MY1PATH Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 (edited) so I been tired of the ugly orange yellow of the stock guages and I've had my eye on the white letter guages found in the nissan pickup. I eventually got some @ a JY and put them in w/ blue LED's But what I really wanted was the white letter dual trip guages sold on e-bay for 80+ bucks but when the seller asks for my vin and Ignores me after I tell him to I'm looking to do something custom and just want to know if he has any dual trip white letter guages for the MT. What's so hard about saying no? It's allot more polite!Anyway, from what I've seen, I guess the Dual trip was only an option for the AT. So I was gonna have to get an AT (white letter dual trip) cluster and do some custom work.... I don't know what I was looking for but I found my self sitting inside a nissan Stanza and thinking "that cluster looks similar enough to do some cool custom work...." Well I got it to fit, that was the ez part. I had to cut and paste the guage faces onto my old orange ones to fill the gaps. Cleaning up the plasic dust from cutting was a pain it static stuck to everything and I did not want it in the odo and trip meeter gears or speedo disc. For some reason I wanted to use the pathy ODO an the orange trip letters for the left side(for my MPG calculations)... I know it looks silly, I'll go all white for the meeters next week. I shoulda just used the stanza ODO unit because the pathy one needed allot of calibrating(shortened the speedo spring by 2.5" for those who understand speedo calibration). BUt its done for now, I need a break... Next week I will go all white meeters (like I should have) and try to even out the light distubution of my blue LED's. Oh yeh and some how I messed up my tach So I'll need to get the new tach motor from the stanza to solder in. that should be fun to calibrate... unless I get lucky find a whole tach unit from a V6 pathy. Yes kingman, that is bedliner on speedo, tach and guage bezel. I thought it would look cool Edited June 25, 2009 by MY1PATH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 You are getting me in the mood totry and redo my 88s guages now, thanks . I like the look you have going, I'd be after the same but green lit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FUELER Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 looks nice - except for the fact that the blue LED's do not light up your needles! White should light them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY1PATH Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 (edited) You are getting me in the mood totry and redo my 88s guages now, thanks . I like the look you have going, I'd be after the same but green lit. I got my led's from autolumination.com they are the 194wedge and the 24wedge bulbs. I chose the blue 4 led superstar for the 194 and singe blue superstars for the 24. the stanzas had a orange backing that needed to be sanded off w/ 800 grit so that the blue would show thru right but the HB has blue backing. either backing should work fine for green. I had to remove allot of material inside my MT cluster to get the dual trip to fit if you have the at you cluster may already be molded for it. looks nice - except for the fact that the blue LED's do not light up your needles! White should light them up. I could not get the glow fiber optic backing to work because the lamps in the stanza are in different places so I left them out. the camera doesn't pickup very well with such hard contranst in dark/ light but the needles are still fairly visible. the trip meeters on the other hand are not(but they never were with white either) Edited June 25, 2009 by MY1PATH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Fueler, the OE needles didn't glow either.... Mine is an XE with AT, so it only had the single trip odo and single gas guage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY1PATH Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 Fueler, the OE needles didn't glow either....Mine is an XE with AT, so it only had the single trip odo and single gas guage. it may have only had single trip but the molding may be able to fit dual; run the same mold that fits 2 or 3 options to cut down on production costs... I'm just trying to be optimistic 4 ya in case you wanna upgrade to dual. I still have my HB white letter tach and speedo card if you want them(I cut up the orange ones to make the stanza fit), you'll have to track down your own white temp, fuel etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSlowReliable Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 i have single trip :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edicer2 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 This a volkswagon dash but i copied the colors and it came out really nice! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/235283...ed8189e.jpg?v=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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