EL Dash and clock and climate mods **Pics**

[cheeza5]

Hi all, finally got around to posting up some of my interior mods.

[mcflux]

Looks great! Top work bruvva

PS get rid of the spanner :P

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

Looks great! Top work bruvva

PS get rid of the spanner :P

lol doing that right now!

[BaYa]

was it hard to do the cluster, how did you change the needle color cause thats mainly what i want to do and what bulbs/led's did you use ?

[devilracer_01]

I wouldnt mind going the blue LED's in the dash of my EL. Is it a fair amount of work to install it all though???

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by devilracer_01

I wouldnt mind going the blue LED's in the dash of my EL. Is it a fair amount of work to install it all though???

it not to hard, i get the LED's of ebay this guy. Link
then its a matter of unscrewing the dash and replacing the globes. 9 in total in think.(remove the old ones and put the new LED's in.)

Originally Posted by BaYa

was it hard to do the cluster, how did you change the needle color cause thats mainly what i want to do and what bulbs/led's did you use ?

as above the guy of ebay is great. for the needles i sanded of the backing color(with 800 sand paper) and painted with whiteout and thats it!

can be done in a afternoon.

[Sorted]

Nice work and you went that bit extra and changed the colour of the odometer and clock (ps you have a bulb out on your clock), only got the climate control display to do but you cant rush these things

32 on the climate contol, do you live where there is snow lol

[yahoo189]

nice, really nice.

[LiL_Macka]

That looks awesome man, I might just do that on the Macka EL.

Keep up the good work,

Regards Macka!

[BaYa]

Originally Posted by cheeza5

as above the guy of ebay is great. for the needles i sanded of the backing color(with 800 sand paper) and painted with whiteout and thats it!

can be done in a afternoon.

sweet, what bulb type was it ?

[nicko_bud]

Hey cheeza,

Looking good man... All you need now is to write up a howto and be everyones buddy

Nicko_bud

[Mitch_]

how'd u get the trip/odo dispay to light up so bright. i put blue in and it was too hard to read so i put the orange back in. wat did u use?

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by BaYa

sweet, what bulb type was it ?

used these for the climate.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/2pcs-501-Wide...QQcmdZViewItem
and these for the rest-
T 10(size) http://cgi.ebay.com.au/2pcs-T10-W5W-...QQcmdZViewItem

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by Mitch_

how'd u get the trip/odo dispay to light up so bright. i put blue in and it was too hard to read so i put the orange back in. wat did u use?

you need to pull the display apart, it has a orange filter that needs to be removed, then cut some normal white paper the right shape and put it where the orange filter was and thats it. make sure that you sand the leds so that they are round and frosted, so that the light is displaced in all directions.

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by nicko_bud

Hey cheeza,

Looking good man... All you need now is to write up a howto and be everyones buddy

Nicko_bud

mmm. i might just do that in the next few weeks.

feel free to PM and i will answer questions.

Cheers Daniel

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by DRHEMI

Nice work and you went that bit extra and changed the colour of the odometer and clock (ps you have a bulb out on your clock), only got the climate control display to do but you cant rush these things

32 on the climate control, do you live where there is snow lol

nar no snow, heater does not work 100% so it stays on 32 till the car is warm.

i am happy with the climate control display as it is.(it might be hard to see but it is red) the filter can not be removed without un-soldering the display, so i am not to keen on doing that. just to make it blue.

yeah the clock light is a , the light takes a different type of bulb so i manufacturing one up.

[cheeza5]

some more pics

[-jjM-]

well done, great mods, i like colour too......

[EdFairmontGhia]

looking good, you've inspired me to pull my finger out and convert the rest of my dash and gear indicators to match the cluster.
What has it set you back so far? I've heard some people using a blue plastic folder to replace the inserts... Did you just use the white paper over the existing orange ones?

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by EdFairmontGhia

looking good, you've inspired me to pull my finger out and convert the rest of my dash and gear indicators to match the cluster.
What has it set you back so far? I've heard some people using a blue plastic folder to replace the inserts... Did you just use the white paper over the existing orange ones?

Hi, Yeah i just used white paper instead of the orange inserts.
total cost i reckon about 30-40 dollars.
i get all my stuff from this guy of ebay.

http://stores.ebay.com.au/warden-jp2002

if you need any help let me know

Cheers Daniel

[Nashy86]

Looking good Cheeza!

Has anyone tried this on the digi EB dash? Is it the same as doing the odometer on the pics shown?

[ilsautomotive]

Top effort mate, looks great.

For anyone doing it though, these bulbs (from the same supplier who I also highly recommend) are generally regarded as the best all rounders.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2pcs-...9519QQtcZphoto

Cheers!

[Falcon Oath!!]

i used a set of 3-d glasses,and cut up the blue lens for the odometer and the red lens lens for the trip computor,but your glowing blue needles on the cluster looks great!!
Oh well,that's something else for "To Do" list
Good on yer!

[DBourne]

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...5/DSC00345.jpg
dude!! i wish my dash looked like that :(

i wouldnt be confident enough to do it myself though ...
i come to melbourne each year for xmas if u feel like making a little bit of dosh ;) haha

[cheeza5]

Originally Posted by SgtBourne

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n...5/DSC00345.jpg
dude!! i wish my dash looked like that :(

i wouldnt be confident enough to do it myself though ...
i come to melbourne each year for xmas if u feel like making a little bit of dosh ;) haha

it really not that hard, there is a tutorial on ford mods, i will try and find it. the difference to the tutorial is that you can get LED with resistors all ready in them, so it makes it super easy, no soldering or anything!

[snypereb]

Well done love the blue.