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Or blue/green dials that turn red when it's time to change gear?

 

When I had a prelude there was a guy on the prelude forum who made his dials green when not in vtec, and once vtec kicked in (yo) the dials turned red. This was easy as it was a 12v feed from the ECU to change the cam over, so tapping in to that allowed the new LEDs to also come in. Not sure how you'd work it in a supra unless you run it off a rpm sensor switch?

 

Actually saying that, the Apexi RSM has a rev output you can set to show 12v at whatever revs you want, so that may work

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When I had a prelude there was a guy on the prelude forum who made his dials green when not in vtec, and once vtec kicked in (yo) the dials turned red. This was easy as it was a 12v feed from the ECU to change the cam over, so tapping in to that allowed the new LEDs to also come in. Not sure how you'd work it in a supra unless you run it off a rpm sensor switch?

 

Actually saying that, the Apexi RSM has a rev output you can set to show 12v at whatever revs you want, so that may work

 

i have a little circuit which is an adjustable rpm switch knocking about already... ;)

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sorry, cant do facelift as the clusters are different to a pre-facelift. Unless somene willing to lend me a facelift cluster for a week or two...

 

Ahh wish I'd known that! I've just given my Supra to the audio place for 2 weeks. You could have had it! :(

:innocent: Could be arranged, i'm not using my car at the minute if you want any dials Si

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if the neadle could change colour that would be awesome. not so much all the lights.

or even have it change colour for 1st and then 2nd turbo :p

 

problem there is in the way the needles are lit - there done by the blubs, though the dial backs - as there are clear plastic. But I'll take a look ;)

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Subscribed.. very interesting :) If I read this correctly it could be rigged to change through colour spectrum as the RPM goes up / down?

 

no, its dash backlight where you can change the colour to what ever you want, BUT will be able to add another circuit which will change the dash light as a certain RPM level.

 

I guess it could be done though... but I think that would annoy most people!

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Sorry if I'm missing something, but does this mean you can change the colour the needles light up? I like the look of my Laguna's clocks, white with red needles, but never changed the colour on the Supra cos I thought it wouldn't look right with the orange needles.

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I think the problem with the needles is that they are painted orange/red and a white bulb lights them up

 

I have seen somewhere that you can strip the paint using thinners or something, guess that may work if you can then put a different coloured bulb in there

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