Updates to the Curren, Battery, Dash, Speakers and now Guages Options

[WWSideWinder]

Hi All

This the work I have done today on my Car

My Old Battery Leads


Engine Bay


New Battery


Positive Terminal


Negative Terminal and Temporary Ground Wire (Will be replaced with Blue 4 Gage Cable When I do the BIG 3)


New 8 Gage Cable and 60Amp Fuse for Sub


I'll be taking photos of my New Blue Interior tonight when it's dark.

This post has been edited by WWSideWinder: Sep 1, 2009 - 4:36 AM

[WWSideWinder]

Previous work done to car.

New Head unit

Unfortunately it has green lights and now my Dash is Blue

6.5" Pioneer 2 way at the Back


6.5" Nova 3 way in the Doors


Tweeters on the Doors



Old 12" Sub in the Boot (Will post Pic is any one wants to see it.

Still working on the Dash Lights will post when I have them done.

Comments / Suggestions / Flames ?

[WWSideWinder]

Finally Some Pictures of the Blue Dash

Gages


Center Console. Head unit is GREEN Some one swap for Blue?


Auto Selector


Climate Control
Blue Back Ground and Blue Selected Lights



This is Still a work in Progress as you can see there are more green lights to change.


If any one is interested on how I have made these changes just ask.

Things to do Still:
- Change all the Green Lights to Blue
- Boot and Cubbyhole to Blue
- Dome light Dimmer and Key light on when door is opened and on Dimmer Circuit
- Blue Under Dash Lights on Open Door
- Look at Blue Dome Light
- Digital Volt, Amp, Oil Temp and Pressure to make and test

This is a mock up of the Digital Gages I working on. (Digits are Yellow for now,I trying to source blue ones.

[WWSideWinder]

I have a video of my Dash at YouTube

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPibXhKQhWI"

[WWSideWinder]

Comments, Suggestions, FLAMES......



Anyone????

[bmj67]

It may be dumb to ask but is pressure spelled wrong in the one gauge or is it spelled preshure in New Zealand. Nice work by the way I like the blue ac controls. I want to do mine in blue. Did you use leds or the film method?

[parriehunter]

its spelled pressure. nice spotting. it that made or photochoped?

[bmj67]

I thought it was pressure but I was just checking. I'm in the us but I know that different countries sometimes spell the same things differently

[WWSideWinder]

My Bad Spelling. Yes it should be Pressure.

As to the ac control's I've used both.
1) I have replaced the Green 3mm with Blue 3mm 1200MCD (Super Bright)
2) I have cut stripes of Dark Blur Gels and folded them 4 times to make a "hood" for each LED so that they don't dazzle me.

When I had just the LED with no "hood" it was so bright you could not see the blue background and With the lights off it distracted me during the day.

If you ask nicely I'll get photos of the unit for you to see (OK OK all you actually have to do is ask.)

As to the Photo it's a photo and MS Paint Touch-up.

I'm in the process of building the Gages and I hope to have a prototype Voltmeter in the next 2 to 3 weeks.


So Besides the Spelling ! Any other Comments.

[bmj67]

I'd like to see more photos please.

[WWSideWinder]

OK photos on Updating the AC unit with LED's


AC unit and Implements of Destruction I used for the job




Ready to Disassemble




Testing the LED's and getting the polarity correct




Inserting a LED




LED's inserted and ready to solder (Not long and short pins




Making the Hoodies
1) Cut the Gel into a thin strip




Fold in 1/2




and 1/2 again




Insert 1 end of the hoody between the LED and the Plastic Support




Carefully bend the Gell and insert between the LED and Plastic Support on the other side.




I have left the Full Fan LED un-hooded to try and show you how bright it is but the photo will not show the difference very well.


The best thing to do would be to go to your locak electronics store and compare the normal LED to the Super bright and then you will understand.


I hope this will help and inspire people out there to attempt this mod as it makes a BIG difference to the look of the AC Unit and the Dash as a whole.

[WWSideWinder]

As well as the Above AC change last night I added Blue under LED's to both Driver and Passenger foot wells


The photo is darker than in real life.

Added Blue LED's to the Dome Light




I have added the LED to the Normal dome light, Both LED'a and Dome light have separate switches and both are trigged buy opening the door/s



I have added to the dome light rather than replacing it so that I can get White light to search for stuff and use the map lights.
Part 2 of this is to build and install a delay dimmer circuit that will leve the lights on fo 15 seconds then dim but will immediately dim when I turn the key to ACC.

