Mod Idea... (its neons)

[pomme]

I know neons aren't everyones things... and they aren't normally my thing... but i did dabble in them with my old car. Not just around lighting up the car like a christmas tree, something a little different...

What i did in my old car was blue neon in the footwells... the twist however was for them to turn red when the revs went above 4000 rpm. That was a pretty cool thing, its was quite fun to go on spirited drives... and i've never saw it before, everyone was quite stunned when they switched colours.

Now i have my polo... i wasn't really that intrested in neons, i had my bit of fun before, and after a while, never really turned them on, so the idea never entered my head... until tonight.

I thought instead of switching on a set rpm... i could get them to switch at a certain boost level...

Just wondering what anyone thoughts were, and maybe ideas on implemenation.

In the rpm change it was a case of building a shift light and getting it to switch a relay from blue to red... in the case some sort of pressure switch.

Another idea i am toying with is to get not only the neons to switch, but maybe the dash lights...

[BlackVr6ix]

hobbs switch will do that, just get the correct one for the level of boost you want the neons to come on.

[gpk_gti]

have you got the chromies yet??? hahahaha

[SoVeReIgN]

Love the idea - I saw a corolla Sportivo recently that had the dash lights turn from blue to red when it hit lift (over 6000ish rpm) and it looked awesome.

Only problem with the polo is it hits boost early and drops off through the rev range so you'll look a bit silly when they come on at 2000rpm and turn off at 5000rpm when you continue on to 7000.

[pomme]

have you got the chromies yet??? hahahaha

Lol... yea its kind of like that... but i'm not THAT bad

Love the idea - I saw a corolla Sportivo recently that had the dash lights turn from blue to red when it hit lift (over 6000ish rpm) and it looked awesome.

Only problem with the polo is it hits boost early and drops off through the rev range so you'll look a bit silly when they come on at 2000rpm and turn off at 5000rpm when you continue on to 7000.

So maybe not off boost... rpm again.

Has anyone had any experience messing with dash lights in the polo. I'm guessing it would be all integrated and would require large about of soldering etc, which i don't think i'd be prepared to do just yet.

[gpk_gti]

dont think its soldering,more like changing the globes????which are not that hard....

[DubSteve]

dont think its soldering,more like changing the globes????which are not that hard....

You would have to do something to make it change. You can get those audio decks that change different lights n:

[BlackVr6ix]

you could repalace the whole lot with RGB led's and use a 2 stage shift light setup to change from blue (idle) to green(1500rpm-5000rpm) to red(5000rpm+).

[pomme]

you could repalace the whole lot with RGB led's and use a 2 stage shift light setup to change from blue (idle) to green(1500rpm-5000rpm) to red(5000rpm+).

Yes that was what i had in mind... and that would require soldering and hacking. green blue red i think though... i do love the blue.

I'm not sure if the dial would be very visable in other colours.

[pomme]

Does the normal polo have the same dash as a polo gti?

I would like to try and get a wrecked polo dash to experiment with... if all polos are alike... that should be an easy task.