^ thats funny - i didnt see the miles. ha.

 

Put it this way.. .the lights will change color via a programmable device that can react to various vehicle inputs. One possible side to this is a shift light that is not external to the cluster.

Not trying to be overly secretive.. but if I give out all the details early people will be wanting it before I even have it all tested. So once I see what portions work best with our setup I will post them :D

And squall has a secret too!!!!

As for the white coating, I can explain that better. If you havent had the needles off before, it may be confusing. The coloring is on the back of the needle, so they put down orange, then white on top of that (which is "on the other side" of the orange in relation to the driver). The white helps to reflect more light back through the orange, giving it a brighter appearance. So I do the same with any other color I paint them.

 

Is it a toyota? If so it is probably only halfway through its life I dont think it is though. But I will say, I had a 78 corolla with at least 300,000 HARD miles on it and it still ran strong!

Check around when you want to do it. You would be suprised how cheap the swaps are these days. So that will be one of the cheaper bills when it comes to modding the car.

 

Good job - its good hearing your ideas cause you arent full of bs. hehe. ....which we sometimes hear on the forum (just from some people across the posts).

 

too bad I am not full of spare time though

I have been letting people know, I have a full time (well.. usually more than full time) career and a family, so I have to let this stuff come third. So if I take forever to get new stuff out there.. that is why. If I lived alone, that my be different.. but family comes first.

But trung and jeremy are always coming up with new stuff too, so it is fun to be involved in!

Now.. back to waiting for my flight.. lucky me flying back into minneapolis while a snow storm is moving in!

 

that would blind me while i was driving.
either those pictures are crappy or those damn needles are way too bright

 

It could be either. Taking pics of the gauge lighting is tough to do and make it look right. The contrast of everything and the bright lighting sometimes make it hard to take a good pic. A lot of people over expose them to make them look different as well. For me, some of my pics look better than others, simply because I am sometimes too lazy to mess around with the settings while taking them after doing a mod I usually dim the dash lights quite a bit to get it to look closer to real life though. Usually if I dont do that, they come out looking way brighter than they really are