Baileys - my smooth, creamy beige '91 Vic

[Dave84]

I definitly now am partial to the full armrests with all the controls are your fingertips, I just wish they were vinyl door panels... I gotta find some

Did panther7t9 ever get back to you on those ones he has?

[85crownHPP]

not recently, he's probably waiting for me to make a $ amount offer to motivate him, like I would
Im not worried about it, Im not supposed to be spending anyway... gotta save up for Scottfest!!! (if i wind up being able to go)

[85crownHPP]

Recently I decided to plan like I will make it to Scottfest, and decide to take the 91 - (AC, better gas mileage... its been good so I guess this is its chance to prove itself...)
Some type of CD player head unit was a must, so I decided to go ahead and spend some $$ on that and a few other goodies...

I recently installed the Clarion USB/CD head unit and replaced the ashtray light with one of my 194 LED fixtures. I tried to make the cig lighter illumination LED but the design of the fixture doesnt work out too well.
Ive also taken apart the rest of the dash to do a few things...
For one to replace the HVAC controll with one that doesnt have floppy knobs, also swapped in an LED bulb of course.
Also removed the bulb from the defroster button (would not take an LED) and loaded the instrument cluster with 5LED 194 bulbs... turned out better than I thought!! Although it holds 8 of them. 8!!!! I had to rob some from the 85 to do it but those will be replaced soon.
Also I began demeling out the dash bezel to hold the blue digital gauges and an LED rocker switch, simmilar to how the police gauges were installed but much less of a hack job of course

Completed pics wont be for a while... still waiting on an electric sender and the volt meter...

[zwack88]

Sweet mang! Did you go with colored lights in the speedo? If so how well do they show up? I want green if I know they work in a 90-91 speedo, Christine style.lol

[85crownHPP]

They look damn good... I can see them a little bit and its still light outside, just overcast. Ill take some pics when it gets dark

[zwack88]

Sweet! Looking forward to it, was there a filter you had to take off??

[85crownHPP]

Its like a green flim under the printed speedo face itself... I found that out by discecting one at the junkyard. Cant take it out without peeling off the face... I guess the LEDs overpower it and work well with the fiber optic thingies. Heres an old CVN thread where I discovered the thingies...

http://www.crownvic.net/ubbthreads/u...rue#Post474811

[85crownHPP]

a little something blue

[1987cp]

That pic isn't bad .... kind of cool, actually. What are the digital doodads over in the center of the dash reading "57P" and "14037"?

[88Vic]

Looks awesome mang, bet that would be sweet in person. But it'd be even cooler with the 140mph speedo.

[FatNasty]

gigidy!

[85crownHPP]

the gauges are oil pressure and volts...
the volts is just a generic volt meter circuit board I guess isnt suppoesed to go in a car becuase it needed a 5volt source I had to improvise, and it changes over about .30 volts constantly, I guess its not supposed to do AC power :confused: I guess I should have just used the one made by Stinger for cars, but it was bigger, cost more, and I had to try this drop in mount thing.
The oil pressure one is BRIGHT it hardly dims with the dimmer. I need to tint a cheap flashlight lens and cover that thing or something!!!
Plus it thinks below 40psi is dangerous and starts flashing at me as part of a warning mode so when I hot idle its sitting there flashing 27... 27... 27... 27 ... cold start reads close to 60psi, warm driving around 40.

Oh the dremel got away from me in a couple parts, dont trust a drunken dremel hand! You can see it up close, its not too bad, still less of a hack job than the police gauges

[Lincolnmania]

nice

[gadget73]

heh, it thinks under 40 is dangerous lol. Clearly this was not a gauge designed for use in a Ford vehicle.

[boXman]

So true...