I don't think it would matter. I would go with white just to maintain color but be brighter.

 

if anyone want my guage setup im willing to sell the bulb to you, or you can send me your cluster, i'll change the bulb and modify the pannel for you so you have white led.. im thinking about going blue to back to red. PM me if your intrested, remember the bulbs are about 50 bucks plus labor, it wont be to much but dont lowball me.

 

if I was to want a red lighted cluster, would it be better to keep the amber film or remove it? i was thinking that the red LED's would be bright enough to show up as red if the film was on it still. But what way would look and work better, film or no film with Red LEDs?

 

you should definately get rid of the film if you want red gauges. you wouldn't get the color you want with the film on. its not to bad removing the film.

 

Azcamel, do you have any more pictures of it illuminated at night? yours seems to be the "ice blue" color. I was wanting to do either the darker blue like the newer VWs, or green like the greddy gauges.

did you use the inverted cone LEDs? How is the light disbursement?

 

that looks really good.

 

i use the circuit board look 360 led, cool white

 

mine:

 

do you have another pic of the gauges that shows them better? I'm wondering if there are any hot spots if you use the circuit board style LEDs

 

just look at mine. i used the circuit board style.

 

Excellent Lao. Thats exactly what I wanted to do as well. I love white.

Hey did you ever sell that SMIC!

 

Yeah, I did. Sorry bro.

I tried converting my ac panel too, but completely botched it. Now I'm thinking if I should get a new one or just pulling everything out and trying to fix it myself. Really disappointing though.

 

even though the LED spread the light it still has minor hot spot, its due to the placement of the bulb or lack of bulbs. if you look at the coolant guage you will notice that it is slightly brighter at the top then the bottom, same for the fuel gauge. The tach and speedo is more equaly because fo the large light scatter plate in the back, its still varies a bit but not as bad.

 

has anyone checked out these gauges?

http://www.importintelligence.com/FM...dex.html&-Edit

 

they also have needle lighting upgrades:
http://www.importintelligence.com/FM...dex.html&-Edit

 

Hey this might sound obvious but I've never removed the cluster. I'm planning to do this to my '93, but I want to get rid of all the red in the tach, like from 7.5k to 9k. Possible to make the whole tach white?

 

yes its possible. Idk why you would want to get rid of this but ya. All you have to do is remove the red film behind that area much like how their is an amber film behind the other areas that he removed.

 

I have my cluster just about out, all of the connections disconnected cleanly. But how do I remove the cigarette lighter part? I can't figure it out. There's no clip and you can't just remove the whole part.

 

Their should be a black plastic connector that goes into the back of the cigarette lighter. Just wiggle it out. If thats not the solution. Their are two screws holding it in and you can just remove it like that.

 

Thanks! I just gave the plastic part a more deliberate pull and it came right off.

 

yep. it is kinda tuff. it has probably been there for a long *** time.

 

I have the gauge cluster out and I took off the fuel gauge face. The back of it has no orange, only green with white dots. The other gauges appear the same way. What orange am I supposed to scratch off?





sorry about the bad cameraphone pics, my G9 is broke =\

 

shine a flash light through the face you will see the silver thing is red film.. sand it off.

 

Oh man, I held an LED up to the backing and found all of it was orange. Sorry for sounding so stupid, I guess I should have taken off any gauge but the fuel one first.

thanks! maybe now I can finish this damn mod. haha

I need 7 of the chip-looking LEDs?

 

hahaha. omg will people please just read.

you need 4x WLED-HP6 and 1x 73-xHP3 from superbrightleds.com to do the gauge faces.