white face guages look like crap at nite

blk88lx · 03-30-2004, 07:43 PM

I just installed white faced gauges, along w/the A/C fan face as well and they look great in the day but real bad at night. They're fuzzy, well lit in some areas not so good in others. I thought I screwed something up but both my gauges and the A/C fan face look bad. Is this normal? Are MAC WFGs crap?

GhettoPop · 03-30-2004, 10:20 PM

i got the MAC's too. they look pretty weak at night. i noticed mine are poorly illuminated (no light at all)at 40 and 100mph on the speedo. i think you have to do a good job to remove the glue that was left from the original faces, dont remember if i did that or not, damn beer. u will also notice that you should not have taken the needles off the gauges and u can install the new faces w/o removing the needles, live and learn i guess, thats why i picked up some autometer gauges. stock suck anyway. overall i wish i never put the white faces on. waste of time and money.

blk88lx · 03-31-2004, 12:01 AM

That's about what mine look like. I'm going to try to get my $ back. Are ther any white face gauges that look good? At night?

speedytang · 03-31-2004, 04:22 AM

I think they all look like crap at night. My solution works excellent and looks like the new dash lighting. Put your white gauge covers in but remove the bulbs. Then take a 6" fluorescent 12v lite stick and install in front lip of the plastic cover. You can't see it installed under the lense and you can wire it to the dash lights and it lights up the instruments and just looks great and you can read everything and you have choices of different colors.

GhettoPop · 03-31-2004, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by speedytang
Then take a 6" fluorescent 12v lite stick and install in front lip of the plastic cover.

got any pics speedy?

blk88lx · 03-31-2004, 09:50 AM

Ya, I would like to see pics of that as well...

Ackbar00 · 03-31-2004, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GhettoPop
I think you have to do a good job to remove the glue that was left from the original faces

Bingo!

I didnt on mine either, so they were not to good at night, that is why I got these...

www.nrauto.com

Beefy

GhettoPop · 03-31-2004, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ackbar00
Bingo! I didnt on mine either, so they were not to good at night, that is why I got these...

www.nrauto.com

Beefy

which did u get? EL-GLO i assume? your pic didnt come out...........

blk88lx · 03-31-2004, 04:15 PM

I take it those are the el glo at night?

XR1stang · 03-31-2004, 07:02 PM

another vote here for nrauto.com guages. Mine look great at night and they aren't even the el-glo ones.

sedanman · 03-31-2004, 07:19 PM

so the NRauto en glo's are what you guys have and like so much? I think they may be the ones that I go with.

racerboy88 · 04-04-2004, 03:48 AM

I kind of like the reverse glo gauges . White in the day and only numbers and needle visible at night. Not as flashy.

Ackbar00 · 04-04-2004, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by blk88lx
I take it those are the el glo at night?

Sorry, yes, they are the El-Glo at Dusk

03-30-2004, 07:43 PM	#1
blk88lx Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Posts: 179	white face guages look like crap at nite I just installed white faced gauges, along w/the A/C fan face as well and they look great in the day but real bad at night. They're fuzzy, well lit in some areas not so good in others. I thought I screwed something up but both my gauges and the A/C fan face look bad. Is this normal? Are MAC WFGs crap? __________________ 93 GT, 5.8 EFI usual bolt ons, 3.55's, subs, hurst, K+N 78 F100 Short bed, 5.8, dual pipes 4 bbl 03 Sable

03-30-2004, 10:20 PM	#2
GhettoPop Gimme a Drink! Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: NYC Posts: 694	i got the MAC's too. they look pretty weak at night. i noticed mine are poorly illuminated (no light at all)at 40 and 100mph on the speedo. i think you have to do a good job to remove the glue that was left from the original faces, dont remember if i did that or not, damn beer. u will also notice that you should not have taken the needles off the gauges and u can install the new faces w/o removing the needles, live and learn i guess, thats why i picked up some autometer gauges. stock suck anyway. overall i wish i never put the white faces on. waste of time and money. __________________ 1990 GT,stock T-5,K&N w/o air silencer,March underdrives,FMS wires,timing@14*,PA Perf 130amp alt,Steeda Tri-Ax Shifter,Steeda adj quadrant/clutch cable/firewall adj,Centerforce II clutch,o/r x-pipe,Magnaflow SS catback,g-load brace, subframes,Bilstein struts/shocks,Autometer gauges, 136k and running strong!

03-31-2004, 12:01 AM	#3
blk88lx Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Posts: 179	That's about what mine look like. I'm going to try to get my $ back. Are ther any white face gauges that look good? At night? __________________ 93 GT, 5.8 EFI usual bolt ons, 3.55's, subs, hurst, K+N 78 F100 Short bed, 5.8, dual pipes 4 bbl 03 Sable

03-31-2004, 09:50 AM	#6
blk88lx Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Posts: 179	Ya, I would like to see pics of that as well... __________________ 93 GT, 5.8 EFI usual bolt ons, 3.55's, subs, hurst, K+N 78 F100 Short bed, 5.8, dual pipes 4 bbl 03 Sable

03-31-2004, 04:15 PM	#9
blk88lx Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Posts: 179	I take it those are the el glo at night? __________________ 93 GT, 5.8 EFI usual bolt ons, 3.55's, subs, hurst, K+N 78 F100 Short bed, 5.8, dual pipes 4 bbl 03 Sable

03-31-2004, 04:22 AM	#4
speedytang Registered Member Join Date: Oct 1999 Location: Marengo, Ohio.USA Posts: 135	I think they all look like crap at night. My solution works excellent and looks like the new dash lighting. Put your white gauge covers in but remove the bulbs. Then take a 6" fluorescent 12v lite stick and install in front lip of the plastic cover. You can't see it installed under the lense and you can wire it to the dash lights and it lights up the instruments and just looks great and you can read everything and you have choices of different colors.

03-31-2004, 07:02 PM	#10
XR1stang Registered Member Join Date: Apr 1999 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 205	another vote here for nrauto.com guages. Mine look great at night and they aren't even the el-glo ones. __________________ I used to hate computers, until the server went down on me...

03-31-2004, 07:19 PM	#11
sedanman Registered Member Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 963	so the NRauto en glo's are what you guys have and like so much? I think they may be the ones that I go with. __________________ 04 Screamin Yellow Cobra KB 2.4 (585/556 pump 626/666 race) 00R brakes, DFX clutch, Level 5's, return fuel system, Lts with 3" exhuast, FR500 wheels and all the other fun stuff. GONE 1991 Lx sedan 5.0, 5spd (Liberty proshifted TKO) S-trim, Ported TF heads everything parted out.

04-04-2004, 03:48 AM	#12
racerboy88 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: British Columbia Posts: 123	I kind of like the reverse glo gauges . White in the day and only numbers and needle visible at night. Not as flashy. __________________ 1990 5.0 LX H/B H-pipe w/ flowmasters, Koni shocks and BBK springs.

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