white bulbs turned my dash blue...

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Nah I just noticed that. I just went for a second look and there it was. Never noticed it before. Or maybe I just forgot that I saw those #s before. Who knows?


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ic... i got the jdm gauge cluster bc i was lucky, found a guy who just wanted to get rid of stuff left over from his sr swap. at the time my odometer was messed up, and since i put in the jdm cluster, my odometer drives in kilometers...

i ordered a usdm odometer from quiksilvia... shouldve come today or tomorrow, i guess tomorrow hopefully

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I know they're our sponsors and all, but I've known about this company for a long time. why don't you just invest in some nice needles? they look VERY nice.

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"2 Large Needles & 2 Small - $69.90"

thats why.

AND... ive taken needles off before... and it totally f'ed up my needles. they wouldnt "fall" normally. when you would drive, the speedometer would slowly fall back down, giving you an inaccurate reading. thats why i also changed to the sr speedometer, my old one was screwed up

they look nice and all... but just too expensive for me

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Yea thos are pretty hot. Maybe if a professional did it, it'll work fine.

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I see...so you're not interested in the price and you screwed up some needles before. gotcha

wangless
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and i like how things are simple. i like stock looking things... but with a twist... but not too complicated. like the indiglo gauges... i dont like the white faces... but at night they look nice. its just that in the day time i dont like them.

but to simply change the gauge colors at night... to either blue/red... youll get my attention. and my "ooo's" and "ahhh's"

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I added red bulbs to my gauge cluster and I got red results. I put green bulbs in and I got green results. I'm not sure what the difference is between the S13 and S14, but I think if you got rid of the LEDs and used a regular bulb, you would be more satisfied. LEDs emit a concentrated light beam that is bright from the center while normal filament bulbs emit a wide beam that illuminates are larger space.

I could hook it up with some bulbs if you want, for free. If I remember correctly, you live near VIS in MPK. Near my friend with the gold Civic. Let me know vince..

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whoa... havent heard from you in a long time. vis doesnt look like it exists anymore though, i dont see any fixed up cars there.

on the back of my guages are a blue tinge, guess thats why it comes out blue. and i got the convex leds, that suppositly spread the light out, as oppsed to just the concentrated light.

yeah, i still see that gold civic once in a while. did you happen to drive by me recently though? there was this 240, forgot the specifics of it, but the driver was looking at me... and i was looking to see if it was you... but then again, i dotn know what you look like. was hoping the driver would say something like... are you vince... haha, anyways

free bulbs... who could pass up FREE ?! hook it up then... 4 big 194s... and 4 small 74s... all red please =) and a dome... if its asking too much, i can give up some cash. dont want to abuse the power of free, wont see right.

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or actually, could you let me test out red, white, and blue ? just to compare/contrast, esp the white compared to the leds i have. 194s thanks


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