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Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:40 pm
by maxxymilian
Played with some SMD led bulbs today and managed to achieve a strangely beautiful fenomenon - color changing needles of the speedo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLcCcQo ... e=youtu.be
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:54 pm
by Gary406
do you always red line it like that ?
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:24 pm
by maxxymilian
Only when tha handbrake is on
I know what the car is capable of and it's definately not built for racing. There is an almost abandoned military airport 12 miles from my town - 1.5 miles and 8 lanes of freedom. We go there sometimes for a drive. Sadly i have no pics of the 406 from there but i have one of my first love:
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 11:28 pm
by Gary406
just my experience doing that is not a good one. had a few cars i use to do that with and they didnt seem to last . well untill they started to knacker up
the air strip sounds good.
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:21 pm
by JD406
That looks really good
How did you do it then?
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:50 pm
by maxxymilian
I changed the bulbs that light up the right side of the odometer (and the needle in the left side) and the speedometer with white D5 leds. That way the needle is white when in the left side and orange when in the right side.
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:04 pm
by ToddM
Genius! Did you buy the LEDs separately and fit them with resistors? If so what size LEDs and what resistor values did you use?
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:56 am
by maxxymilian
I used smd leds from dealextreme. They are the same size as the original bulb. I can't find the exact ones but they look like these:
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/t5-0-14w-8 ... air-104171
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:35 am
by maxxymilian
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:48 pm
by maxxymilian
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:22 pm
by highlander
They have done a great job on that wheel!
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:53 pm
by ToddM
highlander wrote:They have done a great job on that wheel!
Bulgarian magic!
The wheel does look mighty fit! Was it someone in the North-West region that did it for you, Maxy? How much was it if you don't mind me asking?
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 9:57 am
by maxxymilian
The guy is a specialist from Peshtera. The whole thing (buying the wheel, retrim, postage) was about 40 euro. It's actually not leather. I demanded the trim was leather. He explained to me that he uses special german materials and this trim will actually last longer than leather. The trick is that this material doesn't adsorb sweat and therefor doesn't peel after time. He makes both leather trims and this material and he convinced me that this is the better choice despite it was cheaper
Showed me such wheel after two years of use, it looked mint! The retrim costed 25 euro.
BTW, ordered a set of black seatbelts - front and rear for he black coupe interior comming in this spring. I plan to install front and rear (yes, rear too) coupe seats in the saloon
just love that pininfarina design...
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:22 am
by highlander
maxxymilian wrote:He makes both leather trims and this material and he convinced me that this is the better choice despite it was cheaper
Showed me such wheel after two years of use, it looked mint!
I'm told the Coupe steering wheel is leather - doesn't feel like it to me, but there is stitching there. My wheel is the original factory-fitted unit and is nearly 10 years old (car was born in March 2002), and has no peeling. This is probably due to it living in Scotland where the car never really gets too hot inside though
maxxymilian wrote:I plan to install front and rear (yes, rear too) coupe seats in the saloon
just love that pininfarina design...
Coupe seats are by Recaro, but the trimming on them is by Pininfarina. It is a nice design and the seats are very comfortable, and offer a lot of support. The bolsters are soft enough to be comfortable, but firm enough to keep you snugly in the middle of your seat even if you drive like a complete lunatic.
Note that the rear bench on the Coupe only seats two people because the bolsters are quite wide, leaving room only for a small storage compartment just under the usual ski flap. I'm not sure that the rear bench will fit the saloon at all, but if it does, you will not be able to seat three people behind you - not sure if that is of concern to you though.
Re: Little miss Perfect
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:24 pm
by maxxymilian
It's possible and has been done. Will upload pics when i have the time