Indiglo gauge Modification?

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scotty-2-forty
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Okay, I'm not a real trinkit oriented person ... more of a purpose driven performance individual. But bare with me (oooo, nudity), I have a silly question.

Can the indiglo gauges be modified somehow to light up with a "white" background at night??

Reason being, I have Autometer gauges which are white faced and light up white at night too. I like that. I'd like to match the OEM gauges to them. I had thought of putting blue bulbs in the gauges and using the blue indiglo conversion, but the color blue is actually a little fuzzy to me at night and tends to appear distorted; and I don't like green.

I'm not sure how the indiglo's work ... any electronics guru's out there? Thanks.


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Well, I don't know about your gauge question... But that 240 is SWEET!

Got any more pics? Man, that's sharp... :D

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AZhitman wrote:Well, I don't know about your gauge question... But that 240 is SWEET!

Got any more pics? Man, that's sharp... :D


I never thought I would SEE that!!!:oy:

Nice car, sorry dont know about the gauges.

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LOL @ TS... No way, man - I like that - Real clean looking, and those wheels and front lip look serious as all hell...

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I was thinking the same thing, I like them rims.

scotty, have you posted in the 240 General section?

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try putting in colored LED lights where the stock light goes into the gauges! you can find some cheap LEDs at http://www.partsexpress.com

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I'm going to do that same thing with my lights on my gauges... being that i have a car that came from Canada... so the guages read in Kilo and i haven't been able to find a indiglo gauges that read in Kilo so i'm just gonna take the lights out and drop in LEDS... cheaper and stock looking.. and its funy to full people saying i'm doing 180 when its really like 115mph... :)


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