Well, I finally finished this project. I have been researching the gauges, leds, resistors and components for over 4 months. After finally organzing everything and ordering the correct parts, I was able to finish the interior in blue. Every switch, gauge, and button are now blue. The needles, obviously, remain the stock red color as well as all warning lights. The gauges themselves were a very difficult matter to deal with. After months and months of trying to find a company that made gauge faces for the 350z with clear lettering, I finally got in contact with Alex at BlackCatCustom.com. His company is now able to offer ANY gauge face combination you can dream of, including a wide assortment of face coloring, font coloring, and font choice. For my personal faces, I ordered white faces with silver lettering. This allowed the blue led color to shine through untainted, which is a major issue with the stock gauge face. Feel free to ask any questions or post comments. I have also taken pictures of every resistor that needs to be replaced, and I will soon have a complete parts list for those of you who wish to do this yourself. Enjoy

 

Omfg Sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More Soon.

 

Sick man! That looks great, I would love to have that, but then my Defi guages that I bought to match the stock interior wouldnt match. Although Im sure you could swap those too...

 

price for all the parts to do a complete conversion?

 

are you also going to be doing the window and door switches. Havent seen any z owners with those done. but with my old car i replaced the leds in the switches and overhead console. Not sure if the z is possible also or not.

 

ditto.

and a step-by-step guide on how to replace the LED's would be nice too

 

Are those the stock needles? Mine dont seem as bright.

 

yeah, the picture is taken with a slow shutter speed (no flash) so the lights will appear brighter than usual.

 

I wish I knew how to do all that. I really want to change the LEDs in my G35 to white ones.

 

I want I WANT!!

 

Looks even sicker than I expected. Keep it up...you are the man.

 

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnniiiiice!

wow..very impressed

 

so, got an extra 20+ hours to do mine =) other wise, great job. Something my limited abilities won't allow me to do

 

I could probably modify those also.


Actually, I don't know how to modify the shutter speed on this camera. It's my room mates. I just turned the flash off. The camera just doesn't do this mod justice. But in all honesty, the leds are freakin bright! I found myself dimming them while driving back home the other night.

You might want to talk to a guy named AccordFreak. He did his g35 in blue a while ago.


Yeah I did all of door switches in blue. I will have pics of those, plus the resistors you need to buy to run them at the correct voltage. Also, if you look carefully, I replaced the green led in the homelink to blue. Everything but the needles and the stereo display is blue. I didn't worry about the stereo display because there is over 30 connections holding the lcd to the board. I will be replacing my stereo in the next year or so anyways, so I figured I could live with it.

Hopefully I will be able to find white/clear needles out of a wrecked lexus or something. I want to run blue needles. I don't like all of the different colors. Here's a few more pics. Parts list coming soon! I just need to find time between classes.

You can also see how clear the font is in the last picture.

 

I would love to have a write up on how to do it all.

Looks amazing!!! Verrry good job!

 

+1 awesome

 

Nicely done. How long from start to finish?

 

Right at 11 hours. 6pm til 5am.

Parts list and pics are coming guys! Hang in there!

 

thats awesome....looks great

 

hey acree, howd you like to help me do this sometime?

im thinking red