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[Aequitas_Veritas]

Ok guys, heres my options:

1) This is the way I originally planned to do this, in fact I was gonna go home this weekend and get it done, but now im not so sure. My idea can be read about here:
http://volvospeed.com/vs_forum/index.php?s...1982&hl=Cluster
Heres a pic taken off that like in case you dont want to read it


Unfortunatly, you would also need to light it from behind with this idea, the white spray paint wouldnt work. Basically I would light the gauges from behind with blue LEDs and then use the blacklights to make the needles glow red or oarnge. I would also still mirror tint the inside of the gauges.

But last weekend I tried to shine a black light onto the gauges to see how it would look and there are these little triangles that show up that I think are used to calibrate the gauges. I would need to paint over these, but I couldnt paint the whole face over cause of all the detail work around the numbers, so im worried it will look bad.

2) Heres a 2nd option I discovered recently from a link off volvospeed actually. The site is called ImportIntelligence.com, or more specifically:
http://68.45.160.205/FMPro?-DB=cart.fp3&-F...ndex.html&-Edit
Heres some pics of the examples:

(this would be how mine would look, just in the volvo.


Now I think this would look alot more OEM then the black lights, but its also almost $80, now do you think its worth it to buy the seperate needle lights or just go with my original plan?


GIVE ME ADVICE PEOPLE!!

[theunderlord]

excellent Paul... keep up the good work... looks amazing so far..

[boostjunkie]

HAHA, do alot of thinking last night
Man this is going to look sweet when it is done, believe me people I have seen his dash so far and is is bitchin!
Hope someone can steer you in the right direction.

[Aequitas_Veritas]

haha, no pictures till its done, you should of seen it at the meet doug!

[Aequitas_Veritas]

bump. so I can have more then 4 opinions on this

[Plan_B]

Can you do that to my car?, I love the first picture with the red and blue!

I want my car like that

[dancetheman]

wow both look cool
i think you should try the free one first....
or the less expensive one...

[Aequitas_Veritas]

Ok I lied, I finished converting the radio today:


Heres a teaser shot of the shifter:




And heres the radio I just finished today:

[550]

paul.... Darn nice Darn nice. Would that import intel place do the whole cluster over again, or are you just getting the lighted needles? I think the lighted needles is a cool idea. Another thing to think about is how hard and feasible is the blacklight thing going to be. But how cool will the black light thing look (Darn cool). But like I said worth the trouble?

From the looks of it you have gone through alot of trouble already (alot of cussing too I bet). So it is hard to say :-\

But good work so far!
-Joe

[Zulu]

Wooooooowwwwwwwwww I like that, on the shifter especially. Do mine do mine!

[HPTDoh]

allow me to pick my jaw up from the floor... NICE!!! especially on the shifter and the radio!

[Kaotic Kreationz]

Wow that looks awesome. How hard is this to do? Just need leds and the right resistors and just wire it up or is it more complicated than that? Im sure its harder on the radio but on like the heated seat switchs and the like is it hard? Would love to do something like this. Cant wait to see it when its all done. I like the blacklight idea but it seems a little complicated to pull off but I say try it since it doesnt cost as much. Either way it will look nice.

-Justin