Next on the list is to and more LED's to the AC unit (Secret till finished) and add some LED's to the boot.
I have changed the Cubby and Ashtray to blue so all that is left is the boot (I have a Coupe)

[GriffGirl]

Nice work there! Would you mind removing the clear plastic cover from the dome light and taking a picture of the lights in there? I like the idea of what you've done there but am having a hard time understanding what exactly/how you did that. I HATE my dome light - it's the worst yellow EVER! I actually want to change mine to be bright white, but I'd really like to see what you've done.

[bmj67]

nice pics thanks. what did you use for the main back lights the ones that come on with the headlights. I like the dual dome light. I think it would look really good if you replaced the stock bulb with super white led array.

[WWSideWinder]

T10 wedge
6 forward facing led

T5 wedge
3 Led in a circle

I'll try and find pic's of them.

[WWSideWinder]

2 x T10 "http://monu.co.nz/index.php?productID=33" these are the people iI bought them from so this is the one in my Car

T5 x 4 "http://www.ledlight.com/t5-wedge-3-led-light.aspx" this is like the ones I have

[RickJamesBish]

New head unit and it's already laden with finger smears and smudges.

[WWSideWinder]

LOL

Have to take it off or it will get stolen....

Sunday I will be washing and Polishing the Car as well as the dash (and Head unit)

[WWSideWinder]

My Dome Light

What I did is I drilled 2 holes and inserted 2 bright blue LED's

The small glass looking things. This way I have the best of both worlds, Blue light and White light.
I have mounted a small switch on the dash to turn the blue LED's on or off.


Hope this helps, If you cant see them tell me and I'll ring them in red or something.

[WWSideWinder]

Better labeled photo.

[WWSideWinder]

OK more work done to the Car.

I'm trying to spruce up the AC controle unit on my car.

I have added more Blue LED's and some new Red ones to the Temprature dial.


Cold


Hot


and in Daylight/Flash


I have them running of the normal light for now but I'm working on getting them to work with the Blue LED's in the Unit
Bright for day and dimmer for night. If any one has experience withthis in the AC unit I'd apreciate any help.

[GriffGirl]

Damnit! You can't do that cool-ass color temp change thing without telling us how you did it! At least a tiny photo? Or is it just way too late for that?

Nice work!

[RickJamesBish]

Wow, very nice job on the temperature knob.

[WWSideWinder]

Thank You

This is still a work in Progress.....

So Far I have 4 red leds and 5 Blue but I'm looking at 3mm leds to get the best light distrebution.

As to How
1) I removed the Clear plastic the normaly surrounds the temperature knob.
2) I solderd up some LEd and placed them inside
3) Drilled a few holes to get the wires out.
4) Connected up the wires.
5) LOL above took me 3 weeks to get to this stage but now it should be quicker.

As I have sead this is a work in Progress and I'm hoping to have a better solution soon
The Problem is that I have to use the Car every day so I cant leve the AC unit out to work on and it's getting a bit batterd with all the in and out stuff.

I will make all plans, mesurements and componets avalabl eto all at 6GC as soon as I can.

[GriffGirl]

Wow. Simply beautiful work. I can't wait to see the illustrated how-tos! I am so eager to do this with my climate control. Of course it won't look as nice because the NON-USDM climate controllers are so much nicer than ours are, but still.

[WWSideWinder]

Hi GriffGirl

Whitch one do you have climate controllers no 1 or No 2

1


2


As you canb See I have 1 but Nat's Celie has 2 and I'll be working on that soon.

[bccentaur3]

I'm sure everyone here in the us with the celica has the second one.

[RickJamesBish]

I know I do, I think bcc is right.

[bccentaur3]

remember we have celicas not currens. I'd be shock to see a celica with the climate control the curren has.

[GriffGirl]

I think the euro Celicas have that 1st climate control. That thing is so nice... it's actually real climate control. Ours is more of an on/off device

So of course, yes, I have the second one too. Only mine is special in that the smaller of the 2 knobs has a crack in it. Adds 5 HP to my engine though!

[WWSideWinder]

delusionz Celica has the 1st type (Jap Import same as my Curren) (1996 SS-III)
Nats SS-I or SS-II has the same as you people.

I'll be working on the lighting for that soon (Pink for Nat)

[parriehunter]

my celica has the first one aswell .

