White face gauges...painted my needles

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I painted my ugly needles black and it looks pretty sweet. I wouldn't recommend doing it without white gauges though, , but against the white and against the blue glow it looks f'n sinister. Ill put up some pics later...for now heres a crappy one with my phone. I used spray paint but I didnt spray paint it, i put it in a cup and used a brush lol.

doesn't do it justice.

 

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nice! i took the bulbs out of mine, and installed a similar back glow white gauges, maby i will have to do that also

 

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Can you still read your odomoeter and trip thing? I was going to take the bulbs out, but wasnt sure. Yeah it really looks a lot better black instead of that orange color.

 

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i used a red sharpie on the back of the needle, worked very well.

Where did you guys run the wires to light up the new faceplates?

 

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deadlast said:

i used a red sharpie on the back of the needle, worked very well.

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How good a job does that do to make the needles more red (including at night).

I was thinking of using some translucent red pearl paint on mine. As I'm running the SpeedHut gauges, I didn't have to take the needles off, so I'd be painting on top of them.

 

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Where's the new pics?

I didnt want to color it, because I like the glowing effect of the orange needles.
RC

 

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illwood said:

How good a job does that do to make the needles more red (including at night).

I was thinking of using some translucent red pearl paint on mine. As I'm running the SpeedHut gauges, I didn't have to take the needles off, so I'd be painting on top of them.

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very nice, it makes it look like the entire needle has a red tint, very strong at night.

where can i run my wires?

 

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deadlast said:

very nice, it makes it look like the entire needle has a red tint, very strong at night.

where can i run my wires?

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You take out one of the bulbs (with holder) and remove the light bulb piece from the holder piece...THEN, you insert the holder back in, and pinch the 2 power wires (for the gauges) with the holder, pinning them against the metal contacts of the cluster.

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can you plz tell me exactly where you got those gauges?? im lookin for some!