Recently have had my third failure with AutoMeter fuel pressure gauge. Plus their boost gauge sucks. This is their Pro-Comp with incandescent bulbs. It comes with a 3 watt bulb which was too weak. I had added 5 watts years ago and then they were adequately illuminated. Going to WLED-xHP5 bulbs made them brighter than the gauge lights. They were tied into the stock gauge adjustable lighting system.

I adjust my gauge cluster to about midpoint which is just below 8 volts.

Just finished installing the Speedhut 52mm gauges with LED lighting, non adjustable version. Same crap again! It takes the full 12v for them to be just as bright as the stock at 8 volts. Thus I had to tie their light source into the TNS relay output for the exterior lights. Now they match up.

Is it that our FD dash lights are just that much brighter or that the aftermarket just sucks ****?

 

On my last FD i seem to recall my defi D series looking fine in amber. I also have autometer that lights up amber and white.

I prefer the white because I can actually see. I will eventually replace all with most likely defi

Edit.. What is with your signature? That is highly offensive

 

I am not offended by it

 

My Speedhut seems to be fine, color aren't dead on but the brightness is very close to be the same at night, and my dash is on full brightness.

 

nice gauge setup!

 

looks good ZE...thats a lot of gauges

 

I have Greddy gauges, the illumination brightness is identical to the stock gauges and dims the same when you dim them down.

Dale

 

Try at half setting.

 

Unless I'm mistaken, Speedhut doesn't make gauges that use LED backlighting. Maybe with their digital gauges but that would be indirect LED backlighting. Anything that uses a backlight inverter is electroluminescent and you don't get stellar brightness from those.

That said, I didn't seem to have trouble matching the brightness of the rest of my stock lighting with my SH conversion.

Lane

 

Half on stock gauge or Speedhut? I think both are on full right now, I set the brightness ~1.5 years ago and never mess with it.

Thanks, yeah eventually I want to retrofit the cluster, that will get rid of the column pod.

 

Put the FD gauges at half physical adjustment then look at the Speedhuts. They need full FD adjustment to be decent but the FD at 1/2 is very good.

My new Speedhut Boost gauge reads .5 psi low from about 2 to 18 psi. My previous Autometer was 1.5 low above about 8 psi.

The SpeedHut FP gauge is about equal to my old Autometer.
See attachment.

 

Oh, I don't have them wire together. I use the Speedhut adjuster, set the brightness and just shoved it under the center panel.

I don't remember what the setting was, I don't think it is at full but I could be wrong as I set that up a long time ago, the FD cluster is in full for sure.