Changing instrumentation colour on the NA6

[CheyneX5]

Wow, that look pretty cool, not something i would do imo but definatly different

[crzymx]

Yeah because the door lights have been connected to the door trigger, which from memory is a little red and white wire under the scuff pad. You could disconnect that, and either connect it to a switch or another ignition wire so they come on either with ignition or with the flick of a switch.

[graemebc]

Thanks I will have a look at that when I get a chance now you have pointed me in the right direction.
Thought you might want to have a look at this too. I build & run around in them at work.

[Jace]

that ebay kit looks good, with the installation side of it though, i have a 1989 NA6 and i heard that when you try to remove the instrument hood there is a big chance of at least one of the clips breaking and i really dont want to have to get one of those ugly matte ones

ugly matte ones?
as in a matte black instrument hood? i'm keen as hell! i hate the reflection of the hood onto the inside of the windscreen and was considering spraying the hood black anyway.
where can these hoods be found and how much?

[crzymx]

Oh well, just put it back in one clip less.

What is the purpose of that van?

[graemebc]

Crazy, its for Network road surveys.

The front bar has 13 lasers to measure the surface, 2 accelerometers ( the same units in cruise missiles) a trial GPR unit (ground penetrating radar) and a Gipsi trac unit that uses gyroscope's to measure the road geometry,
The top has 5 to 8 digital networked high def colour video cameras, recording to 4 quit large pc's running proprietary connection hardware and software. All up about 950 thousand to build. The front bar is about a quarter of a mill.
About 3 months ago I clobbered a roo at 90kmh with one. Alot of money so we can tell you the roads stuffed...

[Fatty]

that ebay kit looks good, with the installation side of it though, i have a 1989 NA6 and i heard that when you try to remove the instrument hood there is a big chance of at least one of the clips breaking and i really dont want to have to get one of those ugly matte ones

ugly matte ones?
as in a matte black instrument hood? i'm keen as hell! i hate the reflection of the hood onto the inside of the windscreen and was considering spraying the hood black anyway.
where can these hoods be found and how much?

your local mazda dealer, mx5 mania etc etc ... they don't make them in the shiny black finish anymore, any oem replacement hood is matt black these days. they're about $90 iirc.

[crzymx]

Sound pretty fancy. My old n95 had a accelerometer .. i think..

[graemebc]

crzy my iphone has a couple too but their not "quite" in the same league.
These ones require an ok from the MOD for us to ship cars OS to customers.

[crzymx]

Theres some shitty roads near me? Care to help?

[graemebc]

We are about to survey the whole of Vic roads in about 2 weeks.
We tell the Vic roads what's wrong it's up to them to fix em

[crzymx]

Well make sure you give the back road to altona off kororoit creek road a look coz i can barely get over it past 5 k's in my 5. cmon you should understand!!

Also give Williamstown a look first for some, well most of their roads Its funny coz the main roads are worse than the resedential.

[BURST]

Bringing up an old topic.

I was wondering if anyone has changed the heater/centre console lights in a NA or if anyone knows what bulbs are needed.

And also would someone be able to confirm that with the dash lights I need 4 T10 bulbs and 1 T5 bulb.

Thanks.

[7Hazi]

Just on the topic, those cluster lights that change colour on the bottom of the last page are crap! I now own that car and they havent worked for quite a while. I took apart the cluster and turns out the original face dials were removed when the colour changing faces were put on. I also checked all the connections/fuses/etc and they are all fine. I do not reccommend anyone get these - they are just a bitch to deal with. Now I am reduced to clamping a small battery powered torch to my steering wheel at night... lol

[Jeo]

Heater controls are a bitch as you can't scrape off the green tinted stuff without scraping off the front too. All you end up doing is destroying it. I started making up some templates to make a front from scratch ages ago but never got around to finishing it. There's a topic somewhere on cr.net about making your own gauges, I was planning on using the same methods to make these.