Gauge lighting

[Dragon Lady]

Sweet, that looks very nice, I will have to check out putting the blue or green in mine.

 

[Fordication]

Does anyone provide a complete set of LEDs for our car?

 

[TheJ]

Mustangs unlimited has them. I'm not sure of the quality but here's the link.

http://www.mustangsunlimited.com/EM_CatalogSite/00052.htm

 

[Bill73Ragtop]

I got mine for my 73 a couple years back from HiPo Parts

http://www.hipoparts.com/products/1965%252d73-Ford-Mustang-LED-Gauge-Light-Conversion-Kit.html

First class kit (I got the top of the line kit that includes dimmer function, etc). It comes with a great color wiring diagram of the instruments showing exactly where each lamp goes and how it is oriented. Obviously, the end result was spectacular compared to the original.

 

[Fordication]

The super bright ones that allow the dimmer to operate was what I was looking for. Thanks

 

[TheJ]

Little update: I finally got the empty 194 bases.

Sorry for the crappy camera phone pics.

 

[Tnfastbk]

I got mine for my 73 a couple years back from HiPo Parts

http://www.hipoparts.com/products/1965%252d73-Ford-Mustang-LED-Gauge-Light-Conversion-Kit.html

First class kit (I got the top of the line kit that includes dimmer function, etc). It comes with a great color wiring diagram of the instruments showing exactly where each lamp goes and how it is oriented. Obviously, the end result was spectacular compared to the original.

:worthlesswithoutpics:

 

[Fordication]

Do they have leds for the AC and clock as well. How about the map light?

 

[InjectedMach]

Now that is using your head man, that looks gerat!

 

[Totalled]

I have the hipoparts stock color kit.

 

[Bill73Ragtop]

Do they have leds for the AC and clock as well. How about the map light?

Not in the HiPo kit. Just instruments. Looks just like Totalled's at full dark.

 

[Fordication]

I am curious, why do you have to have new bases and there are about 15 bulbs in the instrument cluster, do you get them all? Do our cars produce the blue light if we go to LEDS or do we have to do something to make them do that? As you can see, mine are so faint I do not think I ever saw a color. I have the cluster out right now cleaning up wires.

 

[TheJ]

I've heard taking the diffusers off helps with brightness. The way I did it with the LED strips I only need 3 of those twist lock bases in the main cluster. I got those empty bases so I can just plug them into the twist locks to get the power from the original locations.

 

[Totalled]

The HiPo parts kit I got replaces the bulbs with LEDs and uses the stock diffusers to make the blue light.

 

[Fordication]

Thanks Totaled. I called them yesterday and got tons of info on what I wanted. I then found the replacement LED bulbs for the map light and the overhead light. I will include that source once I have made sure that they work.

 

[homelessmexican]

yes i need a dome led light

 

[MrMach71]

this place is full of cool ideas.

thats something i want to get done now.

Thanks

 

[TheJ]

It's really easy to do and fairly cheap. A word of advise is to clean the surface you're sticking the led strip on really good, because when I first did it, the temp gauge strip peeled a little and so I just replaced it.

 

[Totalled]

Since this thread was bumped...

The biggest improvement I've made to the brightness of my gauges was to trim away the shields from the sides of the gauges to allow more light onto the face. Even after the LEDs my center gauges were dim at night. I trimmed away the sides and now can read them easily.

 

[TheJ]

Since this thread was bumped...

The biggest improvement I've made to the brightness of my gauges was to trim away the shields from the sides of the gauges to allow more light onto the face. Even after the LEDs my center gauges were dim at night. I trimmed away the sides and now can read them easily.

Nice, I didn't think to try that. I had heard that the plug and play leds were not the brightest so that's why I tried these led strips. In my opinion, you get twice the brightness for half of the money.