White Face Gauges for the RX8
 

Has anyone found white face gauges for the RX8?

has anyone looked for any?

wouldn't want any white faced gauges. imo.

ew. the gauges on the rx8 are unique and one of the best looking. dont need white faced gauges. dont turn your car into a civic type of car and mod it up with no sense of looks at all. BTW, stickers dont add more hp

EXACTLY

I beg to differ...I've seen a lot of civics with plenty of stickers. It's a known fact that 1 sticker=5hp!!! The bigger the sticker...watch out!!!:D

Looks great stock...

Some people think the Mazda RX8 looks sexy with stock gauages, while others beg to differ and think that it needs a new style. Nonetheless, I doubt a change in gauge color will affect the beauty of the RX8. That is just my 2 cents.

haha i hate jokesters that try to trick people

i actually believed that stickers added hp, when i was younger

I have always thought the gauges looked GREAT in the RX-8, even more so at night time. I wouldn't change a thing with the gauges. With that said, I have a difficult time reading the LED display above the radio during the day. I have to hold my hand over it to be able to read it on a sunny day.

The light I can't see in daylight is the AC ... even with my hand over it on a bright day, it's impossible to read on or off.

Wouldnt the cold air coming out of the vents give it away....... :D

Not really. It's not as cold as other cars, so I was thinking it wasn't on. The light is hard to see. Needs to be brighter.

I bet some cool custom gauges will be out soon

I'd have to see them first but I might want them

I would be interested in a kit to change the red backlighting of the gauge faces to blue (indgo). My VW's had this and it is very good on the eyes

In terms of not messing up dark-adapted eyes, red is actually ideal. That's why astronomy supply houses sell flashlights with red shields.

jds

The blue light from the gauges would be kind of cool with my blue rex, but I'd still leave the gauges as is, they give it that nice touch with out being civic rice.

thats true. when we are in black out ops we can only use red lenses if we have to use a flashlight. doesn't kill your night vision as much.

Actually the blue green color is better for your eyes than the red. Years ago the U. S. Army did a study and placed three acft out in a field and turned on the instrument lighting. One with white lenses, one with red and the last with a green/blue color lenses. They then looked at the acft thru NVGs at a distance of 5kms the white, well it looked like it was a ball of fire. The red one looked like the whole interiorr was glowing and the blue green showed no glowing at all, the windows all showed up black. Granted this was to see if acft that were on missions under black out conditions could be detected by the enemy thru the NVGs. The acft with red interior lighting could be seen up to 5km away using current NVG technology. This is why all army acft now come equipped with green lighting and older acft have been retrofitted with geen flood lights on all the consoles.

Oh and a side note night vision was restored 50% faster after viewing the breen/blue llight then with red.

??? What is acft and NVG? And why is the US Army using the metric system?

Actually, when the A/C is activated there is also an icon for it in the red led display so you don't have to look down to the bottom of the console. In the daytime I need to lift my sunglasses to read the red display.

WTF bro! The U. S. military has always used the metric system. It lends it self to interoperability with our NATO members.

acft = aircraft

NVG = Night Vision Goggles

Because they are smarter than the rest of the country.

12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard

What gibberish..

Everytime some one starts talking about modding their car I break out the example of The Beverly Hillbillies where Jethro hotrods (vintage term - some of you may not know what this means- the modern slang would be "mod") the family jalopy. He ends up with so many left over parts that Granny puts them back together, and just to prove that the old car was fine as is, pours some quadruple X moonshine and smokes Jethro at the strip.

Moral of the story: You want a faster car, buy a faster car. Also applies to cosmetics. If you don't like the way it looks, get a different car. The car stock is great.

movies mad funny
and that is very interesting about the night vision...
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LovelyWendie99

just because you dont want to mod your car doesnt mean others shouldnt. car modding is a hobby ya know.

this could be the worst analogy I have EVER heard

Stock looks are the best....

^^^ to you
not everyone

The gauges look great and they are very easy to view in the sun or at night. Not sure why the complaints.......

Anyway, adding the 10 yellow APC stickers WILL give you 50 more HP. Invest now! haha

Modding a car allows someone to make the car unique and shows a bit of the drives personality. Its another way to express yourself

I agree 100% :D ....just I don't mod for looks too much. I'll add subtle things(clear corners, rotary accents, UK spoiler, etc.) I'll mod for performance. I'm all set with these heavy bodykits that just take away from performance(as small as it may be). I'll make it go faster, stop better, turn better, before I tack on a bodykit, stereo, or bling wheels.

That's just me....those guys with bodykits and stuff, hey, you like your ride, then rock on man.

I strongly encourage everyone to do whatever they want with their own car. After signing off, we will quickly forget about whatever you've done to it. You're the one who drives it. Enjoy it.

Rock On....

