Another gauges post

[Elfumador]

Hey guys just wanted to post some pics on my latest project, I bought an extra cluster from Ebay $20 bucks, I just used the back piece of the cluster for the LED's and just transplanted the gauges. Might be a little blurry my camera sucks in taking pics in tha dark. I install the needle kit about 5 years ago.

[Elfumador]

Oh and here are some pics of the Climate control buttons, I still need some work for the temp knob controls..

[iinokturnolii]

looks good!

[rizwanmakani]

Awesome work... .. hey could you tell me the exact process how u did the gauge, climate control and the temp?? Thanx

[PiterNYC]

Looks great, what kind of leds you used ??

[Elfumador]

On the gauges I use super flux LED's that I got on Ebay, on the climate control I got some LED's on superleds.com and just added a resistor. To make the LED's light not look to direct I just frosted them by using a dremel with a grinding stone

[SleeperSolara]

Lookin' good man.
Good job.

[blaK]

Great job, I want mine in red or blue. How much you want?

[Sp33d]

wow, nice job.

just a side note, but where is the park light, drive light, neutral light, and all of those that are normally in between engine temp and gas?

-mark

[Turbosolara]

i have a extra camry cluster laying around, any offers?

[Elfumador]

My car has a 5 speed manual tranny

[pwizzle]

Awesome job.

Also, how did you get your needles to look like that? I have some red 194 bulbs back there and everything is red, but I was going to get some white LEDs but I want to keep the needles red but wasn't sure how.

[lilm]

if you take off the backing of the needles and position a led to go with the needle it will pick up that color.......had mine white when i had my cathodes in

[Duffman]

I tried several attempts at using LEDs behind the dash, and was NEVER able to get around the "focused" light in certain spots. I ended up using five white xenon 194 bulbs and 2 meters of white neon flex tubing. It's ghetto, but it looks decent. I'm thinking my best bet is to just grab an ES300 cluster and rewire.

[NeFaRiOuS_SLE]

NICE... Except [not to change the subject] you have to hold the camera extra steady in night shots. For taking pics of your gauge like that, I'd say use a tripod, but it's very impractical in a car, so it's recommended that you sit in the back seat and use the edge of your driver's seat to keep your camera steady while the shutter is open longer than usual. I thought my cheesy HP sucked too, but I just held it steady and it actually wasn't bad...

I say that because I want to see what it looks like unbiased by motion blur.