Check it out... the light is mounted on the steering hub, and wired through the OEM cable reel (SRS wiring), so it turns with the wheel:

 

NSX

Creativity

 

dope

 

 

cooolness

 

sweet

 

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and, did you make that?</TD></TR></TABLE>

The shift light is from ecliptech; its the shift-I, actually the version intended for bikes, to go around the tacho. On ecliptech's website they have a 1:1 pdf of the device, so I was able to make sure it was the perfect shape for my hub.

The short hub is produced by BOSS for the nsx, this is quite rare, but I needed this particular hub because the housing is textured plastic (I needed to drill through the housing), it is a short hub, and it allowed for the OEM cable reel.

The cable reel normally provides connections for the airbag (SRS), horn, and cruise control - I had a nsx-r wheel installed, and was using only the horn, with the SRS wiring shorted, so I clipped these wires and used them for tacho signal and +12V switched, to the shift light. Ground for the shift light is, as with the horn, through the steering hub. If I had auxilery buttons for cruise control I could retain that function as well, but cruise control is not important to me.

The steering wheel is a quick release (NRG v2.5), the buttons on the wheel are for horn. I was going to use the left button as a scramble boost, but I have too many projects right now... perhaps in a few months I will revisit this idea.

edit: here is the car:

 

so is it sequential, like lights up from left to right, or are they all just coming on at once?

if is sequential, this is so bad *** I will NEED to upgrade my shift light


edit: checked their webpage, it is sequential, and I NEED one $145 is not too shabby either


Modified by MonkeyPuzzle at 5:46 PM 11/23/2007

 

That's pretty cool looking. Looks like a F-1 deal

 

I knew it was an NSX, nice carbon fiber type r cluster surround. And how the heck did you wire the buttons to work with the horn?? thats bad ***

 

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The cluster surround is temporary; this goes in next week:





The NRG quick release allows for use of the horn, the wiring for the horn signal is also inside of the cable reel, so very easy to configure. Ground is through the hub.

 

found something similar on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/Progressiv...wItem

 

nice but that would distract the hell out of me.

 

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This is the same module; my friend uses the flat version in his elise, this is the one intended for cars. The version typically reserved for bikes is the curved one, but it was the exact curve for my BOSS hub (note, it did not fit the previous momo hub); here is the manufacturer's website:

http://www.ecliptech.com.au

The price is $186 shipped from Australia, using nice TNT express mail (took 4 days).

 

creative how do you set the rpm so it can light up? (is it like the msd that uses chips)

 

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There are two buttons on the right side, these control the set points (lower point, where the power band starts, and upper point, where the lights blink), but also set the voltage factor during setup. Essentially you plug the unit into +12V, ground, and tacho, then turn the car on. Based on when the first light turns on you know what your voltage factor is - you can verify this by increasing rpm to 2k, where the second light should turn on, 3k, etc. - once you have this information, and the unit is calibrated, you then setup your shift points.

Also, the display can be used to monitor battery voltage, and has an auto-dim sensor on the left side.

 

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I have the opposite problem, when I am driving near redline I get a degree of tunnel vision, and will often bump off the limiter when I should be grabbing the next gear. I think this light will be bright enough to be easily visible while driving, even if I am concentrating on the road.

 

I was about to say, wtf kinda cluster is that!? Then I realized it's a nsx..

Shift light is cool, New cluster is even cooler

 

Nice NSX

 

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& stack cluster.

 

isotta also makes on, this one is specifically for cars, and is to be mounted on a momo or isotta wheel.

its a bit touchy though, hard to adjust correctly.

http://www.motorsportworld.co....66855

 

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Thanks, it's going to be really cool around Mid December, perhaps early January... I will post pictures of the completed project around that time.

Other parts incoming include a mugen harness bar, sabelt harnesses, camera mount, spoon calipers, project mu scr-pro rotors, and of course headlights, which are going to be custom. I also have a different model of wing on the way, and am having part of the exhaust system redone, to allow for the use of catalytic converters... this is the longest damn 2% I have ever done (see my '98% done with modifications' thread to fully understand this reference)

 

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I saw this one, but wanted something very low-profile, and was concerned this light would block the LCD readout on my stack cluster. Also, the LED's are not very bright, and it is something of an eyesore (imo)... the Shift-I has more functionality, has brighter LED's, which was of large importance to me, and with its mounting location it is the same height as the paddles on the quick release, which should translate into minimal blockage of the cluster - I will be able to provide increased feedback on this concern next week, when the cluster is installed in the car.

The other lights I considered were the plug in stack sequential light, as there is a socket for it on the ST8130 cluster, the datatool revlight, because it is flexible for flush-mounting, and the SPA technique integrated shift light wheel, which I decided to avoid because it required a separate brain module, eg:

 

Sweet man. Aren't there a few NSXs in the Laguna area?

 

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