Yeah I've never met anyone from this forum before. I didn't even know there was a region forum for our area until tonight. But I've been looking for something like this since I got my tC a year ago. Hope I'm not encroaching on a private engagement...

 

this install day is open to anyone/everyone. plus, it's a chance to meet up with some of the SE:C crew.


NOTE:
cuz we now have 10+ doing this mod, we all get to save 10% off our totals -- (so now we can all pitch in for pizza... hehehe)

 

Sweet deal. Plus I'm always down for some pizza. Where you guys normally order from (I actually live fairly closeby to this meetup place.)

 

Yes it's going to have to be a first come, first serve deal... I would like to start as early as possible as it usually takes about 1 1/2 hours for a complete tC LED swap. with the list growing more each day, it's going to be a marathon getting everybody taken care of.

We should be able to set it up so that everybody get's taken care of.

I'm thinking 8 or 9am start running them through. Burn a good 11 hours and we're golden. (I'll need at least an hour break ) I'm probably going to need some help taking the modules out of the cars, then we can just run them through like an assembly line. As soon as I can get ahold of Raul, , we'll work out the details of how this is going to run.

The way the xB gauges are set-up is the Speedo #'s are solid balck and the LED's light up the background. Then the RPM #'s are translucent and the LED's light them up through a solid balck background. Now if you wanted your Speedo background Blue but then your RPM's still white... I could do that, I just wouldn't touch the stock white LED's behind the RPM gauge.

 

I don't touch the needles except to take them off. They stay pretty much the same color.

 

is it possible to have the out side of my gauges blue and the inside red?

 

You can get whole guages a color but the same led's light the lines and the #'s.

So the right and left gauges can be red and the center blue but not combined.

 

DAMN !!!! THAT SUCKS

 

what about tranluscent paint for the needles?

 

You can try but I've never done it.

 

Drat. Do you think anyone might be there to possibly hook up something like that? I found a thread where someone did it, but they say its a pain to do. I would be willing to toss in some extra dough to have it done, since I don't think I'd be able to do it well myself and I have no freaking idea where I could get it done elsewhere.
The thread:

I basically want this but instead of blue I want green:

 

hmm... well the guy that did this mod said it took him about 6 hours to do... He sectioned off behind the gauge and added an extra LED under the needle so the colors didn't bleed together. If anyone has some other ideas to get the effect i'm looking for I'd really appreciate it. I'm pretty **** about my aesthetics, so I apologize if i'm annoying anyone.

 

duct tape!

 

just take a razor to the needle and scrape back the amber on the needle and then add a blue transparent tape... or whatever color you choose. I don't know if it will work but I did that in my last car and it worked fine...

or go to imortintelligence and buy a 2large 2 small needle kit for 65.00...

 

well the needle painting/stripping only takes a few minutes. Its putting the led behind it and isolating the color that's the b1tch of it. If there was a way to maybe only replace like one of the middle lights with white and the rest green and be able to keep the white solely on the needle part then i'd be good. But i don't know the placement of the leds... so yeah.

 

here is what the led's look like

 

Hmm... well the lower led's i'd want to remain stock (cel, turn signals, abs light, etc. except anything that's amber I'd want green or white or blue or something. I really hate that amber color ) The tachometer and the gas and temp gauges i think i'd be screwed on... doesn't seem like the lights are directly under the needles at all. The speedometer though, is that center led directly under the needle? maybe if i just made that one white and the rest green, think that might do the trick? or would it bleed out the rest of the color? Are the two lower led's in the center for the odometer? If so, those I definitely want white.

Maybe another possiblity would be to make the gauges white and paint the needles green. I'd imagine the colors would come out fine then. Curious as to how that would look... might have to do some photoshopping when I get home.

 

Correct, the LED's light up the gauges and the needles. all I'm doing during this day is the LED swap. The day of, just let me know what LED's you want me to leave or change and I'll do it but I can't do the needles.

And yes the Greens will bleed out the white or Vice-Versa. That's why you're better off doing the left & right sections one color and the center another if you want a 2 tone. Also, what color do you want the AC controls as there is a price difference between Green & White.

 

I was looking at my ac controls on lunch today and I think I'll go with green, even though the spot where the blue and red arch comes together might look a little weird. You'll be doing the LCD clock led as well, yes?

 

Yes the clocl gets changed too, and you could always leave the Blue & Red ends and just change the 2 Amber middle ones to Green... so It'll go Blue-to-Green-to-Red.