Interior lights, which bulbs? Options

[6strngs]

ok, I changed my clock to blue today following the how-to and using a folder divider-tab thing! woot! but now I want to change the rest of my interior lights to blue now as well! for the gauge cluster, I'll be getting some reverse-glow gauges (probably these) and I'd like my mph to be blue, the kph to be red, the needles to be red, the milage and trip odometer blue, turn signal lights blue. as far as I know, all other cluster lights (brake, oil, airbag, battery, seatbelt, etc.) are red so they can stay the same, except the fuel light, so I'd like to make that red as well. (blue highbeam light can remain blue)

I want to make the light in the driver's side window switch blue.

I want to make the light around the ignition blue.

for my climate control, I'd like all the regular lights blue, and the lights that are in the little squares that light up when the button is pressed to be red.

I'd also like the light above the rear view mirror that comes on when the doors open to be blue.

ANYWAY!!!!!!!! My question is, what bulbs do I need? I know most are 194 and 74. But the thing I really would like to know, is how many of each to complete all this? also, I'd like to know the recommended brightness (for the bulbs that are available in different brightnesses) For the dome light, I'd like it to be just as bright as the stock light, so I dunno if I can do that with LED lights, or if I could find a regular light bulb in blue. For the ring around the ignition, I'd like to be as close to the stock brightness as possible, maybe a little brighter. For the window switch, I want it brighter than stock. In the celicatech how-to the guy used a 5000MCD so I think that's what I'll be going with. For climate control and gauges cluster, I dunno, I want them to be nice and bright but not annoying when driving at night, so probably pretty close to stock brightness.

now before you yell at me, yes, I did look in the sticky, but some of the links are dead, and some aren't really how-to's so much as "hey, look what I did." so I came up with as much info as I could. I mostly want to know how many of each bulb I'll need so I can order the correct amount.

This post has been edited by 6strngs: Oct 24, 2006 - 11:58 PM

[6strngs]

Thank you for the how-to.

anyway, spent some more time looking. at stuff, and decided that this is how I want my gauges to look:


I dunno what gauges those are, but I love them. so, question, do those gauges come painted a certain way so that the KPH illuminates in red no matter what color bulb is behind them? if so, is it same for the mph? I want my gauges like that, blue and red. maybe take it a step further like this: except with blue instead of red for the needles/milage.


as for the climate control, I think that doing it the way I said originally, that is blue backlight w/ red indicator lights, will be fairly difficult. if I do just the three backlight LED's with blue, will it look like this: or will the little indicator lights still light up green? if they'll still be green, would it be just as much work to make them red as would be to make them blue?

that's all the questions I have for now. more later I'm sure, lol. oh wait, one more, anybody know where I can get the reverse-glow gauges at the top? the ones I posted originally are the only black-faced gauges I could find for our celica, but then I saw those and I think they look better.