How-To: R32 Skyline LED Guage Cluster Conversion (Pics)

[louis110]

Old picture but if anyone was wondering what red looks like... Red was very slick and good for night vision, but it was sometimes hard to get a quick glance of the guage reading out the corner of my eye. The bulbs I got were complete crap though, flickering and burning out.

Going to switch to white from http://cgi.ebay.com/White-dash-light...item1e5d0e8f99

[Nexsys]

Anyway to get a new link to the article on how todo it? it kinda died

[JzGarage]

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[klys]

Looks Great !!

[EtienneGignac]

Done !

I just finished the conversion. Looks awesome. No hot spots or anything. Kinda hard to take pictures but here they are :

Main cluster:



Center cluster:

[Bruizer]

same here man, the nice write up was for a GTS so i only order the 5 bulbs for the cluster too. there are some different 74 LED bulbs out there that have refractors on the bulb itself to help spread the light. sadly they are $10 a piece, and still may not work. did you think the leds still weren't all that bright in the cluster? my center ones are nice and crisp just not the cluster ones

$10 each is alright with me, I just need the proper color and blend in. I found the gauge cluster to be dim, but I can live with it, I'll just need to install the proper (or close) 74s in the lower section.

[Bruizer]

Mine are red, they turned out really nicely in the center cluster and not bad in the gauge cluster, a little dim but ok. It would have been nice to get some dim 74s but whatever. Maybe next time...

[bignate]

I have (3) #74 red (non inverted) leds left over from mine if anybody wants them $5 shipped PM me. I put the inverted #74 ones in my cluster and they were almost the same for the 2 hot-spots. It is always worse with red. Guys who did theirs blue dont seem to get the hotspots.

[Turismo]

same here man, the nice write up was for a GTS so i only order the 5 bulbs for the cluster too. there are some different 74 LED bulbs out there that have refractors on the bulb itself to help spread the light. sadly they are $10 a piece, and still may not work. did you think the leds still weren't all that bright in the cluster? my center ones are nice and crisp just not the cluster ones

[Bruizer]

Anyone with a GTR and new lamps installed most likely noticed that there's 2 lower lamps which light up the 0 km/hr and the 0 RPM on the tach are still lit white if you got colors done. This is because the GTS doesn't have the same gauge cluster I guess. I went with red on my car and because everything was red and bright white in the bottom, which looked lame, I tried to install some (74-R which are the same as the center console lamps) but it actually made a hot spot that was twice as bright as the cluster lamps so in the end I simply removed the 2 lower lamps (they're in the blue holders at the bottom of the gauge cluster. I could be wrong but so far there's 3 GTRs that I've seen this issue... any one else got some feedback? The seller of they lamps doesn't own a GTR so he didn't know about this issue.

[GTS-4Skyline]

yea, i would be in, dont know what collour, green or ultra white,
any one know how green are the greens?

[Turismo]

Anyone up for another group buy?

[Alex85]

wicked

[flipridah17]

tried this in amber and i think i bought the wrong bulb as mine is not bright enough..

[flipridah17]

has anyone tried this in amber? I am curious to see if it matches the JDM SIR II brightness..