hey i was thinking it would be pretty neat if when we hit vtec that the cluster could change colors like this corollas. it been done before?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQamT66EAxI

 

thats pretty neat, i had no idea they did that! I'd only want the remainder of the tach to light differently though, it would make me think my vtec is putting me into hyperdrive!

 

alrite whos gonna be the electronically savvy owner whos going to fabricate some sort of device that will do this and thus making a small profit by selling his wiring harness kit or w/e ......(breath)

 

It's called "rebuilding the backlight" in the instrument cluster and substituting multi-color LEDs for what's already there. Once you do that, it's easy to change the colors. But changing the backlighting is a lot of work. Maybe a week. 12 hours a day. All 7 days.

 

Macgyver? I know you are working on the gauge cluster anyways... Would it be possible to trigger a change in resistence to the lights, by say something like the VTEC actuator?

John

 

Man, I've really been lacking in the posts dept. these last few years... projects have fallen by the wayside as I dealt with all of the crap life throws at us. At the moment, I'm furiously trying to get my Animated Tailights ready for Fall Colors '07 in mid-October (they look awesome, by the way).

The following quote is a small snippet from the original thread I created about my dash upgrade:
[QUOTE]Q: What will it do?
A: I have tried to outline the basic functionality of the unit.

 

nice good to see someones working on it and then some.

is it easy to just do the vtec color change?

 

Damn that's pretty cool.