My custom cluster........

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:08 am

Pics are worth a thousand words.
Here's what it looks like off:
(sorry for the quality, most of you are unable to percieve how awesome my phone camera is [/sarcasm])

And illuminated:

And finished product, as you can tell, that 12" CCFL wasn't enough for her:

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:11 am

So ya, I drilled some holes, made some custom fabrications, and fit a 12" CCFL in there pretty easily. However, no matter what I do, 1 CCFL isn't enough to light the whole thing, just the top. So what I plan on doing is getting a 6" for behind the underside of the tach and the speedo, and then a 3" i'm gonna drop in vertically between the gas and thermo gauges. Always a work in progress.......

by **xavier** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:42 am

whats a ccfl?

by **Assyrian** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:42 am

maybe you can use mirrors?

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:01 pm

CCFL is the acronym for Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lighting.

I have tried using a flexible reflector shield from a blacklight neon and it looked the same, plus it was an absolute pain in the donkey'sass to get it in there. The CCFL radiates light 360 degrees anyways.

by **Assyrian** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:32 pm

oh... sorry I couldn't be of more help.

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:02 pm

so now i'm thinking of using reflective cutouts to cover as much area behind the gauges as well. I've figured out what all I'm gonna be needing to complete it. I need a 6" white ccfl and a pair of 3" white ccfl's. Gonna need 1 for the thermo, one for the gas, and the 6" for the lower part of the speedo and tach. I was up until 4am working on this too :drinking:

by **SolaraGuy22** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:08 pm

Finally you got some pictures up of that thing. I was even thinking of how the ElWire would look if you did it right. I didn't even think of it until now.

The good thing is your cluster works. I gave up and just tore mine up.

Good luck with the rest of the project.

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:11 pm

Dude, EL wire should work good too. At least you can run a ton of that everywhere behind the gauges too. That's a good idea man.

by **pythonjosh** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:13 pm

Update!!!!!!!!!
Not finished yet, but here it is with the 12" white ccfl, and also a 4" ccfl, LED red turn signal indicators, and of course, the UV ccfl. It's mounted at a perfect level that the steering wheel blocks my eyes from direct view of the ccfl.

by **Akfahad** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:37 am

I like...looks good.

by **pythonjosh** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:46 am

I have broken 2 of the 4" cathodes trying to extract the cathode out of the tube. It's not easy as it is actually glued in the tube with like rubber cement kinda substance. So after trying to open the tube with a knife, resulting the 2 broken ones, the third one was a success using a soldering iron to melt/cut thru the plastic. Tough process, but that's what I gotta do to get the results I want.

by **SleeperSolara** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:49 am

Good grief that bad a$$.
That would blind me at night. :lol:

Mine are bright enough.

by **WTF??** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:49 pm

one of my homebois previous acura had interior lights that stop working for him... so he managed to get a power source and hooked up a UV light that I gave him for his bday and it looked like this... its pretty sikk!!!!

by **pythonjosh** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:11 am

WTF?? wrote:one of my homebois previous acura had interior lights that stop working for him... so he managed to get a power source and hooked up a UV light that I gave him for his bday and it looked like this... its pretty sikk!!!!

Why didn't he just fix it? lol
It's not brain surgery :lol:

But creativity is always good

My custom cluster........

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