Looks like a "Poor Old N*gar Thought It A Cadillac"





or an Audi, cool job man

 

i was about to say the exact same thing...looks real nice during day time, i guess seeing it in person does it more justice than pics. 10 cool points for doing the job yourself.

 

Thanks for your feedback guys!! I'm happy with the finished product. Sorry for the blurry pics, the gauges are nice on the eyes and very clean!

 

The bulbs behind the cluster show up as a white/blue because its a normal 194 bulb, with a light blue gel cap that covers the bulb.At least thats how it is on my '95.

 

myke321 said he used Chris's link, which is to mod the dash to FIT 194s. So...are the 95-96s different from 97s+...chris has a 97+ and made that page. but myke said he used the mod.....which is it

 

so would red LED's look different than the bulbs?

 

I didn't use the mod...You only have to use the mod for 98's and up. The 194's fit right in my 96.

 

You used polargs? and is it more white that blue that shows? or vice versa?

 

that tac is huge. personal opin though.

we have a stock tac. its next to the speedo

 

95-97 HAVE 194
98-99 DO NOT, THEY HAVE TO MODIFY IT

 

yeah its so little at times i lose it! plus our stock tach doesn't have that cool shift light!

 

Here are mine Red Gauges. I used regular red 194 from Autozone (sorry, don't remember the brand). At night they look nice and red, but I wish they were more bright, during the day and evening it sucks cause they are pinkish or not visible at all. First I wanted to get either 4LED 194 bulbs, but guys say they have hot spots, I don't want that, so probably will try this 6LED 194 from superbrightleds.com

or this 1LED bulb.

Another alternative are Polargsm but they are costly and some guys said they may melt sockets a little because of the higher wattage.

My gauges:

 

yeah those look pink to me.

 

does anyone know which led would be better? are there really hot spots with the 4 led bulbs? and if so, wouldnt there inherently also be hot spots with the 6 led bulbs? is the single the way to go?

 

So is it 5 or 7!? Arg! I keep getting conflicting info! I hear its 5 194's and then 7? Can someone confirm this?

 

My 96 took 5 bulbs...

 

lol, thanks kevlo for clearing that up, like usual

 

Does anyone happen to have an extra Polarg Hyperwhite 194 they could sell me? I just need one as I bought 4 and since I only need 5 I was wondering if someone here had an extra one for sale.

 

i suggest e-bay, you could get it cheap and bright as well...or look in for sale forum

 

get used to it, people are going to keep asking the same question over and over and never learn.

 

Wow, your car is about to turn 100k in that pic, pretty cool.

 

about an hour after that post some MORON made thread on what bulb hte 98+ uses.

 

made an entire thread? awww, kevlo calm down, im sorry people are stupid, but that happens

 

OK guys, I did lots of search today but still did not arrive to the conclusion what bulbs would give the brightest red. Did anyone deal with this, tried different bulbs in?

 

the only bad ting is that i would not match the rest of the buttons in the car. ok clear this up, on a 97......what kind of bulbs will i need. 194's?

 

holy christ you have to be sh!tting me manualmax

 

snx lets see what was said............

SNX: you did the mod to fit 194s? they look good, i got the stock gauges still...so red on black would be nice. Someone do this with blue so i know what it looks like

myke321:You only have to do that MOD for 97's and up.

kevlo911:98 and up, 95-97 have the same thing(194)

so which one is it snx???? who is right?????
Holy christ i hope i am not ****ting you. sorry cause so much frustation in your day.

where's a f-you smiley when you need one??????

 

I tried those 1 LED bulbs from superbrightleds.com. I had the white ones but they make my speedo and fuel gauge look blue and my tach and temp gauge look kind of purple. I think it would look fine with red though, the color will probably be more even then with the white.

Has anyone tried PIAA bulbs for a superwhite look, and if so what ones?

 

I put 97 by mistake, thought i fixed that in another post Ment to put 98 and up. SNX whas correct

Get it? Got it? GOOD!

 

So were those 1 LED bulbs brighter than your stocj bulbs. Though you say there was some miscoloration, was improvement visible?

Thanks!

 

those look good.

 

for one, i was right as shown in the post below

Secondly.... my screen name is THREE LETTERS LONG! why is this a spelling issue?!

 

so what does the rest of ur dash look like

 

what do you use on 99s?

 

and some pics with digital odom whould be nice!

 

from what I understand, someone else did this mod on their red 99 se-l. . . except since the 98/99 does not use 194's stock, he opened up the cluster and did some soldering to get the 194's to fit. (194's are NOT going to work on 98-99 without some electrical knowledge and skill) He used white bulbs though, and from the pics he took they look amazing, just like lexus / new accord gauges.

 

thats right, his 99 se-L (chris to be exact) used 194s after he did the mod. the link you see on this page was made by him, showing how to do the mod, very helpful, and it looks killer.

 

The brightness was about the same and looks fine, but the side with the tach looks slightly darker if you're looking for it, probally shouldn't be a problem with a color like red or blue though.

 

anyone has red polargs in gauge cluster?
How do they look

 

they look pretty good. I personally like the way they look stock in the SE...with the white in the day with black numbers and exactly reversed at night.
I just cannot read the red as easily though.