New EL Gauge wiring? - Honda Prelude Forum

chester · 01-26-2007, 11:34 PM

So I was browsing eBay for random crap and came across this Integra Spoon cluster. Kinda neat, but nothing special. When I was reading the auction, this caught my eye:

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This unit will bolt directly onto a 96-97 Acura Integra but if it was to be installed onto a 94-95 OR 98-01 Integra then slight modification will have to be done. The Modification is simple, you would only have to remove the back plate from this Spoon Cluster and replace it with the back plate from the original cluster of the vehicle. The reasoning for this is that the wiring from the 94-95 and 98-01 will only work with the original backing plate made for that vehicle but once that backing plate is swapped onto the rear of the Spoon cluster the Spoon Cluster will be ready to install.

Is it possible that this could be true for our Preludes? I would try it myself, but I don't have my old wiring harness. The EL inverter would still be needed, but the rest of the boards should be similar.

sean1121 · 01-27-2007, 09:03 AM

Do you have pics of the back of that EL cluster you had? I doubt it would work since the old harness expects incandescent bulbs. I'd be interested to see some pics of an EL and non EL cluster side by side to compare though...

I have plenty of pics of a non EL cluster here: http://simnets.com/gallery2/v/prelud...ges/?g2_page=2

chester · 01-27-2007, 02:42 PM

I don't have many pictures of it, but I still have the Si EL cluster in my vehicle.

Bertico78 · 01-27-2007, 03:47 PM

I've taken apart both the Analog and EL cluster many times and the circuit boards are entirely different. It couldn't possibly work.