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Posted by: timothy_nd28 Aug 15 2013, 11:24 PM
I'm offering a service to retrofit the backlighting on your gauge cluster. I will sell DIY kits for $200.00, which will include the RGB led strips, controller/remote, and wire needed to install this into your car.
Full service is also available for $300.00. I will do all the labor with installing these LED's, paint the needles and do other cosmetic work which also includes replacing the plastic lenses with glass (if needed). For an extra 100 dollars, I will convert your tachometer to a modern air core servo tach that will work with any 4,6 or 8 cylinder engines.
Some sample backlight colors you can choose with a simple push of a button on the remote control.
Below is a video showing some extra features that the controller can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byh23MwiMLY
All the gauges illuminate red when the gas gauge gets too low. There is also a tachometer sensing circuit in the controller, that will change the background color at different RPM's (you tell me what RPM's, I then calibrate the controller to your settings)
Posted by: Garold Shaffer Aug 16 2013, 09:02 AM
This is a great setup. Tim had them on display at our recent 914 BBQ. A great addition to your car.
Posted by: Mblizzard Sep 7 2013, 07:33 PM
Got them and they rock! Would highly recommend this to all. Besides the cool factor, it is a real safety improvement. The ability to actually be able to see your gauges is a real and tangible upgrade even if you set it to display factory color.
When I installed mine, I thought I had made a mistake in the fuel gauge wiring. But I thought I had more gas than in the tank. Well on a drive going around a curve, all the dash lights change to red! Yep it was working fine and it kept me from driving because I knew I had more gas. Sweet. Very sweet.
Posted by: monkeyboy Sep 16 2013, 11:39 AM
I am loving my kit. Tim is a really good person to work with, and his LED's really do the job well.
I'd recommend it to any car where seeing the gauges at night is desired!
Posted by: LINGO Oct 29 2013, 09:12 PM
Tim how do we contact you to set this up?
Phone #?
Email?
Website?
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Oct 30 2013, 04:42 AM
As of right now PM is the best way. Hopefully in the near future I will have a website up and running.
Posted by: jimkelly Dec 15 2013, 07:51 AM
these lights are much nicer than stock, in several ways : )
and he can make your stock tach work with a 4, 6 or 8 cylinder motor.
flipping thru come of the colors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDCp5jcSfI
rpm warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-u_CQv0jo
Posted by: rdauenhauer Dec 16 2013, 02:05 PM
What about the tach conversion as an stand alone option?
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Dec 16 2013, 03:26 PM
Tach conversion by itself is 150.00. I'll discount 50 dollars if you are having me do the LED lighting mod.
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Dec 19 2013, 09:18 PM
Many thanks to Jim for taking time in making a pictorial of where my wires go.
Folks with the basic controller, never mind the black and purple wire.
Posted by: rdauenhauer Dec 23 2013, 03:22 PM
Bummer I had already gotten my gauges updated by the time you introduced this option.
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Dec 23 2013, 03:25 PM
Send it to me, I'll grandfather you in 
Posted by: Mblizzard Feb 3 2014, 03:00 PM
Just sent my center gauges in for the custom lights. Also sent my tach in for the up date. I always hated how the tach bounced.
Posted by: wndsnd Feb 20 2014, 03:23 PM
Just got my guages from Timothy and I am dually impressed. Anyone hesitating should pull the trigger. The quality of the guage restoration is concours and I would not hesitate to put them in any car.
Tim is a good communicator and doing business with him is a pleasure. I will have these installed on my car in time for Hershey this year so if you want to see them first hand look me up, or send me a PM.
John
Posted by: Mblizzard Feb 20 2014, 03:36 PM
I will have to agree with John. Just got my center gauges back. The pictures don't do them justice but getting the full restore is more than worth it. These look brand new!
Tim is a great guy to work with and the results of his work amazing.
Posted by: 914itis Feb 20 2014, 04:18 PM
I did mine a few months ago, they look decent but nothing like Tim's. I decided to pull the trigger and sent them out to him yesterday.
I am so anxious.
Tim is a great guy and asset to the world. His patience is out of this world.
Hes not in it for the money, just puts a smile on his face being able to help a world member.
Thumbs up for Tim.
Posted by: rdauenhauer Feb 22 2014, 12:04 AM
Thumbs up!!
Great customer Service
Thanks Tim
Posted by: etcmss Feb 28 2014, 02:48 PM
gages installed and pleased with results. pictures of white/green/blue/red
Gary
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Posted by: Harpo Mar 23 2014, 11:27 AM
Good afternoon Tim. What is the lead time to have this & tach. upgrade performed.
Thanks
DAvid
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Mar 26 2014, 04:50 PM
Turn around time is typically 2-3 days.
These are FourBlade's gauges that I just restored. Finding the polished aluminum bezels took way longer than 2-3 days, but well worth the wait. These will look good at night.
