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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:16 am 
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Hi guys, thinking about changing my dash around.. and was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to show me their mods? Im mainly interested in EF/EL models but all pics will be appreciated! So im pretty much just after a big collection of piccies so that me and other potential dash modders can have a gander! Thanks!

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:20 am 
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what model mate? and what do you mean by 'changing it around' - i.e changing clusters/colours/adding components (eg trip comuters) and that? the more specific you can be, the more help you'll get! :P

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:22 am 
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i have an EF Fairmont.. and im considering doing the lights.. to the 'original' blue colour haha with red trip computer and clock.. im just after some ideas! to see what other things are possible!

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:26 am 
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well, mine has the surround on the cluster painted silver, with blue LED's to backlight the instrument cluster.

azza has painted his dash surround black - looks pretty good - there are a few other members on here with some pretty radical dash conversion - wchunke (spelling?) has lime green, another bright red - depends on what you're looking for! :P

there is a doco on how to do the mods to change to LED's for the dash - its pretty easy - if you need a hand, i'm sure a few of us perth members could give ya one on the weekend :wink:

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:34 am 
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sounds nice! yeah i have been reading that.. and those pics there got me thinking that i would like to do it.. im really just wanting to see other pics, other colour variations! just to see what goes or not!

Lime green and red! would like to see those!

help would be nice! if i do get stuck i'll ask for a hand! My mate char and i are planning to do it together.. so we should be able to get through it!

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:36 am 
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Yeah me and Laximah will probably be giving it a shot over a weekend.. without much experience in doing dash mods it looks a tad confusing ! Changing the globes to LEDs doesn't look too hard but the whole LCD colour changing looks to be more of a delicate process so I am really just wondering what results people have got from using different types of filter/paper or whatever. 8-)

Just the "modding newbie" inside me is a little scared lol :oops: :P

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:39 am 
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i've actually got about 6 spare blue led's pre-wired for clusters rolling around in my centre console! :P and a spare cluster too if at leats you want to look at what you're facing before you start it! :wink:

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:40 am 
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Gonnd have to keep that in mind mate.. although probably won't be for a while yet. :) Just after a quick look at some people's results if anyone has some pics aswell just to see what we can come up with. :D

Thanks ;)

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 3:43 pm 
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C'mon people.. I know there's a few of you's out there just itching to show off your sexwah dash :P

*BUMP* :D

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:21 pm 
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char wrote:
C'mon people.. I know there's a few of you's out there just itching to show off your sexwah dash :P

*BUMP* :D


MY dash got all sorts of s**t hanging off it.. gauges, screen, miscellaneous switches... looks god awful but all very functional. Some pics in my gallery but gauges have been moved to a pillar/dash corner since they were taken.

BTW LCD mod VERY easy... follow the instructions and experiment with the filters you use. If you have a clock, very easy to remove/dismantle to play around with. Once you get that right, do the odometer/cc.

For filter I used dark blue paper and soaked it in WD40 to increase the transparency... obviously letting dry before installing but looked much better than plain paper.

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:38 pm 
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yeah the lcd clock is easy to play with untill the bloody fu@#in thing falls apart in your hands... :evil:
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:49 pm 
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Oh okay, thanks for that tip. :)

I am also assuming here that the trip computer LCD would have a similar layout to the clock ?? So just as easy to fiddle with ? :D

More pics thx ! hehe.

Cheers 8-)

 

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:56 pm 
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Does anyone actually have any pics of the trip computer mod completed?
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:58 pm 
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you can see part of mine in this pic
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:02 pm 
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Wow, lookin sweet man 8-)

 

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