Anyone still have those glowing gauges?

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01-23-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Fabio421

I bought the uprated converter at my initial purchase. They are nowhere near dim. I have them set at about 40% brightness.

I have the reverse red, so there is less available brightness. Good point for those considering the "brighter" colors in the spectrum.

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01-23-2009, 07:42 PM

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Jadz,
Any pix of your guages around. I would love to see both night and day shots.

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01-24-2009, 01:23 AM

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Yea, at post#12
https://rennlist.com/forums/6207970-post12.html

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01-24-2009, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Bulvot

Jim, if you're coming to Chantilly on the 7th, I'd love to take a look at your gauges.

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Chris

I'll be driving the 87 which has the stock guages.

I went for this red thing in the 84... makes for stealth looking night driving.

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01-24-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Bulvot

Such a tease...

I'm reading through the threads on this and I'm not clear on what was replaced. Did you replace the entire gauge PLUS change out the gauge face? Or just chance the face, or what? I like the way yours looks, but I'm having a tough time sorting out exactly what you changed...

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What you get from Speedhut is an overlay. You get 4 thin, die-cut faces. You stick them on top of your existing guages with double-sided tape.

Fabio's writeup and pics are the best to show what need to be done

Here's my old thread about the install

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01-24-2009, 12:53 PM

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they only issue I saw when looking at these is that they wont really work for any 85+ auto as they all have the smaller tach with the little lights to tell you what gear you are in. So the range would be WAY off.
I wish they had the option for these cars.

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01-24-2009, 02:07 PM

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Jadz, Sorry for the dumb question, but here is another...
With this install do you no longer need the bulbs and wedges at all? Do you still need them for the needles?
Thanks,

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01-24-2009, 02:53 PM

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Wedges? You can still use the bulbs to illuminate the needles but they are not totally necessary because of the amount of light produced by the EL faces.

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01-24-2009, 03:28 PM

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Thanks Fabio,
I was thinking of going with the reverse glo which I imagine throws alot less light.

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01-24-2009, 04:15 PM

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Thanks Fabio,
I was thinking of going with the reverse glo which I imagine throws alot less light.

You are right, esp in reverse red. I used red wedge bulbs and painted the needles silver. Work pretty well though there are a couple blind spots for the needles. If I were to do it again, I would get Nicole's LED dash kit instead of the wedges.

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01-24-2009, 05:20 PM

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my speedhut ones are still working great from 2002 as well!

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01-26-2009, 07:00 PM

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I emailed Speedhut today suggesting this would be a good time to have a special on these gauges. They run sales pretty often, so hopefully the will come through.

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