My new gauge cluster Sweet!
05-28-2009, 11:11 PM
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http://6litereaterdesigns.com/store/...cPath=21_37_65
Anything else you'd either have to put in a LOT of work yourself like he did or pay someone a LOT of money to do the work you don't want to do
05-28-2009, 11:35 PM
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I love the way this looks. Much time and some money have been spent to get them to look just right.
Parts:
2 RX8 clusters, used the needles
1 C5 Cluster, used the gauge rims
The tach needle is just ever so slightly hiting the overlay. But over all I think its nice.
Now I need the LED conversion...
Parts:
2 RX8 clusters, used the needles
1 C5 Cluster, used the gauge rims
The tach needle is just ever so slightly hiting the overlay. But over all I think its nice.
Now I need the LED conversion...
Make one for me....just kidding.....unless you really want to
09-05-2010, 09:50 AM
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I know this is an old post but someone is selling rx8 needles on the forum and they said to search for your post.... the cluster looks AWESOME! im gonna have to look into doing this!!! did you wind up doing the LEDs??? if so, do you have a night shot??
09-07-2010, 10:28 AM
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I was just looking in this section and found my old post....
Yeah, I went to LED in the cluster.
No joke I spent a few Franklins...I bought 2 RX8 clusters and a C5 cluster. My original plan was to use the needles and the black light leds from RX8. They have these cool "pockets" where the LED sits in. I also have a couple TA clusters to mod, so my best one was without the black lights. Keep in mind the RX8 cluster only has 4 needles so you need 2 clusters. I found them for cheap on ebay back then. The c5 was used for the bezel. In the end this mod was worth it to me since its in your face when you drive...
Yeah, I went to LED in the cluster.
No joke I spent a few Franklins...I bought 2 RX8 clusters and a C5 cluster. My original plan was to use the needles and the black light leds from RX8. They have these cool "pockets" where the LED sits in. I also have a couple TA clusters to mod, so my best one was without the black lights. Keep in mind the RX8 cluster only has 4 needles so you need 2 clusters. I found them for cheap on ebay back then. The c5 was used for the bezel. In the end this mod was worth it to me since its in your face when you drive...
09-07-2010, 11:05 AM
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I thought that the needles needed to be weight specific?
I remember Mark writing a post about how they had to be a certain weight or they would not read correctly...
I remember Mark writing a post about how they had to be a certain weight or they would not read correctly...
09-07-2010, 04:38 PM
#36
I thought of that. I removed the weights from the original needles and glued them on the RX8 needles. At the time I bought all the stuff I didn't know 6le had them. Besides, my original plan was to use th C5 overlay since I wanted the speedo to read 200mph BUT the overlay on the C5 isn't transparent. SO after looking at the C5 closer, they used a black light setup. This is why I needed the RX8 cluster for the black LEDs. HOWEVER after seeing I couldn't even use the C5 needles, lets say I was pissed...
They were too small. So that TA cluster idea was scrap since I modded it to fit the the black light pockets. So this is where I went with the 6le overlay, modded the C5 bezel to fit the TA cluster and used the RX8 needles with LEDS. Now I may mod my stock LT1 overlay with the Rx8 needles and buy the blue needles for the LS TA. I will say getting a factory clean look was the goal. The cluster to me is something as important as any visual mod. We look at it many times and its the first thing you look at as you turn the key....lastly that cluster with the black light was going to be a bad mother!!
They were too small. So that TA cluster idea was scrap since I modded it to fit the the black light pockets. So this is where I went with the 6le overlay, modded the C5 bezel to fit the TA cluster and used the RX8 needles with LEDS. Now I may mod my stock LT1 overlay with the Rx8 needles and buy the blue needles for the LS TA. I will say getting a factory clean look was the goal. The cluster to me is something as important as any visual mod. We look at it many times and its the first thing you look at as you turn the key....lastly that cluster with the black light was going to be a bad mother!!
09-07-2010, 05:04 PM
#37
Other than that, the needles seem to be working out well with no problems. I might be showing a new design we tried with needles and see what you guys might think....maybe.
Oops, sorry for the
OP. And your cluster really shows the hard work put into it! 