hey everyonbe Happy Easter! I got bored yesterday night so I decided to take some nighttime pics of the Max, inside and out. ( the inside pics need some work though lol, my camera had trouble yesterday). Feel free to comment and post your own pics, would be cool to see all your maxs at night.




Sylvania Silverstars at work hehehe



Changed the white ugly bulbs to high intensity Blue LEDs (expensive f***ers)



THE MAX



work in progress, still need to change the HU bulbs to blue and the Fuel Temp gauge to blue, will do it today most likely

 

nice, i like the bulbs in the door lights, i need to do somethign like that

 

cool, if you need help or something let me know. Best way to do it is to take a 1k resistor, solder it to the positive side of the LED, then take a piece of wire and solder one to the other lead of the resistor and the other piece to the negative side of the LED, dont try to solder the wires to the connectors in the door, it wont hold, but just wrap them around, ill try to take some pics of the socket and the LED in it. When you get the resistor try to get a 1/2 Watt power dissipation, that will protect your LEDs the best.

1K resistor colors: Brown, Black, Red in order.

 

i have blue led in the doors, just used the 194 led bulbs from pepboys. and they had the actual correct dome light bulb that was blue led also. about $20 in little led bulbs

 

euh.. u sure the're LEDs? usually a 194 bulb is just a white bulb painted blue. Mine are actual Light Emitting Diodes. the 194 blue bulbs i have in the gauge cluster casue a high intensity LED has a narrow beam and it wouldnt light up the panel correctly,but in the doors they're great, and they don't drain your battery so much.

 

If you guys want CHEAP LED's And lighting go to www.oznium.com I did my ford focus and I am doing the maxima next !! Talk to phil he's the owner and the customer service is like no other !!

Troy.

 

If you wan't to spread the light out on an LED then take a dremel to it and grind down the very top So it's not round (Make it flat) and it will diffuse the light, thus you can use them to light the guages up.


Troy.

 

you're right i haven't thaught about it. thanks for the idea. But i think ill just keep the regular blue bulbs in the gauges, the High intensity Led might drown the numbers in too much blue would be hard to see. ill run a test and maybe take some pics of it if my camera is up to it

 

they are led bulbs but the bottom of it fits in a 194 and they work perfect without any extra resistors or any thing

 

Nice I dig the blue lights

 

cool i didnt know they made them like that, will look for some. But i still like my expensive LEDs lol.

 

these were my cheap 194 bulbs from autoblown.......after time, they lost their color, but new they looked cool.. here is a pic......



and here is my guage pod that i had in my old 1991....

 

Vans- Did I read your sig correctly that you blew the tranny on the Stealth??

 

nice - haven't thought about led swapout. my gauges are all original and work pretty well. tach gauge operating erratic, but found another post on that.

 

kewl blue. i did all my stuff red :-p, door lights, headliner led's stripping. footrests. gauges and buttons red. ring around keyhole is red. trunk and glove box lights are red:-p