COMPLETED: 03-04 G35 coupe instrument cluster/gauge color change
 

finally got to finish up this cluster. did various experimenting and messing around..basically molested this cluster to see what can be done.

this was a spare cluster i bought off ebay from a 2003 G35 coupe, automatic w/ navi and about 62K on the clock.

i need a better camera. the red is true red in person. where ever it may seem that there are hot spots, it's very uniform to the human eye. don't mind the different colors here and there. just wanted to show what can be done, i.e. the blue odometer LCD, white gear indicator LCD, white temp needle. the blue odometer LCD is actually more of an aqua blue than represented in the pics. the first pic shows how crisp the white is. don't know why the camera made it more yellow in the subsequent pics.


well, without further ado, here's the finished pics:

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Looks Sick. Nice work:)

sick work man

The only change I'd like to have seen is the major dash marks on the tach in red, too.

How did ya do it.. Did u have to resoldier every led on 1 by 1.

Sounds like a pain in the ***

Looks great, wish I had the skills to do something like this. :)

looks great !

yeah, please fill us in on how you did yours. did u put some color gel on the back? did u change the bulbs to leds?

looks great i agree with C though you should of done the bigger marks on the rpm gauge in red like the speedometer

the 03-04 clusters uses incandescent bulbs from the factory. the 05-07's use LED's. so i had to retrofit LED's in the bulb bases one by one.

as far as the ticks on the tach, that could've been done but i was just using this cluster as my guinea pig and did a bunch of diff looks to it.

How does your mile counter light up?

nice, but im a fan of the amber/orange

how did this took you?

sick!

i was touching this cluster here and there whenever i had time over a span of a month. but i can finish up a whole cluster in a day or less if i work nonstop.