Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior New mod! Blue needles, blue LCD Panel, and blue turn signals!

Well, I knew I couldnt do this by myself. So Billy (VSGTS14) reached out and helped a brotha. So we did this all tonight at my house and just finished around 11:30. Here are some pics!

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whoaa, that looks awesome

good job, now only if you have gotten gauges that read horizontally than vertically we'd be better off.

Lookin Good Timmy!

great mod

sweet... where'd you get the gauge leds and turn signals from?

sweet!

shit that is hot, wish i knew how to do that!

he got his LED's from team celica and for the turn signals, it was a matter of scratching off the green film on the back of the stock face and putting a blue source on the back of the stock face or the bulb or even both in his case to make it appear blue...he used a blue sharpie on the bulb and on the part we scraped off on the stock gauge face..


i did this to my wrx, scraped off green film, then put a blue condom over the bulb and they light up realllllll nice. i think the condoms are much nicer and told him he could switch it for a better effect whenever or see how it compares with his setup.


Tim's setup is awesome

sicc

where can i get those blue condoms at??? i want to use it for my dash!

Drug store? j/k

i got mine at www.partsexpress.com [partsexpress.com]
search for lamp covers, there are two sizes, so get a few of each.
i used them on my wrx dash and wasn't too satisfied...
so i made everything red with transparent paint and imo, blue transparent paint will be more blue and brighter than the condoms.
you can get blue transparent paint from here.
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXVT57&P=7
this is the same kind i have, but in red and it worked awesome on my HVAC and radio.

Sweet mod

awesome! :

lookin' good!

nice mod

that looks incredible...if only i had someone to help me

Tim, Did you take off the the old face or just put this one on top of it?

Thanks!

^^any AC gauge is placed over the stock gauge face, so yes, it is placed over the old face

Yeah thats what I did and the needle touches the gauge and gets stuck on the number plate when it gets above 4k on the tach.

Just thought if I removed the old gauge the needle would clear the face.

Your car looks fuckin ill.. i wish i could do that!
Ill pay someone around vegas to do that shit for me!!

removing the old face is like taking off .1 of a milliter off..it won't make a difference
he installed his just fine and htey don't touch at all...
you have to install them right and make sure they are stuck down all the way.

Christ billy, your on the ball!!

But yea... what Billy siad (about everything and then some)

SinCity - I was about to pay some dude and it would have costed around 80 bucks to get him to do it. But then Billy came and saved the day!

Oh and thanks everyone for the compliments!!

nice, any problems with needle recalibration?

Tim, Did you put anything on the needles? ie. sharpie or paint. Or is is just clear with the led light?

its always nice when other members help each other out.. and it turned out great

I have the leds. Which ones did you replace to make the needles glow blue? I only have 9 left, so in this pic which ones are the most necessary for the needles to glow properly?

Thanks!

I put blue sharpie on it and it turned out awesome. And the only ones you need to do for the needles are the ones for the gauges, and nothing for the LCD.

Id say, going from left to right, do the first 9 and it should turn out fine.

if you want your needles blue, then it's going to change the color of your gauges you know? you have to change the LED's marked with little yellow arrows in the pic.

no, recalibration on the celica is easy.
turn the key to ACC, then push the needle back on at the 0 position and then it's fine.

Yeah I just installed the same S7 gauges and was jus wondering if they all need to changed to blue to make the needles glow because I only have a few blue ones left.
But I think Tim answered it already. Thanks.

Now get blue lighting for the center console!

can you take morning pics? i wanna see how good it looks.

now when you seen how its done do you fhink you can do it your self???

Ill take one today when i get home from work. They look great in the day too! I didnt have time this morning, and I wasnt awake lol

I could deff do the needles, the recalibration of the needles, and the turn signals w/o a problem. But the soldering I've never really been good at. But after this I have more confidence to do that part myself. And Id deff try it, I dont know if id succeed though.

The S7 Gauges look great. Your interior must look awesome at night. Your next interior mod should be a replacement A Pillar with spots for 2 gauges.

hot mine will hopefully look as good when i'm done.. dunno if you changed ur dome light or not but i got a blue led bulb from www.superbrightleds.com [superbrightleds.com] ,gotta change my signals and ac controls still great work! hey anyone know the size of the light behind the ac pannel? i guess i could just use the "film" but i'd rather get a blue light..

Good Job Timo, looks nice

Wow...Cop's might pull me over!...thinkin I might be running some disco tech in there!...J\P...Nice Neon light job dude!!!...

S7 gauges are so nice. Good job. Btw do you remember wut the part number wuz for the blue LEDs for your needles and your LCD?

Sorry guys, I ran out of light because I didnt get home till late. So I didnt get to take the pics during the day. Ill take em tomorrow!

Chung - i bought the led's from teamcelica.com in the store. So there werent any part numbers.

wasn't that easy for me...and its still not fixed...

Tim did you do anything to make the gauges brighter, because mine arent really that bright as in your picture...

where are the morning pics timo?
someone bust "this post is worthless without pics"