What year e46 did you have?

 

didnt have the car, just the lights lol

 

got some more stuff yesterday. 3m DiNoc vinyl carbon fiber..this stuff looks like the real thing..i'm thinking of putting it on the gauge cluster as pictured..but the place i got it from also has a blue carbon fiber..thinking of getting a sample of that to see what it looks like, dont know which would look better being my truck is blue..what do you guys think?


put it on the battery cover of my phone to experiment, looks pretty cool i think! it looks much better in person

 

Clean truck,
Black would be more realistic, but blue would keep to your scheme.

 

here is the blue vinyl carbon im looking at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kWYvSiztN0

 

Wow, that stuffs shiny, I'm leaning toward blue now. Wrap an entire vehicle in that. ...

 

they already did! LOL its allot more expensive tho...$30 for just a 12"x24" sheet
evo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oudX6kwI5Ts

h3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se126E9OnGQ&feature=related

 

i went with the black and did this to my cluster and hvac control face..what do you guys think? i dont have those air bubbles anymore on the tach face...waiting on some LEDs and an oil pressure sensor to finish this up

 

Looks good, nice job!

 

Purty snazy, like how you got that lined up.

 

Clean looking man, i like it

 

messing around with my HID projectors, thinking of painting the back blue what do you guys think? once i get one mounted i'm going to put it on the truck and see what looks best, but i was just playing with some old headlights before i cut up and paint my new ones..sorry for the crappy cell pics

wait till you see the output pics of these!!







i have a choice between these two shrouds, probably end up going with the gattling gun style on the left, they fit a lot better(cuz they came with my projectors) the ones on the right are off a VW GTI

 

Nice job sir. Mr Big Bago Tricks.

 

I want progress

 

im working on it been real busy with school

 

Finally got a chance to get a little bit of work done on a couple of my projects


first is my HID retro
I want these to be different, so i was experimenting with adding some running lights inside the headlights so they wouldn't look so plain and like every other pair of 7x6 out there

so this is what i was thinking having about 8 amber leds as running lights, it would be cut out like this and obviously spaced better and drilled better


finally got my LEDs in the mail and mocked it up to get an idea, these are really bright for regular ol 5mm, but they are name brand..Cree FTW!





what do you guys think? should i continue with this? I kinda like it but wanted to get some input, keep in mind the housing will be blue like the pics above and it will have the chrome shroud

 

Also worked on my gauge cluster a little, this is real close to going in my truck..
as most of you know the 4cyl SR5 cluster is hard to find, so most of us get the V6 cluster, which means your tach will be off..and the adjustment knob is on the inside of the cluster meaning it would be a PITA to adjust it..So simple solution is to de-solder the adjustment knob(pot) and relocate it, so thats what i did, now i can adjust it while the truck is running without pulling my dash apart every time

the white circle thing is the adjustment(pot)


using the de-solder copper braid(in the pic) remove the pot


get yourself some copper clad prototype board and re-solder it to the small piece of board



Its important to keep your wires orientated as they were so it still works, obviously Solder your wires to the original locations of the circuit board



Now just solder your wires to their corresponding terminals of the pot on the new circuit board



Here it is all put back nicely, I just punched a hole to get the wires through..Now i just gotta find a place to mount the pot when i get the new cluster in my truck

 

how do you even adjust the "pot" ?

 

you would need to have another tach hooked up to read the RPMs then just turn it with a screwdriver(clockwise,counterclockwise) or with whatever until it matches your reading..

here is a better pic

 

I like those lights, unique.