Instrument bulbs and rocker cover paint!

[ralphy12345]

How about that for two diverse questions?!!!

1) Having already bought some instrument LED bulbs off the 'Bay - and got the wrong ones - could some kind member point me to the correct ones by way of a linky?

2) I rather fancy painting up the rocker covers and associated metalwork but would like recommendation as to what paint to use on such potentially hot metal?

Many thanks!

R

[SILICONE KID]

I had the plenum and rocker covers powder coated in satin black for 40 pounds and looks the business..

[ralphy12345]

SILICONE KID said:

I had the plenum and rocker covers powder coated in satin black for 40 pounds and looks the business..

That sounds a reasonable alternative. Any subsequent problems regarding heat?

Ideally I'd like to be able to do the job myself, I'm keen to do as much as I can on the refurb of my car!

Anyone up for assistance with the LED instrument lighting request???

R

[John042]

Hi, I purchased the 4xheater LED's from e-b** listed under 'TVR Parts' I thought I was being careful but broke 3 out of 4. The set of 4 for about £16 includes 2x pin shaped lights, 2x triangled shaped ones. Hope this helps. John042.

[Cedar]

What was the original purple finish on the covers? Its looking a bit tired and ideally I'd also like to redo it myself.. any tips?

[ralphy12345]

John042 said:

Hi, I purchased the 4xheater LED's from e-b** listed under 'TVR Parts' I thought I was being careful but broke 3 out of 4. The set of 4 for about £16 includes 2x pin shaped lights, 2x triangled shaped ones. Hope this helps. John042.

Hi John
it's actually the bulbs that go into the dial instruments I'm looking to upgrade to LED. The ones I bought off eBay had a collar around the bulb which prevented them sliding into the holder on the instruments :-(, hence me asking for a link to the correct ones. I'm sure someone on here will have upgraded to LED's. ;-)

R

[scotty_d]

Hammerite has been great for my rocker covers still holding up fine years later and thousands of miles on.

[lesstatt]

here you go, i did it a year or so ago, used these people for the bits

http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/index.php?osCsid=3d8411...


Topic here

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Dash bulbs&mid=130606

[ralphy12345]

lesstatt said:

here you go, i did it a year or so ago, used these people for the bits

http://www.ultraleds.co.uk/index.php?osCsid=3d8411...


Topic here

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0... Dash bulbs&mid=130606

OK, thanks for that.

lesstatt said:

Ordered a selection so lets see what looks ok and what doesnt, also the gauge around the original buld holder is all brown and burnt so prob changing to LED will also reduce het and might not make the gauges steam up at night, i've gone for these

501/194/T10 Single 10mm Blue Spot Light Bulb
UBA91W (233) BA9 - 9mm BC One Led White Bulb
UBA96G(233) BA9 - 9mm BC 6 Leds Green Bulb

So which one would be correct for the instrument replacements, please?

R

[ralphy12345]

BTW,
these are the ones I originally ordered, but the collar between base and LED's prevents them from fitting inside the tube on the instrument:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

R

[lesstatt]

Hmm i bought BA9 as well, found the green ones looked best, the clock and the rev counter or speedo take diff ones, all numbers are in original post

Main instruments are these

UBA96G(233) BA9 - 9mm BC 6 Leds Green Bulb

Rev counter or speedo cant remember which is

501/194/T10 Single 10mm Blue Spot Light Bulb

and the clock was different but cant recall number for that sorry

Edited by lesstatt on Wednesday 17th November 21:37

Edited by lesstatt on Wednesday 17th November 21:38

[Derek Smith]

ralphy12345 said:

How about that for two diverse questions?!!!

1) Having already bought some instrument LED bulbs off the 'Bay - and got the wrong ones - could some kind member point me to the correct ones by way of a linky?

2) I rather fancy painting up the rocker covers and associated metalwork but would like recommendation as to what paint to use on such potentially hot metal?

Many thanks!

R

See http://www.rv8r.co.uk/rocker.html

[ralphy12345]

Derek Smith said:

See http://www.rv8r.co.uk/rocker.html

Brilliant!!!!!! Just what I needed - and more!

Many thanks for that.

R

[ralphy12345]

lesstatt said:

Hmm i bought BA9 as well, found the green ones looked best, the clock and the rev counter or speedo take diff ones, all numbers are in original post

Main instruments are these

UBA96G(233) BA9 - 9mm BC 6 Leds Green Bulb

Rev counter or speedo cant remember which is

501/194/T10 Single 10mm Blue Spot Light Bulb

and the clock was different but cant recall number for that sorry.

Ah, I hadn't realised there was different bulbs in the instruments - just assumed they were all the same - so now the above makes sense.

Whilst the rev counter is as bright as the secondary instruments the speedo is less so, is there anything (other than a brighter LED) that's been done to improve it?

R

[lesstatt]

Yup 3 different type bulbs are needed, best to take dash top off and get them out and go to bulb place to match them up if you not sure about it, as for brightness the way i understand it is 1 led has only 1 small led and 4 led has 4 etc etc therefore its brighter

[ralphy12345]

lesstatt said:

Yup 3 different type bulbs are needed, best to take dash top off and get them out and go to bulb place to match them up if you not sure about it, as for brightness the way i understand it is 1 led has only 1 small led and 4 led has 4 etc etc therefore its brighter

Will do.

Thanks.

R

[phillpot]

ralphy12345 said:

Whilst the rev counter is as bright as the secondary instruments the speedo is less so, is there anything (other than a brighter LED) that's been done to improve it?

R

My car had been converted to blue led's when I bought it. There is a very small one in each small instrument and the bulb holder tube bit on the back has been squashed down to take them.
The speedo only had one bulb holder whereas the tacho has two so did not light up with such a nice uniforn "glow" , I improved this (I think) by making a second hole in the back, bought selection of led's off Ebay and played around until got it as best I could.