Custom speedometer gauges...
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does anyone know if you can get them in white with black numbers during the day that will glow up red at night cause even though i know that i am **** about things but i am wanting all my gauges to match perfectly and i am wanting stewart warner boost,egt,oil press.,aem white uego w/b a/f gauges. with all the stewart warner gauges the numbers are black during the day and face goes black at night and just the numbers glow red at night. i like the stock gauges but since i have alot of trees here where i live and it gets darker from the shade its hard to see black gauges sometimes thats why i am wanting white. if any one knows the answer to this please post .
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Originally Posted by Killboy
You betcha. I did just notice on their "Dials Installation" page it says to remove the factory gauge face and replace them with these, so they may work fine afterall. I'm not sure what people are buying that they have to wire in, but I'm guessing they are buying some sort of overlay with Electro-Luminescent lighting. These appearantly replace the stock gauge faces properly, so there is no backlight to "go bad" per say. It seems to just use the stock backlight, which I assume is white. (filtered red by the stock gauge face)
I'm anxious to get them installed for you guys, but we are going to Chicago in a couple of days for a big motorcycle show, and I'm going to be too busy preparing for the show to get them installed. I'm going to leave the Evo with my mechanic friend over the weekend while we're in Chi-town...maybe I can convince him to slap them in while he's got it.
I'm anxious to get them installed for you guys, but we are going to Chicago in a couple of days for a big motorcycle show, and I'm going to be too busy preparing for the show to get them installed. I'm going to leave the Evo with my mechanic friend over the weekend while we're in Chi-town...maybe I can convince him to slap them in while he's got it.
I'm almost positive that if you order the white faces with red numbers, they will be reddish-black during the day, but not fully dark black. The reason being, the color of the numbers is a result of light passing through a colored section of vinyl. If there is no light source back there, they would be fully black numbers. But, with my 2005 Evo at least, not sure about other years here, the gauges are lit even when the parking lights are off. You can hardly tell it during the day, because the backlighting is so dim compared to daylight, but it may show just a hint of red in your case.
If your gauges don't light up when the parking lights are off, they should be black numbers like you want.
If your gauges don't light up when the parking lights are off, they should be black numbers like you want.
Originally Posted by rubber duck
does anyone know if you can get them in white with black numbers during the day that will glow up red at night cause even though i know that i am **** about things but i am wanting all my gauges to match perfectly and i am wanting stewart warner boost,egt,oil press.,aem white uego w/b a/f gauges. with all the stewart warner gauges the numbers are black during the day and face goes black at night and just the numbers glow red at night. i like the stock gauges but since i have alot of trees here where i live and it gets darker from the shade its hard to see black gauges sometimes thats why i am wanting white. if any one knows the answer to this please post .
just ordered mine, black with light blue illumination....also the HVAC because my car got broken into about a year ago and it looks ghetto without that sicker. (radio was stolen and plate was broken, causeing the sticker to be lost...ugh)
Originally Posted by Ultimate CC
In person how does the cf look, is it fake looking, I think I would be leaning towards the black faced
