Ok i kust got my hands on a VTi cluster. Its on the car now. My question is how can i make it brighter?Can i add some white led's to make it more bright? Or will it kill the amber color. Cuz apparently the bulbs are white. So i want to try to replace them with brighter ones. But dont know if it will work?

 

leave it alone. if you wanted brighter ones, should just modded the stock.

 

That's not what he asked.
OP. In your case this would probably be a trial by error thing but if you want it brighter buy brighter bulbs.

 

What's your point? oi like the lighted needles. And the cluster is very dim. Bulbs seem to be old. So I tought maybe led's would do a nice trick. Has nothing to do with modding the cluster. All I would be doing is replacing the halogen with led's. Since I need to replace them anyways cuz the bulbs are all blackish. Hence the little light output.

 

ive heard led upgrades on these cluster work really well.
haven't done it to mine yet though, haven't had the time or money to look for the bulbs
def let us know if it helps and how much

 

Well then I guess its time for a trial and error. LoL. I will be ordering the bulbs this week. I will post pics of how my cluster looks. And then after with the led's.

 

are you getting amber leds? or a different color?
where you getting them from ?

 

LEDs will not make your cluster brighter since the light spread is too focused. Your best bet is to go to Autozone and get some amber bulbs that fit the cluster...I did that with my USDM cluster and it looks great. Brighter than the stock white/blue bulbs and brighter than the JDM amber bulbs.

fm

 

^ word

 

Wrong. I'm getting wide angle led's. In white. Since it seems the cluster's amber color comes from the gauges itself. Not the bulbs. The bulbs are white. There for some white led's should do the trick. And this is on a jdm vti cluster. Not usdm. Superbrightleds.com I believe has some. I will probably waste about 20 bux. I'll try some amber bulbs and I'll take a pic. Since I have some laying around. I tried them on a ek and it was dissapointing.

 

I think them wide LED's might work, I was thinkin about tryin some on mine too. Since you have the VTi cluster as well, you should try to switch the PCB on the back with a USDM one and see if that lets the illuminator adjuster work on it. I would try it on mine but im currently outta state on vacation for awhile.

 

I would gladly try it but i got rid of the ex/si cluster. I traded some guy my OEM cluster and my hacked psp(which i dont use anymore cuz of my new job) for the VTi cluster. If not i would try it.

 

take the condoms and or blue/yellow film off the current bulbs and reuse them or buy new bulbs without the condoms

ittl produce white light instead of hazy yellow or dim blue

 

WTF??? Are u talking about? I said the bulbs are just WHITE. Plain and simple WHITE. No condoms or anything.

 

lol. ok well if do get leds get amber ones. would look nice.

 

Might. Ill see how it looks with amber halogen to see if it kills the color. And i will buy the white led's

 

where are you ordering from? I want to get some LED's to replace some of my lights too. And yes you can replace it with LED's and it will be brighter.

 

In to hearing how wide-angle LEDs work out...please take pics. All of the LED installations I've seen looked sketchy at best.

fm

 

Nice nice, you gotta pretty good deal on it lol. If I had access to a cluster Id send you the back piece to put on and see if it worked, it would be cool to get it to dim up and down lol. Maybe the LED's will work tho who knows

 

Well i not really worried about the dimming control. It would be nice though. I just want ,y **** brighter. As far as where im ordering the bubls im thinking either http://www.superbrightleds.com/mini-wedge.html or http://autolumination.com/

Im leaning more towards Autolumination since they are the ones who have the 3 led wide angle bulb. What im debating is wether to get the amber led's or white. Since the gauges are the one that produce the amber color. But what if the white is so bright that it wont even look amber.

 

Here is a video of someone with a vti cluster with led's. It seems like its a ek. I could be wrong though. But im trying to find out why they look white. Maybe the ek one dont come amber on some. Im just guessing here. Im really leaning to that its a ek cluster. Hence the red needles. And the seem to not light up. Just red colored.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twrufReWKTo

 

http://www.superbrightleds.com/carbulb-notes.htm

Read that page you might find it surprising.

 

its an EK EX Cluster. Our clusters are not amber. They are white. I wish I could change mine but im way too lazy to take it out of the car to **** with the bulbs. It would look sick in Amber or Blue or Red or even Teal. its in KMH though in the vid so idk what country its from.

 

Well i didnt read the whole damm page. But im guessing what your trying to say is to not use white bulbs right? But maybe amber? But why would the OEM bulbs be white? Sorry if this is not what your trying to say. Im to lazy to read that page..LoL

 

no you can use w/e color you want. I wanted you to read the part about how the LED's are not brighter, and are instead dimmer for the most part.