Custom Gauge lighting, now in color! Options

[timothy_nd28]

Yes, go ahead and send them to me as well.

[timothy_nd28]

Had some extra time this weekend. I soldered up 20 sets of the RGB led flex strips with 2' of wire

[timothy_nd28]

I have an opening in the first ten. Anyone that wants to be added to this list, PM me.


Kit and Labor (*)= first 10 orders with price @ 95.00 kit & 100 labor
(Members)............(Cylinders).............(Redline (yes/no) RPM?)...............(Yellow warn (yes/no) RPM?)

*ThePaintedMan_____4______________ yes @ 4800____________________yes @ 4000
*monkeyboy _______4_______________yes @ 5000____________________yes @ 4000
*mrholland2________4_______________yes @ 5000____________________yes @ 4200
*914socal__________4_______________yes @ 5000____________________yes @ 4200
*lonewolfe
*no1uno____________4______________yes@ 5000___________________yes @ 4000
*SirAndy___________ 6_______________yes@ 6800____________________yes @ 6000
*Jakeodoule_________4_______________yes@ 5000____________________yes @ 4200
*balljoint____________4_______________yes@ 4914___________________yes @ 4000
*Rdauenhauer _______4_______________yes @ 5000____________________yes @ 4000
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eric9144__________4
mikeyb33__(Aug/Sept)
Harpo_____________4_______________yes @ 5000____________________no

Kits only

Mr.242
StratPlayer
mepstein__________6______________yes @ 6850_________________________?
Madswede
poorsche914
Gary

[914werke]

Here's a question: Which is preferred - glass face or plastic?

[timothy_nd28]

Glass is better IMHO, plastic tends to get scratched easily. I have the local glass guy cutting me 10 lenses. Hopefully they will be ready in a few days.

[Mr.242]

I won't be doing my lights until this winter. I'm in a holding pattern. I just might send them off to you to ensure it's done correctly and the calibration on the 'redline' settings.

Still want this done and (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Nice work on this!!!

[timothy_nd28]

Had some time today and built the next 10 circuit boards.

[SirAndy]

Glass is better IMHO, plastic tends to get scratched easily. I have the local glass guy cutting me 10 lenses. Hopefully they will be ready in a few days.

Did you also get glass for the 100mm speedo?
My speedo i sent you is from a 944 and has that ugly cone shaped plastic lens on it.

If you have a glass that fits, i'd be happy to take that off your hands. Already got the glass drill to make the hole for the odo reset button.

Oh, and "while you are in there", can you please remove some of the paper of the custom gauge face for my tach when it's apart?
The hole is too small and the tach needle drags on the paper and doesn't go back to zero.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[timothy_nd28]

Local glass guy cut all 20 tach lenses 3/16" too big (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) Hopefully he will have them back to me in a few days.

[Bartlett 914]

I had a chance to meet Tim at the 914 meeting at Garolds in Portage Indiana today. Tim had his LED gauges setup on display. This setup is really impressive. Well worth the cost IMHO

[timothy_nd28]

Thanks, it was great meeting all of you today!

Guys, many of you have received or will be receiving shortly the gauges you sent me for this mod.

I have failed you with providing instructions on how to install this back into your car. I will make a video showing instructions very very soon. Till then, the controller has a green connector that has 6 connection points. The power side of the connector, marked + and - . The negative ties to the brown daisy chained wire. The positive ties to the black and blue striped gauge light wires. This will enable the controller to turn on when you pull the headlight switch. It is important that the rheostat on the headlight switch is turned clockwise max, for full voltage to the controller. Supplied in the kits, I have a length of wire with 2 conductors. Use this to tie into the car's wiring harness. I have also supplied some wire crimp connectors, to splice into the car's wiring harness, without actually cutting the wire.

The other 4 terminals on the green connector is for the LED's. Each gauge will have a ribbon cable (blue,green,red,black). The blue wire from the gauges goes to the B terminal on the RGB controller. The green and red wires goes to the G and R terminal on the RGB controller. The black wire from the gauges goes to the V+ terminal.

Now, on the other side of the controller, you will have 2 color wires black and purple. The black wire needs to tie into the fuel reserve lamp which happens to be black on the car's wiring harness. The purple wire is for tach sense, which will tie into the car's tach wire (black and purple stripe).

The fuel reserve lamp must be incandescent. If you are using a LED light for the fuel reserve, it will be slightly illuminated.

Also, the remote that comes with the kit. You must remove the battery saver plastic film, for the remote to actually work.

I have found a good place to mount the RGB controller. Behind the gauges, you will see a mount that supports the steering wheel shaft. There is a cavity that this RGB controller will slide into. I have supplied cable zip ties to secure the this controller in that area. Totally up to you on where you mount this. I'm sure that I'm forgetting things, but I'll get a video up soon showing a step by step procedure.

[timothy_nd28]

It should be also noted that if your child or co-pilot is in possession of the remote control while night driving, that I shall not be held responsible for epileptic seizures due to someone pushing the disco mode button! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[timothy_nd28]

My first 10 orders are now complete. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) The assembly went flawlessly with the exception of SirAndy's type I clock.
The style type I clock seems to have issues with removing the clock hands, which is needed to gain access behind the face dial.


I have gone thru the numbers with this kit, and I'm somewhat upside down with the current pricing. Assembling each controller from start to finish is just over 3 hours each, and the parts needed to do an install is over 100 dollars on my end. Sadly, I will need to increase the price with this kit for it to make sense of me doing it.

New kit price: $200.00

This kit will include a (calibrated to your requested RPMS) RGB controller, remote control, 3 strips of RGB led's precut and flat ribbon cable.

If you want me to do the labor, I will sell the kit for $200.00 dollars and charge $100 for labor. Grand total of me doing everything is $300.00

If you choose to have me do everything, I will paint the needles and replace the fuel reserve gel on the combo gauge. I will also replace your plastic lenses with glass for an extra 10 dollars each.

[Mblizzard]

Even with the increase I still want these! Hopefully once I get all of my current projects in the car I can send them to you. But I am hoping to bribe a bit first.

[timothy_nd28]

Even with the increase I still want these! Hopefully once I get all of my current projects in the car I can send them to you. But I am hoping to bribe a bit first.

You can bribe me with a JWest shift kit! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

[balljoint]

Just got mine! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) They look fantastic!

[914socal]

It has been great and enjoyable to drive at night. The reserve warning saved my ass last night! I left work and the lights staring freaking out on me and then going solid red as gas bounced around the tank. I thought for a moment the control box was going bad. I get on the freeway and it flickers and then goes solid red. Then the bulb in my head went off and I look at the needle on empty. Pulled over and got gas and the dash flickering went away, the reserve warning did what it was suppose to. My brain just took a second to catch up. They are great. The only problem i have is that when i put the stock light for the high beams i think the LED over power from seeing the high beam light on tach. Something to look into. I am interested in your tach conversion as well because you did see the issue mine was having.

[Mblizzard]

Still dying to get this upgrade. But have to finish the mechanical first!

[mrholland2]

Still dying to get this upgrade. But have to finish the mechanical first!

Do what I did: Get it done and keep the gauges in a box until the other crap is done.

[Mblizzard]

Still dying to get this upgrade. But have to finish the mechanical first!

Do what I did: Get it done and keep the gauges in a box until the other crap is done.

Would love to do that but the CFO is watching purchases closely after I have spent $4k in the last month or so. Soon though very soon!