Reply With QuoteTacho looks the goods mate, very compact... nice housing for it too.
I finally managed to migrate mine from the front seat to a more permanent location on the dash.It's slightly larger than yours though Craig...
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OK had a day off so thought i would pull my dash apart agen...
because i got a new tacho and it looked
tops but my red dash did not match so i wanted to try the white LEDS...
and took some pic ..
the is the speedo cable some people were asking about..
the brassy looking thing is what you have to undo..
now went looking in my garage and pulled out a white pack i had from awhile ago
there was only 2 so went looking in my bag of trick and fond a convex one
so i got some 80 grit sand paper and ruffed it up (so the light would distribute better)
then put it all back 1 point i will make is when you put the LEDS in BEFORE you put all the dash back together make shore the LEDS work if there not working all you have to do is turn them around.
all finished and only took about 1/2 hr
this is the new tacho in the custom cup i made..
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Tacho looks the goods mate, very compact... nice housing for it too.
I finally managed to migrate mine from the front seat to a more permanent location on the dash.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper, simpler and tidier to just put the factory tacho IC in rather than sticking that tiny little one on?
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Its Takumi style!Originally Posted by mrshin
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simply put.... NO
yes i did look in to getting a sx or gti dash cluster only $80 but then looked into it and found all the senses would have to be changed so was going to be a little over $210 so....
and i prefer the custom look any way when i have some time the whole dash will custom some thing like this...
Time is priceless yet it costs us nothing.You can do anything you want with it but you can't own it.You can spend it but you can't keep it.And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back, it's just gone."
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I didn't know there was an easy alternative to this, so i made mine myself just recently using white LEDs from jaycar:
And the result:
Considerably better than the stock ke20 globes
Going to change my interior light over as well.
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Hi does anybody know wether these will fit a KE30 dash as my lights are really dull,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2pcs-...temZ8020257383
Cheers
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so which type of leds are reccomended to evenly distribute the light in the instrumental cluster?
any help>
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was there much work to make them fit?AE86 rice, sweeeet!
I hated the green, so I pulled the condoms off the standard bulbs.
But they showed up Orange, so 10 bux later:
It's slightly brighter near the led's, but i can live with it.
i have like zero electrical mod skills
if its not a molex im fucked... lol
id love to brighten up my gauge cluster with white ones
but i dont really wanna fuck it up lol
Garth - 100% AE86 Addict
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it's pretty much take cluster out and change the bulbs.
it's just the distribution of light is getting me worried!
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.........................................I used these LEDS that I found they have concave lenses, which helps disribute the light more evenly then the regular ones that are avaliable. This picture shows the bulb near a piece of perspex, from how I see it the light beam hits the perspex and then is re-directed into the area of the speedo.
Time is priceless yet it costs us nothing.You can do anything you want with it but you can't own it.You can spend it but you can't keep it.And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back, it's just gone."
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As stated previously puzzleman, the early dashes dont have the perspex light diffuzer, so this becomes a little sadder for anyone with an early dash. One solution ive found to work decently in early dashes is to pull the guages completely apart, and then clean up the box behind them and spray with chrome paint. Go light coats for the best effect, not a perfect finish, but it does reflect the light around your instrument a lot, and works wonders for the lighting.
Cheers, Owen
Cheers, Owen
1977 RA28 with 1JZ-GTE (Was 18R-GTE)
Lancer EVO Brakes into old Celica/Corolla/Corona
Doing the things that aren't popular... cause being popular and being good are often distinctly different.
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ae86drift - As xolent said, just need to pull the dash cluster out, pull the old bulbs out ( being careful not to break the glass) and shove the new ones in.
As i said before, the only thing to look out for is dirty contacts on the plastic holders and the back of the cluster.
I recomend you turn the lights on to test that all the LED's light up before you screw everything back together - i had to pull it all apart when i figured out one LED didn't light up!
xolent - The guages wont be lit totally even, the spots just infront of the bulbs will always be brighter.
At night, you barly notice it unless you look for it.
In the arvo, with a bit of ambiant light you notice it a lot more.
[Edit: This is in the AE86, could be different in other models]
Bananaman - Those guages look fantastic.
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what if you scratch a little bit of the concave LED's like craig said to distribute the light a little bit further
i still haven't got around to doing this lol...
I have been pruned by old man river!!!!!
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How nice is that dash?! 
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