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Old 10-14-2008, 12:08 AM
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And here they are, the colors are a bit off in these pictures, I could probably get them closer to looking like they do in person if I screwed around with shutter speed and color but this is pretty close. The blues are deeper and the red is really really red in person. I can't wait to do the gauges after this. It really wasn't that hard, it just takes a lot of patience. For those who want to know, It took me 6 hours to complete this. Of course I practically had to do it twice because I soldered all the LED's in reverse polarity once. I also had to go out and buy all the supplies at radioshack first. I'm sure if I did it a second time around it would probably take 30 minutes to an hour to complete.
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Lookin good man. Hope you got those materials from Jeremy.

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Old 10-14-2008, 02:43 AM
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Gauges are 100x easier after hvac hehe
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Old 10-17-2008, 10:08 PM
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Ok so now I'm on to the Gauge Cluster. I think I have everything down that I need to get/do except one thing. How do you remove the gauge faces to put the vinyl behind it? I looked at the gauge cluster removal thread to see if I could figure it out by looking at the pics but I can't...
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You take off the needles, then simply pull up the faces. They are held on by little tabs, when you see it in person you will realize how super easy it is to remove them.
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yup, the gauges are pretty easy to take apart.
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Old 10-25-2008, 03:58 AM
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And shes done...I think it turned out pretty damn close to the photoshop template.

I got home from work at 4:30pm, started at ~5:30 and finished at 11:30pm. It took me forever to get the needles right. I suck at painting...

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Looks great!
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