Posted by: Mblizzard Mar 26 2014, 10:01 PM
Turn around time is typically 2-3 days.
These are FourBlade's gauges that I just restored. Finding the polished aluminum bezels took way longer than 2-3 days, but well worth the wait. These will look good at night.
Awesome look! May have to,send mine back for a refit!
Posted by: balljoint Mar 27 2014, 05:23 PM
Sweet!
Posted by: FourBlades Mar 30 2014, 07:57 PM
I sent Tim the rusty and nasty old tach and speedo that came with my car originally.
He made them look brand new again.
Better than new with the chrome bezels! 
Can't wait to get them installed.
He cheerfully took care of all my special requests.
John
Posted by: orthobiz Apr 9 2014, 09:12 PM
Just installed mine and it is super cool! Thanks, Tim.
Paul
Posted by: beam944 Apr 25 2014, 06:50 PM
Is there anyway to change the RPM range on the face to 10,000 ? I am doing a sbc 283 build with a red line of around 9-9500 and would love to keep the stock gauges.
Posted by: linwoodbarnes@aol.com Aug 9 2015, 04:17 PM
I'm interested in your service but didn't see the link for the name of your company,where you're located etc.
I'm offering a service to retrofit the backlighting on your gauge cluster.
Full service is also available for $300.00. I will do all the labor with installing these LED's, paint the needles and do other cosmetic work which also includes replacing the plastic lenses with glass (if needed). For an extra 100 dollars, I will convert your tachometer to a modern air core servo tach that will work with any 4,6 or 8 cylinder engines.
Some sample backlight colors you can choose with a simple push of a button on the remote control.
Below is a video showing some extra features that the controller can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byh23MwiMLY
All the gauges illuminate red when the gas gauge gets too low. There is also a tachometer sensing circuit in the controller, that will change the background color at different RPM's (you tell me what RPM's, I then calibrate the controller to your settings)
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Sep 16 2015, 09:09 PM
This service I offer is a side hobby of mine. I do these from my house in Indiana, PM me for shipping info
Posted by: rnellums Sep 17 2015, 07:14 AM
I can't believe I hadn't posted about my experience here yet!
Tim worked closely with me to develop a gauge set that would work with my Subaru conversion.
Not only was I able to keep the clean stock look of the dash, but it ended up being significantly less expensive than buying new aftermarket gauges!
Now I also have very brightly lit gauges that transition to from white to bright red as I pass into the powder band. It makes driving at night even more enjoyable!
Posted by: green914 May 23 2016, 05:55 PM
Saw a set of your gauges auctioned off at WCR; they looked awesome.
Thank you for being one of the WRC sponsors.
Posted by: mepstein May 23 2016, 06:10 PM
I can't believe I hadn't posted about my experience here yet!
Tim worked closely with me to develop a gauge set that would work with my Subaru conversion.
Not only was I able to keep the clean stock look of the dash, but it ended up being significantly less expensive than buying new aftermarket gauges!
Now I also have very brightly lit gauges that transition to from white to bright red as I pass into the powder band. It makes driving at night even more enjoyable!
Well I guess I will have to hit Tim up when it's time to do my suby gauges.
Posted by: Tjmrfe Jul 25 2016, 03:57 PM
Turn around time is typically 2-3 days.
These are FourBlade's gauges that I just restored. Finding the polished aluminum bezels took way longer than 2-3 days, but well worth the wait. These will look good at night.
Posted by: Tjmrfe Jul 25 2016, 03:59 PM
I can't believe I hadn't posted about my experience here yet!
Tim worked closely with me to develop a gauge set that would work with my Subaru conversion.
Not only was I able to keep the clean stock look of the dash, but it ended up being significantly less expensive than buying new aftermarket gauges!
Now I also have very brightly lit gauges that transition to from white to bright red as I pass into the powder band. It makes driving at night even more enjoyable!
Well I guess I will have to hit Tim up when it's time to do my suby gauges.
Hi, was wondering....do you sell replacement glass?
I need one of the 60mm for my volt meter.
Thanks...Terry.
Posted by: Guberif Jul 28 2016, 10:36 AM
Hello Tim!
AWESOME Gauge Lighting! 
I would love for you to do this to mine!
Question, can you also correspond my aftermarket (vdo's) head temp, oil pressure, and voltage gauges to change with the main gauges, that would be too cool!
Also, is there any way to make the spedo brighter? That's my main problem (tickets) never have problems knowing when to shift. just knowing when to let up off the skinny pedal on the right!
Although, do have tendencies to blow up these engines, can you red adjust the head temp gauge?
I've already gone thru these gauges & replaced lenses to glass and everything else I could think of.
Just tell me where to send them, how much it will be and what type of payment your preference is. 