When I originally posted the question about the white gauges I didn't know this subject would be so controversial. I just wanted to see what they would look like, if available.

I'm surprised its a year since the car came out and there is no options out yet

Here some gauges for you guys

http://www.xtreme-tuning.com/imagene...azda-RX8-3.jpg

Did someone say they wanted to get white-face gauges for their RX-8? That is worse than my gold headlamp idea (I lied. Nothing is cooler than my idea :)). The gauges are so cool, especially at night, why change them? That is like removing my eyeball or something...

mmm blue, I love blue. I'd like to substitute blue lights for all the red lights in the car.

Like Rotary Nut stated.... The cockpit of the F/A-18 in fact, uses green lights when the pilots are using their night vision goggles.

As for me the maintainer, when it was pitch black out in the middle of the Med on the deck of an aircraft carrier, the only lights that are on in the cockpit are the green ones, you can see every gauge just fine. :D But when I would kick both engines into After Burner that kinda defeated the purpose. :D

As for the 8's dash lights? Man, I wouldn't want them any other way. Especially since ours is the VelRed with Red/Black Leather.

I have mixed opinions about the RX-8 gauges. I think the look real cool, but are not as functional as they could be. I liked the gauges better in my RX-7 twin turbo. Best gauges in any car I had. They were a classic black on white in the day (non illumimated) & red on black when you put the lights on. It had an analog speedmeter also.

Although the RX-8 gauges look neat, I think it is very easy to forget to turn them on at night. The highly illuminated lights off position gives the impression the lights are on.

I also don't like the way I need to set the illumnation to brightest in the day time then to dimmer at night.

A small analog speedmeter would be nice (Digital takes longer to read at a glance), but I have gotten used to using the combination of digital speedmeter & tach.

I am sure I would never replace the gauges though.

No one is ever going to convince me that a modded car looks classier than a stock car unless something is removed, and not added. Adding crap busies up the design. Debadging is about the only exterior mod that doesn't look crass. An interesting thing that some Europeans do is take the displacement badges off of their cars, for example the "330Ci" on a big engined 3 series coupe - when they have the bigger engines and more expensive trim levels - so as to not differentiate their models from the less expensive ones, like a 320Ci. That's pretty classy in my book.

Back to the gauges, why waste your time and money on the gauges? I just don't get it.

BTW, modded cars generally have lower resale value than stock vehicles.

But, that's an intrinsic problem with an enthusiast web site. Some folks buy a new car they like and then want to change it around. Others find the car they like so they don't have to change anything on it. Let's remember that the classic definition of a sports car is a low slung car with nothing on it that doesn't make it go faster.

I'll admit that I wish the car had slightly different, smoother more integrated sheet metal at the front fender/body junction instead of the pontoon fenders. I wish the rear quarter windows didn't have the reverse taper at the rear edge and looked more like a traditional quarter window. I know, Mazda did this on purpose to quote the original RX-7 greenhouse. (I owned one of those too.) I wish the tailights weren't so busy, and looked more like the classic Ferrari two circular lights type deal. And you know what, I'm not going to take the car to a body shop to get this stuff fixed.

The reason I come to this site is to get info on the car, vis a vis manufacturing issues, reliability, recalls, etc, and discuss driving, owning, and otherwise enjoying the vehicle.

Sure, it's your money and your car, and this is a free country, so do what you want. I'll just suggest that buying a new car and then replacing a bunch of its stock parts with aftermarket stuff is a great way to waste your money and time and lower the resale value of the car. Additionally, pulling apart the dash and then replacing the stock parts with aftermarket sounds like a recipe for rattles and less than factory quality reassembly.

Hypocrisy check: Yeah, I know my sig sez "maybe clear corners..." - but I'm still bone stock;)

I'm with you Rotary787!

:D

Plus, I’d really like to see added (as an optional if it can’t be standard) a complete fully functional gage display pack that clearly and accurately shows the normal and abnormal state of things with regards to: engine temperature, voltage/battery (Hey Mazda, there's room right now for a voltage/battery gage that will fit tastefully in the dash by the oil temp gage ...and as of now it's IMHO sorely missing) and oil pressure with an analog speedometer (or some kind of digital indicator that replaces the swing of the needle- maybe some kind of horizontal bar graph underor above the digital speedometer readout screen or else a digital light ring around the edge of the tach gage)!

Was that from the RX-evolve or the first concept/pre-production RX-8?

I actually like how the gages are set up now, on the real RX-8, than compared to what we saw at the auto shows way back when ... we just need more gages!

;)

I beg to differ...I've seen a lot of civics with plenty of stickers. It's a known fact that 1 sticker=5hp!!! The bigger the sticker...watch out!!!

lmao

evil..

Well one sticker equals five HP then the larger the sticker means more torque!