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Talking my DIY red '04 gauges
yeah i got kinda tired of the white numbering and really wanted some cool mellow red numbering...

so, what y'all think???

it was done by takin apart the gauge cluster (needles off), taking off the light diffusers that lay between the gauge face and lights of the gauges and replacing them with red filter paper (vellium art paper). the paper originally with the somewhat bright white LED's made it look reallly orange, so i spraypainted (yep, spraypaint) the piece of filter paper red with about 3 coats. then i cut out pieces of the red filter paper using the light diffusers behind the three gauges as templates, stuck em behind the gauge faces.


special thanks to gearbox who helped start me on this little project
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Whatever you did, it looks great! Just like the EVO gauges.
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damm MAN the ones there before were way better!!! but i guess....i'm pretty sure you got your own reasons.
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Originally posted by Mr.Modify
damm MAN the ones there before were way better!!! but i guess....i'm pretty sure you got your own reasons.
yeah i know, but i LOOOOVVVEEEE all red throughout the car. plus, ive always liked the all red of the SI and RSX gauges, so i decided, ahh what the heck. they are removable anyways.
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Great DIY.

Being unique is always good thing.
Gauge cluster looks like My si or RSX.
Looks good.
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I actually had all red in my sedan, but for some reason I wanted something different. So a few hundred $$ later, I have blue lights.
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that's nice!
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see if the newer gauges looked like that i would swap my 02 one for that with the quickness.
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hot shiat. good job bro
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great job man. that looks really good
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hmnnn ify on this... i like stock look....
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Wow, great job man! I like the look!

Wish mine were like that.
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all white would be kinda hot too if you could do that
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