so can 1st gen owners change bulbs too? has anyone tried this on their first gen?

 

DAMN...i wanna do that with my 323gtx...but they don't have them for it....not even for my bmw...this sucks!!!

 

pasta...you may try writing to them... 1st identify your cluster bulbs and order them with them...or custom design your own cluster

 

WAIT WAIT WAIT Hold on! You're not saying that by putting bulbs in behind the gauges the needles are gonna glow Are You? I only see white numbers. I thought you put in blue bulbs? Who's carbon fiber gauges are those and whta does it have to do? What car does your buddy have? Is that night time picture of your buddy's car? Sorry for all the questions it's just that I'm thinking why buy indiglo needles if I can put brighter and different bulbs and the needles will light up.

 

Those are ultra blue bulbs, but, you will notice that the gauge numbers are white... the needles are transparent and thats why thy still shine white and the needles, ultra white/bluish

for example, if in any given car, the gauge numbers are...lets say, RED, and you put those ultra white/blue bulbs, the numbers will still glow RED, and if the needle is transparent, will glow blue as in the pictures....

...i think....

 

I put some red light bulbs in my first gen, it looks okay (I don't have a digital camera). It was a bit of a pain in the *** to take out the cluster. The main reason why: the steering wheel. In order to get the trim out from around the gauge cluster, I needed to loosen the four bolts holding up the steering wheel/column to lower it a bit. You could also probably reach around from behind / under to get to the bulb caps, at least for some of them. It took me forever to realize you had to do this to disconnect the speedometer cable to get the cluster to come out.

 

so after u put red bulbs in ur first gen, were the numbers red or did the red shine through green.....? just curious if the number's are clear or do they got like some integrated green tint on it =\

 

As far as I can tell, they are clear, I don't see any green.

 

kool! what size bulbs are they??

 

194, the colored ones are usually a little bit out of the way of the regular ones on the store shelves.

 

kool thanks for the info, btw how many bulbs did u replace?? hyper white 194's can be expensive =P

 

I think about 5, three for the speed / tach, one each for the fuel / temp gauges (which you can use different colors for, btw, I put blue in those and it doesn't overlap with the red, it must be sealed).

 

maybe some LED's would be a good investment for longer lasting bulbs..

 

Wild, are those 194's? And where can I get them?

Also are the smaller bulbs 74's?

 

yeh it can fit in a 194, 168 and 194 are interchangable.

but i read in some other thread, someone put BLUE bulbs in their first gen and it turned out green still, so there might be like a green lense behind the numbers in the gauge itself =\ i suppose red through green wouldnt show any green tho

heres the link
http://209.87.151.155/detail.asp?PRO...-168-LED-White

edit: oh yeh dont know where to get 74's. maybe this link will help
http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/sho...threadid=15810