My red needles light up very well but this is only because i have spent a lot of time on the cluster and you'll find details if you click below.

 

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?184096-Finally-Happy-with-my-Instrument-Cluster

 

Google images is littered with poorly lit 300ZX red needles compared to our modern daily drives, so i cannot help making work for myself after finding out you can buy blue needles and also with them some small smd blue boards that sit at the spindle, hoping the light strongly shoots down.

 

Next week then i'll be having a play about, i purchased blue because my interior is red and blue but you can buy red needles, so you can illuminate these with the red boards or even get white boards, or buy clear needles and light them up with red boards, or just buy the red boards to light up our oe needles,will the 'new' red needles be better at picking up on the light from the stock cluster illumination ? - you see there are a lot of options/possibilities that i will try to clarify/get across.

 

You can visit the German site below should you wish, i have on order 4 x 61mm and 2 x 31mm needles, 31mm is shorter than stock, may still work, may not but i have ordered 4 x 61mm because i have found out these can be cut down, giving me therefore the two shorter at 42mm or thereabouts for the fuel and temp gauges.

 

The stock red needles for the boost and oil cannot be replaced, my plan is not to touch unless it looks silly and i make them blue somehow, watch this space then :yes:.

 

http://www.blauertacho4u.de/stvzo/Tachonadeln/

The needles and blue smd boards arrived, initially i was disappointed in the daytime and thought scrap this idea but as darkness fell i rigged up again and am now at 50/50 whether to rip out my cluster because i flicked the lights on and i have tremendously full red needles.

 

The reason for blue boards supplied with this kit is for cars apparently with no illumination there, we zedexers have, so it will be a fiddle positioning these locally at the spindle but under the clear diffuser so that not to foul anywhere, i do not want the blue bleeding anywhere else as of course i want to keep the red dial back illumination.

 

Another problem i have early identified is that the kit's needles do not fit on the fuel and temp spindles, they're a tad too large so some tiny amount of adhesive, silicone i thought will be necessary to engage. The longer needles fit perfectly on the larger two dials, so we have a plus there.

 

Anyway, here's a quick bench simulated pic, i think i may be mad to proceed with this but i may not be able to resist the draw of having something a little different that may well look very nice and add to my red/blue theme or it might just die a death very quickly !!