Hey guys..I just did my gauges in blue and i plan to finish the rest of my internal lights in blue..

Whats next? The HVAC (the climate control settings)
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and then the reardefrost light
then teh P, D, N, R, 1, 2 shift patern lights..

i wanna do all this in blue.. but right now i wanna do the HVAC panal.. just woundering how to do this and looking for a tutorial as well as tutorials on teh rest of this stuff!!

Thanks

 

Well, there's 2 ways you can do this... you can just switch out the bulb and use blue led in its place... but it won't be that bright... and the red part of the climate control comes out purple because of the blue led... or you can cut out a template and solder leds onto it which lights up really bright... but depending on how you do it it might be hard to get it to fit behind the panel. I did mine with the template and it was a lot of work because you had to make sure you do a clean job and since the leds are so close together on the backside of the template... and when putting back the panel you might squeeze it in a way that some of the + and - wires are touching and burn the led (or leds) out. I ended up cutting all the white plastic molding on the back of the hvac panel off with a plier (just bend and break them off) so that i have more space for my template. I'll say the template way would look the best and require lots of work... oh yeah... and if one of your led dies you have to remove the whole thing and resolder... So good luck on it I've seen a tutorial somewhere... i'll post it up if i can find it.

 

oh yeah...i just remembered there's a 3rd way of doing it... which is going to www.oznium.com which they sell the led strips which probably is much easier... but i haven't tried it yet...

 

do any of you guys have pics of your custom clusters? i am gettin my white faced gauges soon and want to change the color of the gauges. I know there was a pretty good link to a LED site but can't seem to find it anymore, I want to do everything at once when I swap out my cluster

 

If you want single leds and custom leds then try oznium.com if you wanted led bulbs to replace automotive size bulbs like plug and play then try autolumination.com Here's some picture of my custom clusters that I got from ebay for I think almost $30... approximately that price... it's been a while. Hope this helps. I haven't post any pictures of my interior yet because i know people's gonna say rice... but it's just me...

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how did u switch da bulbs from ur cluster, i wana do da same.

 

The white face cluster I got off ebay... It's a glow gauge overlay. Just open up your cluster and put it in and then hook it up to a 12v source and you're good to go. It also has a **** to control how bright you want it to be and change of color between blue and green. Also depends on whether you have a tach on your cluster. Here's a link to one with a tach... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/00-04...spagenameZWDVWIt's a little different from mine though.. I got mine from someone else... and i can't seem to find his anymore but he might come back up selling it again later.

 

i wanted to change them out to LEDs that have a really good output, i know there was another site i just can't think of the name! lol

 

Your HVAC looks awesome man.. if u could find the tutorial u used that would be great...

Thanks

 

Ok, finally i found it... here's the link
http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.ph...highlight=hvac
I did mine this way too except using the plastic sheet from a binder (yeah... school binder )