LED gauge cluster
 

i was wondering if anyone had replaced the gauge cluster bulbs with LEDs? i searched but could only find it done to FDs. Would this be hard to do?


http://i30.tinypic.com/5myhbt.jpg

All of the lights plug into the back of the gauge cluster, all you really have to do is remove the cluster surround, unbolt the gauge cluster, remove, and take out the bulbs on the back of the cluster. They make direct replacement LEDs so there isn't really anything "difficult" about it.

ok cool thanks for the info

has anyone done that successfully? some clusters, if you put LED retrofit bulbs, will have hotspots because the LEDs dont disperse the same way as standard bulbs so you typically have to build a chain of LEDs around to light everything up.

If you had some sort of lens or diffuser it might work better. I don't know how much room you have to play with though.

arent FC clusters lit from the front?

No.
There's a diffuser that carries light from the back and tries to spread the illumination to the bottom front but no direct lighting up front.

As nice as the posted pic looks, keep in mind we don't have illuminated needles, so the effect won't be as striking.

I see

https://www.rx7club.com/picture.php?...ictureid=17054


later ill take a night image... i scooped these ebay faces for 20 bucks or so..

The best way to do it is to wire in strips of LED's in around the perimeter... that is what I plan to do.

my car came with that. i riped it out right away.

^^ oo my cluster was a lil messed up when i got my 7 soo i figured i might as well put something differant


https://www.rx7club.com/picture.php?...ictureid=18362

ya know there is a differroute with the leds.. find a 12v switched when the lights come on remove the regular bulbs.. back light them with white leds...

i used a led as a key hole light there was no bulb in mine if u cant find a 12v led in a color u want, i found out that use of a 560 ohm resistor with a 4volt led works just fine.

if only someone would make those reverse glows without the stuff in the middle/inside, id be all for them. But like others said here, our needles dont light up =(

i belive there is a way to use uv leds and a light touch of uv paint to make the needles glow..


i panited my needles black like a dumb.. and sometimes i have trouble seeing them.. i got used to it now but at first it was rough

Also don't the LED burn a LOT hotter? I was talking to a distributor about some of them and he said they're okay for like turn signals and stuff that doesn't just stay on constantly since they get hot and can possibly melt shit.

leds are cool to the touch... when the burn out the dont melt or anything... they flicker a differant color and have a funky electric fire smell and thats it... i did it with a 3.5v led and a nine 9volt battery....

can't wait until someone does a write up for leds in a stock cluster with lit needles, some how.

Probably not going to happen.
-Gauges that come with illuminated needles have the light transfer "structure" (for lack of a better word) tightly integrated into the mechanism proper...it's not something easily retrofit into an old gauge.

-Assuming the above could be overcome (and it really can't, but...), removing and replacing gauge needles- especially the long, fast response ones in the tach/speedo- is nearly impossible to do successfully. Even with gauges where needle removal was an actual service requirement (like the Smith's gauges found in classic British cars), there was only about a 50-50 chance they'd work right afterwards.
Our gauges are not intended to be disassembled to that degree.

To get that sort of look you'd either have to adapt/modify a gauge cluster from a car that came with it or just make a panel with suitable aftermarket gauges (probably the easiest way to go).

:uhh:

http://i38.tinypic.com/1qphlk.jpg

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HAHAHAHa LOL that is funny!! :)

That looks great!


how did you get the needles to light up?

He didn't.
That's an entirely new cluster-NOT a modified stock part- from someplace in Japan.

where can i get one?

Japan. And the company that made them went outta business about 6 years
ago so.... GL /W that shit. :icon_tup:

do you at least have a company name, and the name of the product?

Its a company called cyberstork.... and no they are very much still in buisness

http://www.cyberstork.com/english/

http://www.cyberstork.com/index.html

They even have an ebay store but I can't link it (forum rules)

look up cyberstork-usa on ebay

actually no, it is the stock cluster modified...not a new cluster...iv been meaning to to a write up one of these days probably in the spring for S4s

This was posted up recently, it was made by cyberstork.

http://www.cyberstork.com/

what did you use for the needles?

i cant seem to find those on cyberstorks page?

They are a flim decal applied to the needles.It's on the site,look a little harder.

Looks great..I browsed the site, but I can't seem to find the film to replicate that cluster from the previous page.. I like how clean and normal it looks while not being white faced!

thoose needles look sexy ....... i hate my needles at night

good luck trying to get anything from Cyberstork. I went through rhjapan to get a new cluster plastic panel and Cyberstork refused to ship it unless I gave the JAPANESE production ID....they would not accept my VIN even though it contains the manufacturing date which is the same as the Jap production date.

Very frustrating. Might be easier to just get the bulbs though.

good thing i have a set of Japanese tags

ever figure out why its not orange? can the orange be scrapped off the back of the gauges or something?

It would be pretty rad if all you needed was some paint thinner and paper towel and could wipe the orange off lol

its funny i have had my reverse glow for so long that when i saw the stock faces i miss them..lol

They have one on E-bay right now. Too bad they are only KM/H. 180 KM/H is only 111 MPH.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-M...item3a55f87d38

http://www.cwrotary.net/images/cluster.jpg

the orange isnt like the FD were its a film that can be sanded down from the back. the orange is stained on the front of the faces and if you try to scrap or sand down the color you would only damage it.

What that white character cluster is is an overlay face, the back side has been scraped out to allow more light to pass through the overlay face making the characters to shine in brighter white than they normally would if just placed over the stock cluster.

Had a look at that one on ebay, and its not light up needles

any more pics ?

Here is mine

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/o...7/DSC00884.jpg

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/o...7/DSC00946.jpg

http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/o...7/IMG_1980.jpg

kinda oldschool ferrari-ish =P

knigts cluster km miles
 

dame that knights cluster is what i have been looking for yu have to tell me were they or yu got it from

lol that knightsports 260km/h is stock canadian speedo limit..

Yeah that knightsports speedometer is almost the same as the Canadian and European 260km ones. The only difference is that the knightsports reads 272km lol...I got it to replace the 180km on my jdm fc. The dress up parts are from cyberstork. The chrome rings, the silver face, led stock replacement lights and clear plastic panel. They look much better at night in reality than in the picture.