Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior Upgraded my Gauges!

I ordered the LED's to do this conersion about 10 months ago and just now got around to it. I've only done the LCD for right now. I will do the rest of the gauges another day. I love the way this looks!

I painted the needles blue too but I used to much so its too dark, I'll have to redo it tommorow.

wow i like it where did you buy the overlays and LEDs????

That looks really good. Red needles would be great too.

The overlays are the 3D S7 gauges. I got them from eBay . I got the LED's from the Hammer @ www.teamcelica.com [teamcelica.com]

I like the S7.

yeah i reallly like those S7 im condsidering changing mine. I got my LEDs from TC too

The needles on your car look really good. What did you use to paint them??

wow that's really nice..never thought of doing that to s7's..nice job

whoa! looks sic
how hard is the install?

looks good!

AC Autotechnic S7s! Yeah, those look great. I've got a lot of mods to work on. I've made a list.

damn those are s weet!!!

i used some hobby paint for like model cars and stuff. was only 2$ but i like your color

Those gauges are tite I've got my S7s sitting on my desk. Too cold to insall them for another 6 months though

This guys goin all out, gauges, brakes, XM...


lookin good

Good work!

Just re-solder the board bro. You have to change multiple L.E.D.s on the board. Not hard if you know how to solder.

go to http://www.rjautoworks.com/ledinstall.php
He's the originator of the l.e.d. switch a roo. You can purchase a new gauge face and the package deal here.

http://www.rjautoworks.com. That's all the info. you need to swap out your amber gauge. Just take your time.

good stuff i like it

Nice... i may have to change mine now too!
Anyone know where i can get some of those blue needles too? I think Lexus might have some..

did you change all the LEDs or did you only change the ones where your tripomitor is ?

Just the trip on those pics. I just finished replaceing all of them today. Pics are coming soon!

Just take some paint thinner and alcohol to the current needles to take off the orange paint. Then I used a blue sharpie to color them blue

I got up this morning and finished replacing the rest of the LED's. Now it's all blue. I also lightened the blue on the needles.

The needles look a lot better now in my opinion

this is just a overall pic of the inside

looks nice

I got mine for Sean, the led guy...i haven't installed them yet and i have the S7 gauges as well, I have super green!! nobody i know or heard of has them..i can't wait to get them installed...yours looks awesome

hey barrett where did you get your switches in ur ash tray. And was it easy to do the needles? So jsut paint thinner and alchohola dna simple shrpie? Any special technique used ? Looks awsome by the way. I was i knew how to sodder or atleast knew someone in gainesville who could do it for me. Oh and waht kind of blue lighting did you put behind ur ac controlls?

what did you do for the tiny rectangle for the power windows button, i havent seen anyone who has changed that thing, i want to have all blue like you, but i just dont want to have all blue and one tiny orange rectangle! help!! hope you guys know what im talking about

good ? was wondering that myself. Coudl just open'er up and see. wehn i take a break from studiig, damn school i will cehck it out.

that looks awesome!!

looks nice!

Any other questions???
-I no longer have the ashtray switches but I got them at Pep Boys
-Yes it was very easy to do the needles. The hardest part was getting the speedo right again (it was 5 miles ahead)because I had to take the needles off to do it.
Behind the ac is a 3 in neon tube accompanied by a long strand of neon wire wrapped around in there.

hope that answers all your questions.
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I'm pretty sure its just another LED. I had an extra that I was gonna use for it but that LED lost its life in a horrible soldering accident

That is so cool... How hard was it to do the LED's? Im kinda afraid to mess with mine..

kool thats good then, but what about the clock? i herd it was a bitch to make blue

hey bro, sorry for all of the ?'s 1 l;ast one, coudl i do the needles w/o taking them off? the underside will prob be orange. I jsut dont want to take off the needles adn have to mess with the recalibration. U didnt have to take them off to install the s7's right? Thansk again man. Car looks awsome.

i need to make mine blue

looks sicc

my clock and power windows button are stock blue?
must b an aussie thing

THose s7 gauges remind me of an IS200!!
U reckon they come in km/h??

If you are really careful you can slide the S7 gauges under the needles, however, the numbers part is actually a piece of plastic that sticks to the gauges that you have to put on BEFORE you put the overlays on. While there is a "outline" of where the numbers go, you probably won't have all the indicators lined up just right (ie Cruise, BRAKE, seatbelt, CEL). I hope you understand what I was saying. here is a pic of my gauges when I just slid them under the needles, as you can see the indicators look weird because they don't completly line up. If you look at my recent pic at the beginning of this post you can see they line up perfect now

sweet bro.. after seeing Stephen do his s7 gauges i was instantly in love and all over them! Im getting these for sures!

N I C E

how come they didnt line up right when you slid them on as opposed ot take off the needles?

looks good. not too many people have that setup either

what paint did you use to
paint the needles?

i hear you cna jsut use a blue sharpie. i dont want to take my needels off so i am going to jsut do the sides and top. hope it will look ok. Also can i jsut use nail polish remover to get hte orange off??