mrmike420 · Post by **mrmike420** » July 16th, 2007, 10:10 am

Check the "HOW-TO: Change Color of everything in the Instument Cluster" in the Appearance FAQ...

Post by **Mooneggs** » July 16th, 2007, 11:00 am

lol thanks

IRISHmx-3 · Post by **IRISHmx-3** » July 16th, 2007, 1:16 pm

oh my god! i want that! the red with the mx3 rocks too!