[WWSideWinder]

parriehunter

if you come up to auckland I can work on your unit (if you want )

[DEATH]

parriehunter

if you come up to auckland I can work on your unit (if you want )

OMG - no comment

I wish someone here would be willing to do ours for us. Out of not just curiosity [I am currently in the market for a red converted CC] - how much do you think it would be to source a simple CC unit liek we get here, convert it and ship it to 77040? If the price isn't terribly bad I'd be down to buy one from you [At a profit to you of course]

This post has been edited by DEATH: Nov 20, 2008 - 9:11 AM

[GriffGirl]

death if I figure out how to do mine successfully, I'll help you out w/yours cuz that's how I roll yo

[bmj67]

I ordered 50 3mm blue led off of ebay today so im going to start changing the color on my climate control sometime soon

[WWSideWinder]

Go for it bmj67

Set aside several houres and do it methodicaly and you doo a sweet job.

I love showing off the changes I have made and enthuse outher people to make the chanhes thay have been thinking about.

Suggestions:

1) If you don't have on Get a Multi Meter that can test Diods (i found 1 bad LED in a batch of 10 I bought, with out testing I would have cursed and cursed to try and figuer out what I had done wrong)

2) Post your progress and finished items you will insire outher people.

[WWSideWinder]

New Stuff

This week-end I made 2 changes to my car.

1) I shorted my Auto Gear selector by about an inch thus giving me quicker shifts ( )
2) I have fitted an electric boot/trunk release to go with the key and Cable release that was standard on my car.
With (2) I was hoping to tie it in with my alarm system but sadly I don't think it will work.
Now all I have to do is find a rely good push switch and a good location (thinking of the coved up hole in the dash Drivers Side or the round think next to the driver's vent)
for the boot/trunk release

Suggestion on Locations and types of push switches most welcome.
Also any one know of a Toyota push switch I might use.

[WWSideWinder]

OK More Updates.

Have been wating for the money to do this upgrade to my Ground Wires.

Changed the puny lead going fromt the top of the engin block (under the hoist hook) to new 8 guage wire and also ran a new 8 Guage wire to the new distributer plate (see last photo)



New 4 Guage wire to engin block next to starter motor. 8 Guage wire goes to Distributer plate.



New Distributer for new ground cables.



Now thats thata all sorted on to cleening up the engin bay.

[delusionz]

Sorry to be a party pooper but is there any chance I could reclaim my V12 1400W 4ch amp? My friend has finished rebuilding his badass Honda and now he has his amp and subs back leaving me with no beats

Your ground cables and blue lights look nice now, given this time you've outdone everything I ever wanted to do, nice work

[delusionz]

Btw, You've added an extra positive to the starter motor, Easier starting now?? What about the alternator, Do you plan on adding an extra positive to that?

[Rusty]

I've got one here of the non climate control (not mine, just one I found off the net)

[Sick_Puppy]

Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for putting these up- been wanting to do the same to my Curren (I'm in Wellington), and I'd no idea how... This looks great, and it's given me the push to do stuff with mine again! Good luck with the stuff you're doing, and keep us posted!

[WWSideWinder]

Thank You Sick Puppy

That was the my idea in posting this was to inspire outher people.

If you haev any questions, Please, just ask and the 6gc team (us wallies) will sprinf to your aid.

I have see someone car that has I mos I want to do and I've asked him how he did it.

If there ia anything I can help with just ask.


Delusionz I have, as yet, not added a posotive wire to the starter and Altinator but I will (when I have more money) as I have just purchased a pioneer amp I'll be returning your one back to you as soon as I can.

[Sick_Puppy]

Cheers man, right now I'm in the midst of prepping a pile of stuff to get my car in decent shape again- I've let it go over the years I've had it, so it's due for quite a tidy up as well as a few mods! I'll be changing the gauges and interior lighting to red- I don't want to use LEDs, but finding red caps for bulbs is a PITA, TRD muffler (and possibly some generic headers), replace the broken monsoon visors, repair sunroof, cut and polish and a general detail... but I have a few other things in my life that are taking priority first!

I was considering getting the wiring done, but from this and a few other sites I'm willing to have a crack myself- how much all up do you reckon it would cost for the wiring you've installed/ are installing? Is the one you've installed the one off of trademe? I love the red/blue lights to reflect the change of temperature...

