jares99

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I know this isn't for everybody but I like it and it's something I don't see everyday, also it matches the head unit I just put in a lot better, overall turned out pretty good(I think) let me know what you all think (good or bad) if something would look better another way I would like ideas. The biggest issue I have is that there are hot spots on the gauge cluster and I will get an overlay soon.

YURVIEW

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Man that looks GREAT!!! I want to do that to mine, I'm just too lazy to get out there and start. lol. Great Job!!!

Starz T/A 17

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How exactly did you do that? just replace the bulbs? or are those overlays?

jares99

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Well I got camaro headlight switch and hvac controls used the front plate and blue led bulbs, the shifter blue led and very carefully scraped the red off of the back if you look you can see the numbers are bigger than normal(PITA), gauge cluster razor blade again to scrape red off of the back of it, the odometer is the thing that worried me the most since I havn't soldered for probably 10 years or more (took old led's off soldered some blue ones on, used a write up by ledgauges.com)

Irish350

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wow. didnt know you could do that with the odo.

ill have to do that while mine are out. thx for the info

do you have a link to that writeup btw?

Breathing Fire

Damn man that looks really good. I did all blue after I got my 6LE overlay, but my led choice was bad. Not very bright. What did you use for lights?

black_sheep454

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Looks good, don't know that I've got steady enough hand to do that

99'CajunFirehawk157

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FWIW I hear if you run 6smd leds in the gauge area it will do away with hot spots, where 5smd leds will cause hot spots...YMMV picke this up on 6le's site (the gauge overlay dude; Mark)

jares99

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http://www.ledgauges.com/id26.html here's the link to the odometer write-up,

lights I forget they have 5 leds on each bulb base would have to search to find a list of the bulbs but I forget right now

Having a steady hand is what I was worried about I have always had problems working on small items but it turned out and worked the first time, hardest issue with it was how short the leads need to be to fit back in the odometer housing.

I have also been looking at 6le and I figure if the overlay has the shading on the back (to make the light even) of if it there shouldn't be hot spots but since I used the stock overlay when I scrapped the red off I also had to scrape the shading that was over the red tint

jares99

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I might buy some 6smds, I do have the 5smds, I have read a lot of different posts saying what to buy and I thought I read to get the 5smds to keep from getting hot spots oh well leds don't cost to much.

98NBM1

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looks sick man, are those the controls i sent out to you?

Breathing Fire

See I did the 5 led ones listed in the thread with all the part #'s you need. They don't leave hotspots, but they just aren't very bright. They dim properly, but they just go from dim as hell to not so dim. Maybe i'll try some high power smt's or something like that.

Ls1CamaroGuy87

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Looks great....I went with red

Squirts11

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I've always been partial to the factory red gauges of the T/A's, but the combination of the gauges w/ deck and shift panel looks good.

How long did it take you?

jares99

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Yes they are!!!

All said and done probably 4-6 hours over the course of a week which also includes hooking up the radio, pretty straight forward but the parts that I had to scrape the red tint off of was time consuming not to screw it up, and the odometer took a bit also.

DaRReLL

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Badazz.......

Sommer86

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They look pretty good man! Congrats on having the cajones to do it! I've been debating doing my odometer too...but like you, i'm nervous, haha. but it came out great!

We found that with OUR overlays, the HP6 bulb works best. This is because there is no LED placed directly on top that MIGHT cause a hot spot. Instead, the light emitted from the LED's make a 360* pattern and that gives you all the light you need.



The HP5 below has a top mounted LED and we feel that that's what's been causing hot spots or soft lighting conditions. I've never heard anyone complain with the above LED's. They're also the ones i'm running in my car, 6LE's car and have installed in 5 other 6LE custom overlay cars. INCLUDING the cluster for a Dick Harrell car.




Jares99, Here's a link to my LED write up on 6LE's page. hope it helps a bit:

http://6litereaterdesigns.com/forum/...11225#msg11225