DIY: '89 Swift LED speed cluster

Yo, I completed this LED speedometer of my Suzuki Swift 1989 last month

Was confused about how to turn needles to red so i first used red nail polish but that didnt work well enough so i experimented with glass paint transparent one not the crystal one which turned out pretty great actually.....

So here are the pics which will help you out in make your very own LED speed cluster with very little cost...

In Pakistan people in market asked me for Rs.2500 for this thing and it turned out that i completed this work under Rs.100 :)

so here you go

This is the inside of my Speed Cluster... as you can see i had a lot of space to work with so there wasnt any kind of   problem in working

This is the underside of the speed gauge where there was green paint which illuminated green light when parking light was on. It was very dull so removed the paint with nail polish remover as its easy to use but you have to be careful not to remove paint other than the back on numbers..

Here you can see that i have cleansed the needle with nail polish remover

It is difficult to cut PCB board like this unless you have right tools so i used card board to make the base for my LEDs which would be placed in cluster directly beneath the gauge

 

I did the same for both fuel and temp gauge as well and result was as follows

If you guys have any queries/problems feel free to ask

DIY: '89 Swift Rear LED lights

Its been a while that i ve been searching for LED rear lights of any kind of light that cud make my ride look better but cudnt find any..

so i thought y nt to get them custom made so i went to babu mahala (Pakistan) to get an estimate. Well they made me rethink abt getting those lights done by asking a lil to much

So this brought me to this point that nw i ve strtd making Rear LED lights on my own and by DIY i mean that these things are really being done by my own hands and as i m accounting student this make me more than happy that i m doing this thing abt which i knw nothing...if someone said resistor i was like..Huh??!!

The Project is far from completion but wud be updating u guys frm time to time as this project proceeds

Till then this is wat i ve done.....So do give comments and also suggestion; And specially criticism wud be entertained

First i started of by cutting the board according to the size which wud fit in the light housing and then i made the wiring connection as you can see in the image below... adn after completing the circuit i applied silicon glue to make my circuit water proof just in case any water gets inside the rear light housing...

I attached the LEDs in series of 3 as they r easy to connect and connected all the series in parallel....In all cars battery supplies 12v which is way to much for LEDs to handle so for Crystal Red LED 330ohms of resistor is required which is connected with the positive terminal of power and for Crystal White I used 180ohms of resistor for each series as shown in pic below

if u want to experiment with LEDs and resistors then you can click here for further help regarding connection of LEDs and resistors

After that i checked my circuit by placing it in the light cover to see its result and i was very happy with what i have done so far

I made two sets of LEDs circuit on each PCB board to differentiate between Brake light and Parking light as you can see below...

BRAKE LIGHT

PARKING LIGHT

To make separate connection for Brake and Parking light u will find that there are 3 wires connected to your brake light.

Black one is ground wire which is connected to any metal part of the car, Red one is of the parking light wire and Green one is of Brake light. What you have to do is that you have to connect -ve wires of both LEDs circuit to Black/Ground wire and connect the outside circuit's +ve wire with parking/Red wire and connect the inside circuit's +ve wire with Brake/Green wire and your connection is done and the end result wud be as shown above :)

wiring color can vary depending on your car

if oyu have any problems/queries feel free to ask