Ready for summer, suspension upgrade

[smagerstein]

Hello all,

Nice sunny sunday morning so I thought Id spruce up the Box and take a couple pics.



Also wanted to show the following upgrades/modes Ive done in the last month or so.

• New front and rear to links
• CC rear box/silencers
• Lowering springs H&R 30mm
• 20mm spacers front and back
• chrome nuts
• new instrument cluster (original died ) but now its silver dials

So a little money spent this year, and that will do me.

Cheers

[particlewave]

Gorgeous!

Since you had your cluster out, do you know if the lcd portions are naturally monochrome with the amber color provided by a light or filter, or are the lcd's themselves amber?
I ask because the color does not suit me. I would be thrilled if they were monochrome(black and clear) so that I could change the backlight to blue. My guess is that the lcd is polarized to that particular wavelength of light, but I'm going to check anyway. A boy can dream...

It's a long shot, but I thought I'd ask. I'm going to remove the cluster this week to find out for sure, if I can't tell by looking closely at the gauges.
Also, any hints on how to get the cluster out would be great!

Thanks! And again, beautiful 986!

[thstone]

The color of the LCD's in the instrument cluster can be changed by changing the bulb color. I already have mine changed to blue by using a set of blue LED's.

[bar10dah]

Originally Posted by thstone

I already have mine changed to blue by using a set of blue LED's.

Details, please!

[particlewave]

That is awesome!!!
I'll do it this week and post a thread with pics.

[particlewave]

I couldn't wait, so I pulled the instrument cluster right after work. I can confirm that the lcd's ARE monochrome, clear and black! I used a flashlight with color filters to play with different color options.

Very cool! Going to radio shack ASAP for some leds. Sorry for highjacking your thread.

[thstone]

Here is a thread on replacing the cluster lamps: http://986forum.com/forums/performance-technical-chat/31310-dash-cluster-display-not-working.html

Replacement LED's can be bought at: PorscheLEDS.com - Porsche LEDs Replacements for the Porsche 996 Boxster 993 964 911 928 968 944

[particlewave]

I wish I had seen that before my trip to the Shack. Oh well. I went a different route, anyway. I bought tri-color leds(red, green, blue), a small project board, and a micro switch set. This way, I'll have 4 color options; red, green, blue, and purple.