Hey, for anyone who has done a guage swap on a 94+ or just taken apart their dash and EL cluster to gawk, is the material that makes the guage glow blue attached to the inside of the clear plastic window pane that stretches across the dash, or is it behind the guages on the driver's side and layered over the fuel/temp meter? Thanks if you can help.
sorry, I should've been a lot more specific I guess. You mean that you layered your blue acetate (or equivilent) behind the guages and over the fuel/temp. What I meant to ask was about the material that makes the guages, unmodified, shine the color that they do (I guess it's closer to a green than blue). My motive may shine some light on the subject: I want to make my guages red, but if I just layer acetate like you did, it'll make it a sickly red-green color, or worse, maybe purple. I was told by several other users that I should consider removing the material that adds color to the guages, I wanted to know exactly where that material resides. Since you've actually done the mod, when you were looking at the guages after removing the plastic panel and dash, did you happen to notice where the green material was? Thanks.
Well, what makes the gages green is a translucent paint. In order to remove it you would need to remove the overlay and scratch/scrape the stock paint off. When doing this you will have to be VERY careful not to remove any of the black paint that defines the borders. Take a look at my sig, I had to scrape the redline back to the proper VTEC position and then up to VTEC engagement. I then put some blue acetate behind it and that is what I got.
That's sweet, I like how you put a bar for VTEC engagement too. Do you think it's possible, if done carefully, to scrape off the stuff? Also, where is it on the fuel/temp guage? Because aren't those guages just EL without any kind of plastic guage cover? Thanks
right, so they probably just glow bluish/green on their own... Although I find that hard to fathom, I've also never taken my dash apart so I can't really say one way or the other. I've always wanted that "german" look red lights throughout the cabin. Don't get me wrong, the bright green-blue is still cool, people still get in my car and say "wow, I've never seen that before", but red would be saweet.
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