Thank's
Bonnie
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Sep 25 2016, 10:13 PM
Sorry, I forgot I had this ad on here. Thanks Bonnie, we already talked via PMs and all questions have been answered.
Posted by: JoeD Sep 19 2017, 08:05 AM
Tim, got to see your work in person at Okteenerfest. The gauges you donated as a raffle prize were absolutely gorgeous, and I'm not the only one that was drooling over them. Absolute works of art!
If I didn't need brakes more than gauges at the moment I would be sending my gauges to you instead of ordering calipers from PMB (since I didn't win THAT raffle, either)... but your gauges are next on my list!
Thanks for the generous donation!
Posted by: malcolm2 Sep 19 2017, 08:09 AM
Tim, got to see your work in person at Okteenerfest. The gauges you donated as a raffle prize were absolutely gorgeous, and I'm not the only one that was drooling over them. Absolute works of art!
If I didn't need brakes more than gauges at the moment I would be sending my gauges to you instead of ordering calipers from PMB (since I didn't win THAT raffle, either)... but your gauges are next on my list!
Thanks for the generous donation!
Posted by: Mblizzard Sep 19 2017, 08:20 AM
Meant to send this to you. This is what your entry box looked like after just the first few hours of entries! 
Posted by: timothy_nd28 Sep 19 2017, 12:57 PM
That is awesome! I appreciate the kind words
Posted by: mepstein Sep 19 2017, 01:35 PM
This set that Timmothy made was waiting for me when I got home from Octeenerfest. I opened the box at the shop and the guys assumed I had spent $1,500 at North Hollywood.
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Posted by: mepstein Sep 19 2017, 01:43 PM
I didn’t win the pmb raffle either but luckily, Eric makes thes available to everyone. They were also waiting for me when I got home. The front already has a set of pmb M calipers.
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Posted by: JoeD Sep 19 2017, 02:07 PM
I didn’t win the pmb raffle either but luckily, Eric makes thes available to everyone. They were also waiting for me when I got home. The front already has a set of pmb M calipers.
Super nice. A couple people drove my car this weekend and said the brakes should be better even for straight stock; I had no frame of reference as this is my first and only (so far) 914.
There were 4 of us at okteenerfest so I put 24 tickets in the PMB bucket and 24 in for Tim’s gauges. I managed to not win either, maintaining my perfect lifetime record of ZERO raffle wins.
Eric will get my money soon, at least for fronts. Then Tim’s gauges.
Posted by: mepstein Sep 19 2017, 02:29 PM
I didn’t win the pmb raffle either but luckily, Eric makes thes available to everyone. They were also waiting for me when I got home. The front already has a set of pmb M calipers.
Super nice. A couple people drove my car this weekend and said the brakes should be better even for straight stock; I had no frame of reference as this is my first and only (so far) 914.
There were 4 of us at okteenerfest so I put 24 tickets in the PMB bucket and 24 in for Tim’s gauges. I managed to not win either, maintaining my perfect lifetime record of ZERO raffle wins.
Eric will get my money soon, at least for fronts. Then Tim’s gauges.
Have Eric load the calipers with his porterfield pads. And buy new rubber soft lines.
We are very lucky that there are terrific vendors that can help us make our car run and look like new, for very reasonable prices. I also put in tickets for the 914rubber dash pad, didn’t win, but for less than the cost of a reupholstered dash, Mark sells a new one.
Posted by: JoeD Sep 19 2017, 02:47 PM
I didn’t win the pmb raffle either but luckily, Eric makes thes available to everyone. They were also waiting for me when I got home. The front already has a set of pmb M calipers.
Super nice. A couple people drove my car this weekend and said the brakes should be better even for straight stock; I had no frame of reference as this is my first and only (so far) 914.
There were 4 of us at okteenerfest so I put 24 tickets in the PMB bucket and 24 in for Tim’s gauges. I managed to not win either, maintaining my perfect lifetime record of ZERO raffle wins.
Eric will get my money soon, at least for fronts. Then Tim’s gauges.
Have Eric load the calipers with his porterfield pads. And buy new rubber soft lines.
We are very lucky that there are terrific vendors that can help us make our car run and look like new, for very reasonable prices. I also put in tickets for the 914rubber dash pad, didn’t win, but for less than the cost of a reupholstered dash, Mark sells a new one.
Agreed. I was part of the group buy when Mark first brought out the dash pad. It looks fantastic. I appreciate the recommendations on pads & lines.
Sorry Tim for hijacking thread; now back to your wonderful gauges...
Posted by: ottox914 Nov 23 2019, 08:58 PM
Still doing gauges? PM sent also-
Posted by: raynekat Nov 25 2019, 12:28 AM
Still doing gauges? PM sent also-
Curious about this too....is he still doing this? Let me know please.
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