Small touches

[crazymikey]

It's remarkable what a difference a shot of silver paint and a red permanent marker can do to completely transform the look of the gauge cluster while still retaining a factory look.

As with all of the modifications I'm doing to my car, my goal is to not make the car look customized, rather, customize it with OEM parts/accessories and little DIY jobs.




Although a BB6 cluster swap would be awesome, this will more than suffice for the time being.

[JoshM]

Never noticed those words under "unleaded fuel only" before.


Looks good Mikey... that's what I'm doing with my spare cluster.

[TracieS]

I did my cluster to. My friends em1 has red needles and carbon fiber trim and I always liked so I did it to mine and it looks like a factory option just somthing diffrent than those boring white neddles.

[DarkHusk11]

Very nice you did the silver yourself? I seen they sold the chrome bezels on ebay I always wanted some.

Good job this car is comming along great!

[crazymikey]

Why spend $10+ on chrome bezels when you can do the same basic effect with paint?

We HAD some chrome spray paint I ws planning to use, but my roommate used it all, so all I had left was some mixed up Solaris Silver from my old SE that I used instead.

And the needles are just red permanent marker.

So that's it, my interior mods are pretty much finished. Prelude wheel, gauge cluster modded and DA head rests.

The rest of the CB interior is just the way I like it....minus having black leather of course.

[slammed91cb7]

looks great man

[crazymikey]

Thanks guys.

I also had a couple 194 blue LEDs in the garage, so I popped those in where the 194s fit, and holy crap do they ever look awesome. I am definetly going to convert the rest of the cluster to blue LEDs.

[illwitit247]

i see ya have the old prelude steering wheel also .. i did the red marker trick also .. i have a carbon bezel tho.

[crazymikey]

yeah, I love the wheel. One of the first mods I did to the car when I got it. I hate the stock steering wheels.

[HardInThePaint]

Hey did u retain the use of your cruise control and all that when u swapped the steering wheel?

[crazymikey]

No. This is the second time I have swapped a Prelude wheel into a car and wired it up and didn't work.

[HardInThePaint]

Oh, well it still looks tight.

[islandhopper]

Fucking rad bro. Looks awesome. If i ever sac up and open my cluster, this is most definitely on my to-do list.

[crazymikey]

Probably took like an hour to disassemble the dash, the cluster, paint it, put the cluster back together and reassemble the dash.

Taking the cluster apart is simple and nothing to be scared of. Just undo a bunch of screws, things come apart in layers and it's pretty straight forward. Give 'er a shot on a sunny afternoon.

[antonio7566]

Why spend $10+ on chrome bezels when you can do the same basic effect with paint?

We HAD some chrome spray paint I ws planning to use, but my roommate used it all, so all I had left was some mixed up Solaris Silver from my old SE that I used instead.

And the needles are just red permanent marker.

So that's it, my interior mods are pretty much finished. Prelude wheel, gauge cluster modded and DA head rests.

The rest of the CB interior is just the way I like it....minus having black leather of course.

$10+ I wish the only ones I found were 60+ cad from the UK, but there nice set made out of polish aluminum. If you want to do the led convertion let me know I'll give you the link for the guy I bought from on eBay 20 3mm blue flat top LEDs and resistors for less then $6 shipped did all my switches and dash well worth the work.