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.

 

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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