This post has been edited by Sick_Puppy: Jan 25, 2009 - 4:07 AM

[WWSideWinder]

I got the 8 guage wiering from trade me $30 or so and then bought a 1 meter 4 guage wire fron JB-HIFI for about $12 and the Gold terminal at the end of the 4 guage for about $5.
Battery Terminal cosy me $28 (trademe) for the pair.

Then lost and lots of time to get it installed.

The red/blue in the temprature is 4 red LED's and 5 Blue ones.

As I have written before I'm working on a better solution but I kneed to get out to a scrap yard and get another unit so I can work on it.

Also currently They only work with the lights on and I want to see if I can do a day light and night light situation.

[WWSideWinder]

So things have been a little slow since I helped delusionz rig up the Electric Boot/Trunk and Fuel Releses.

I did the Fuel and Trunk Releces on my car, as well, and I'd been looking for a place to put the switches.
I was also looking for a stelth way to do them So this week end I did the following
(Yes delusionz this is ver 2.0 you saw ver 1.0 with the Big switches.)


Stelth Mode


Switches Revield.


Switches Again


Starting at the Top the switches do the Following.

1st Switch - Enables the Truk Relese (Flick switch to 1 and press the big Siler Button (on dash board)

2ns Switch - Enables the Fuel Release (Flick switch to 1 and press the big Siler Button (on dash board)

3rd Switch - Blue LED Curtesy lighting.

4th Switch - lets me see things on the Head unit - this is also wired to the Handbreak as per safty instructions. (PS this is a secret)

5th Switch - This is a big Secret for now

6th Switch - (Blue momentary) Also Secret for now.

I hope to have more updates soon.
nuge nuge

[WWSideWinder]

My Old sound system Sucked as delusionz wanted his Amp back and the Sub was louzy so I have updated my Sound System

1) Changed the head unit to an Alpine FVA-W306 [4 x 45w output and a rca output + volume control for the sub]


2) Installed 8" 3 way Ulitmate Titanium II Full Range Speakers in the fron doors - Left the 6.5" Pioneers in the Back.



3) Bought a 2nd hand (but good) Pioneer GM-X802 (good for 300W in Mono mode) + (Sitll have to change the lights to Blue) [now delusionz wants to swap amps with me]


4) Bought another 2nd hand Sub (Mutch better than the 1st one)


I just love the Sound in my car now (But I still have to sound insulate it).

[Cavegod]

this is my CC how did you fix the leds in the dial to get them that bright?

[delusionz]

Hey man, Can you do my (2x) CC units?

PS. All the bulbs are burnt out in mine, however I don't think it's the bulbs, since they went out in rows? 1st the bottom row, then the middle row, now everything.

I finally finished the cold air intake on the SS-III Celica, man it goes so hard! I'm getting my exhaust redone and my wastegate actuator sorted on Wednesday. I like 18psi but it's a little more useful at 7000rpm as opposed to 5000rpm when its got a fuel cut

[Cavegod]

what you want doing??

[freddy121389]

wtf the PRNDL is in the gauge cluster on euro cars?

[Cavegod]

prndl??

oh for the auto gearbox

[WWSideWinder]

this is my CC how did you fix the leds in the dial to get them that bright?

This is still a work in Progress.....

So Far I have 4 red leds and 5 Blue but I'm looking at 3mm leds to get the best look.

As to How
1) I removed the Clear plastic the normaly surrounds the temperature knob.
2) I solderd up some LEd and placed them inside
3) Drilled a few holes to get the wires out.
4) Connected up the wires.
5) LOL above took me 3 weeks to get to this stage but now it should be quicker.

As I have sead this is a work in Progress and I'm hoping to have a better solution soon
The Problem is that I have to use the Car every day so I cant leve the AC unit out to work on and it's getting a bit batterd with all the in and out stuff.

I will make all plans, mesurements and componets avalable to all at 6GC as soon as I can.

[Cavegod]

ah i did the same , i also fitted an led in each button to light them up at night, i have now connected it to the dash dimmer as it was a bit bright at night!

[WWSideWinder]

Hey man, Can you do my (2x) CC units?

PS. All the bulbs are burnt out in mine, however I don't think it's the bulbs, since they went out in rows? 1st the bottom row, then the middle row, now everything.

I finally finished the cold air intake on the SS-III Celica, man it goes so hard! I'm getting my exhaust redone and my wastegate actuator sorted on Wednesday. I like 18psi but it's a little more useful at 7000rpm as opposed to 5000rpm when its got a fuel cut

Long time no see mate....

