Saturday, May 13, 2006 - 03:50 pm, by: Tobias Trinks(Toby)
Hi,
I just did the blue dash conversion. The speedometer etc. was not a problem, but there is no CCFL tube at all. The caps and transistors are different too and in different locations. My Soarer is a end 1994 model, so maybe Toyota changed the layout of the dash? There is a red filter in front of the odometer LCD, so I probably can just replace it with a blue one. Any ideas where I could buy one (similar to the ones from Importscene)?
Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 08:11 am, by: Ben Socratous(Socrates)
Um, judging from my blue dash kit, all the filters are just pieces of transparent blue perspex cut to size. Very easy to do (fine blade in a jigsaw) and very cheap also. Just pay a visit to your local perspex plastic place and they'd probably give you a piece of that size.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 02:49 pm, by: Luke Bressington(Lunatic_luke)
Sure did, mate took everything apart that would come apart looking for that tube, for the bottom of mine there is another screen, similar to the speedo etc with a red filter. That is at the bottom under the circuit boards.
hey all,this may sound stupid but could you turn the dash (tach,speedo,fuel etc...) a red colour instead of green? and how the hell do you do it! anything is better than green
Ben Socratous TryHard SA Iv'e got less interior that all of you!!!
Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 07:40 pm, by: Ben Socratous(Socrates)
Filters my man, filters. As I stated above somewhere, all they are is pieces of transparent perspex cut to size. Get some in a colour you want and cut accordingly. Apparently though red isn't too good for the dash, doesn't show up properly. Anyone confirm/deny these viscous rumours?
Monday, May 22, 2006 - 07:09 am, by: Mike Triggs(Mikeandimah)
Ben Socratous wrote on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 07:40 pm:
Anyone confirm/deny these viscous rumours?
These rumours must be pretty thick and gooey...
Interesting to hear that "pov packs" (and, I guess, G-Packs) don't have fluoros, I thought we just missed the scroll function. Ah well, one less thing to go wrong!
red no good ,i got a pov pack manual so no funky displays at the bottom of my dash,how hard to make it blue? this is one soarer thing i have no idea how to do i hate electrics grrr