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Old Nov 17, 2002 | 11:57 AM
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A nice EL white is possible, which is actually the base color of my project. It looks great at night, like the blue, but there is yet another problem specific to EL sheets with white during the daytime. I'll provide more information soon...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TEGSTEG
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Originally posted by gomason
To Be Honest:

Blue is nice, but what I'd really like to see, as a former Lexus LS400 owner, is converting our dash to a lexus-like electroluminescent WHITE light.

I found this dash on a great video! You only catch a glimpse of it, but you can pause the video.

www.redlnr.com/images/SCvNA.mpeg
I see what you're talking about, but the dash only appears whiteish (sp?) because of the color wash and nighttime expore setting of the videocamera. If you compare the orange dash (which appears white) to the other S2000's amber sidemarkers, stop lights, and other lights in the video, you will see that the other lights appear white-ish as well... I'm pretty sure it's a stock dash. You can actually still see the orangeish of the dash.


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Old Nov 17, 2002 | 05:05 PM
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Ahhh, my bad! Cool video though
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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 05:14 AM
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Do you have a blue dash?!

Want to match you whole car?! Please step in



Illuminated by EL
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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 06:29 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by stocky
[B]Do you have a blue dash?!

Want to match you whole car?! Please step in
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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 01:38 PM
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Oh well...

The short version:

Taking the whole thing apart
Making an identical text putting it on top of an EL sheet specially shaped for the size
putting a plastic above for protection
wiring everything to the inverter (for driving the EL) wiring the driver to a power source inside the car
putting everything back together
that's it
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Old Jul 3, 2003 | 04:47 PM
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That's bad a$$! Great idea! AMGs have something similar. Nice work!
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Old Feb 19, 2005 | 12:39 AM
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Wow, never knew there was a way to change your colors, I wonder if Honda would consider this a mod that would void warranty.
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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 11:28 PM
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DJ Qube, any update on when you will have your new version of the dash done i'm getting an 03 S2K very soon and this is the first mod I want done to my car
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 01:10 PM
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Do we have any pictures still floating around?
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Old Sep 20, 2005 | 01:26 PM
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Pretty old thread but I know that Cube made some of these...I ve seen them in Person ;o)
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