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

[Zimluura]

you've got it correct.

i got some neo-wedge and some triple 74 on order. no idea when i'm going to take out my cc unit again though, it looks pretty good right now, and it just started to get really cold outside.

for the cc_unit: the single num74 will totally fit. the triple one should be able to fit as well, and will almost certainly look nicer, but after you wire it into the base you might not be able to get it through the hole in the board. or perhaps you can, but you'll need to fiddle with it to get it though. or maybe it will get through there fine, but won't have enough clearance for the front of the cc-unit. there are lots of possible pitfalls. so i'd recemend getting 3x num74 regulars for it just in case.

as for the window switch, i used a mega powered lsdiodes led and, after bending it to the side a whole ton so it's not facing directly out of the transparent part of the switch, it's fine. getting a lower mcd led sounds good, but you can still make the higher one work out, and sooo much is personal preference.

[6strngs]

as for the window switch, i used a mega powered lsdiodes led and, after bending it to the side a whole ton so it's not facing directly out of the transparent part of the switch, it's fine. getting a lower mcd led sounds good, but you can still make the higher one work out, and sooo much is personal preference.

yeah, I think the stock is like that too.

anyway, I dunno when I'll be able to get around to actually doing any of this either. especially the gauges, since I can't even find those gauges yet...