How is the boot and fuel release going (Still love playing with the new switches I installed )

If you can drop one off and do with out if for about 2 weeks I can do it (over worked at work BUT hay I have a job so not all bad )

I can then re work all the LED's and do a better job of the Temp scale.

Still got to take the GT4 out for a decent spin.... soon

[WWSideWinder]

wtf the PRNDL is in the gauge cluster on euro cars?

I have green ones in the guage cluster

Note the Green P and Blue RND2L




And next to the Shifter on the center console Blue - But it has stoped working (cheap LED is broken - 1 sunny non work week end and it will be great again.



This is a Jap import into New Zealand not a euro car euro cars may not have this.

[delusionz]

Hows progress?

Hey do u have a star screw driver with a dot in the middle? Sorry I can't explain it any better, but those screws are on the seatbelt latch. The flashing light on the dash that tells u that you aren't wearing your seatbelt has never worked in my st205.

i had my factory boost controller capped off and it still hasnt fixed my overboost problem I may need to install an intake restricter or something

[WWSideWinder]

HI delusionz

I can get one from work if you want...

Could do with your help I'm just finishing installing guages on my dash.

Now for the hard part installing the adapter plate onto the block.

When are you going to drop off the AC unites for me to work on?

[WWSideWinder]

Latest Updates.......


Aftermarket Oil Press, Oil Temp and Water Temp Guages







Unfortinatly they are only in White but I'm looking into changing to blue.


Now a lot of People will go "What a wast his engine is stock" BUT

I love my Guages and have been wanting to get these for a long time.
I have fond out that on my daily trip to work and back only in the last 5 - 10% is my oil temprature in the correct place (90 to 95 Dec C).
So now I know when to floor the accelareter and when not to.

In the next few days I'll poost more pictures of the sender units. (Something I was looking for before I installed)

[WWSideWinder]

I have changed my Gauages again for better looking ones.

The 3 new guages


New Water Temp Guage


New Oil Temp Guage


New Oil Press guage (Not in PSI nor Bar but in Kg/cm2)
[1 kilogram-force/square centimeter = 14.223 343 334 pound/square inch]


Now and this is interesting for me and possably others out their wiht the same guages (Water temp, Oil, Temp and Oil Press) can confirm this.

My Oil Press workes well being high on start up (6 to 7 on my guage [85 to 99 PSI] but when the engin is hot is is aroun 1 [14 PSI]

The Water temprature is a lot faster that the oil temp with the oil only getting to 100 C at the end of 20 to 30 minutes of driving.
On my guages the water temp varies from 87.5 to 92.5 C and so far the highest reading on the oil is 100 C

Any one want to compare reading with me?



Hay deluzions call me abou my old guages as well as changing your Air Con units (I'll even do them in read well blue ones for the cold part of the temp setting)

[cyprus_gt]

Nice job mate!
waiting for new mods from you
cheers

[WWSideWinder]

Thank you Gyprus_GT

I'm changing the Air Con unit for Smiley'95 GT-4 Hatchback.

Once I have a better finish (My one was 1st go and a bit of a mess) I'll be posting a how to.

[delusionz]

Hey nice dials.

kg/cm2 is similar to bar as 1 bar is also between 14 to 15 psi.

my boost gauge reads x100 kPa (which is bar)

The Water temprature is a lot faster that the oil temp with the oil only getting to 100 C at the end of 20 to 30 minutes of driving.

that would be the thermostat.

Hey does the rise of your water temp gauge match the rise of your stock gauge? I keep to 1/8th of the pedal until the stock temp gauge gets half way

This post has been edited by delusionz: Sep 7, 2009 - 12:04 PM

[WWSideWinder]

Yes I'm loving my guages.....

Got a complement about them from VTNZ when I woffed my Car on the week end.

My stock water temp is on the block and the After market is on the Radiato Pipe so they are out of sync untill the thermostat opens.

With the guages showing me tempratures I do not hit the gas pedal hard untill I have at least 60 on the oil temp.


Come on over this week end to have a look.

PS. I have the 52mm guages that I first installed if you are intrested (With your turbo you should have these guages)
You will have to look at getting http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-239519305.htm
and http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C...n-240593491.htm

These are what I've used and I installed in about 2 houres (Good clen looks OEM instalation - I'll be putting up photos soon)