ok, first things first! i take no responsibility if you mess your s**t up in anyway!
i have been searching around on how to do this and everyone who did it either didnt have pictures or just completely sucked ass. so i did a better one. i also want to thank Noealadams and Genuine Rolla for helping me out and searching for other DIY's on this topic. Thanks Guys!
sorry for the terrible pictures, its a phone camera...
lets get started
Materials:
Small Needles nose pliers
E.Tape
screw driver
red led assembly from radio shack # 276-270 (resistor built in)
line tap
16 gauge wire- 15ft. or so
microsoft word
scissors
tape
sharpie
disposable cutting board at walmart...or thin plastic of any color
exacto knife
and some common sense
step one:
take you cluster out and take it apart. if you cant do this already, dont even try this DIY. take it apart so it looks like this.
once its apart, take your bezel that has all the light figurs and look at where you are going to mount your led light... i did mine here.
step 2:
once you got a good place for it remove this...
cut out the spot you are looking to mount your led in, just as shown above like i did. be super careful cause this piece is very fragile. take your time!
since i had a carbon fiber bezel from honda i went ahead and cut out the cruise control too. like so
step 3:
once you have your holes cut out, its time to do the coloring to it. i bought a disposable cutting board from walmart, they come in red as well, and i cut a small piece from it. you can really use any kind of thin plastic you want.
you want to cut enough just to cover the whole you cut out...like so
step 4:
once that piece is good in size, its time to print VTEC. print VTEC on normal paper from your computer with the 10 size font and ariels bold as the font. print a few cause you may mess up on this next part.
step :5
trace the plastic piece you just cut, in my situation the green piece, around the VTEC. cut out the vtec but a litt on the inside of the tracing.like this
once you have that done and in good size, its time to tape it. hold the VTEC in place where you want it and put a layer of tape sandwiching the VTEC in between the tape and plastic. like this...
cut the excess tape off from the plastic around the edges.
step 6:
once thats done, place the vtec in position....
and place this part over it and snap it back into the back of the panel.
it should look something like this once its all back together.
once its like that place some tape ove the edges to keep it down and to keep the VTEC from moving.
here is the end result of the vtec symbol...
now that you have that done, its time for the wiring.
step 7:
i like the led i used because it had a nut for mounting and it fit perfect in the hole for the light bulb. i recommend this led! here is the led...
mount it in the hole and tighten down the locking nut...like this:
once thats in splice to wires about 5ft. and length to the LED. for this LED the ground wire was the black wire. and the red wire was the ECU wire. once i had the wires connected, i marked with a sharpie the red wire that was spliced to the black wire. it makes things easier to find when your connecting all this crap.
after all the wires are spliced, install the cluster and feed the wires back to the right side of th paasenger panel near the right foot, where the ECU is.
Step 8:
remove the ecu panel and remove this clamp/zip tie, dont cut the zip tie, just free it from it position. it helps to find the wire you need.
once you have that off, find the green wire with a yellow solid stripe. NOT a green wire with a solid yellow stripe WITH silver markings...this one is your fuel pump. you may have to cut off the black tape holding the wires together. once you found the right wire use the line tap and tap the ecu wire with the red wire from the led...like this...
you must be certain the wire you tap to the ecu is not the ground wire(the black wire)
-its also a good idea to get the red wire(16gauge) pre spliced, remove a bit of the rubber from the wire to help tap the line) i had a problem with this and had to cut some off to make a connection in the tap.
once you have that tapped. ground the black wire. i did mine on the bolt that holds the glove box in.
try it out and see when your VTEC light kicks in before you hide all your wires. let the car warm up and test run it. if it doesnt work, you didnt tap the ecu and red wire to the led right. its most likely the red wire didnt make a connection in the tap, just make sure the tap has a connection to the ecu and red wire. if all is good, hide your crap and put every back together.
here is a bad look at what it looks like...
again, sorry for the terrible pictures but it gives the basic ideas on how to do this.
my VTEC kicks in about 5700 RPMS...wierd.
i have been searching around on how to do this and everyone who did it either didnt have pictures or just completely sucked ass. so i did a better one. i also want to thank Noealadams and Genuine Rolla for helping me out and searching for other DIY's on this topic. Thanks Guys!
sorry for the terrible pictures, its a phone camera...
lets get started
Materials:
Small Needles nose pliers
E.Tape
screw driver
red led assembly from radio shack # 276-270 (resistor built in)
line tap
16 gauge wire- 15ft. or so
microsoft word
scissors
tape
sharpie
disposable cutting board at walmart...or thin plastic of any color
exacto knife
and some common sense
step one:
take you cluster out and take it apart. if you cant do this already, dont even try this DIY. take it apart so it looks like this.
once its apart, take your bezel that has all the light figurs and look at where you are going to mount your led light... i did mine here.
step 2:
once you got a good place for it remove this...
cut out the spot you are looking to mount your led in, just as shown above like i did. be super careful cause this piece is very fragile. take your time!
since i had a carbon fiber bezel from honda i went ahead and cut out the cruise control too. like so
step 3:
once you have your holes cut out, its time to do the coloring to it. i bought a disposable cutting board from walmart, they come in red as well, and i cut a small piece from it. you can really use any kind of thin plastic you want.
you want to cut enough just to cover the whole you cut out...like so
step 4:
once that piece is good in size, its time to print VTEC. print VTEC on normal paper from your computer with the 10 size font and ariels bold as the font. print a few cause you may mess up on this next part.
step :5
trace the plastic piece you just cut, in my situation the green piece, around the VTEC. cut out the vtec but a litt on the inside of the tracing.like this
once you have that done and in good size, its time to tape it. hold the VTEC in place where you want it and put a layer of tape sandwiching the VTEC in between the tape and plastic. like this...
cut the excess tape off from the plastic around the edges.
step 6:
once thats done, place the vtec in position....
and place this part over it and snap it back into the back of the panel.
it should look something like this once its all back together.
once its like that place some tape ove the edges to keep it down and to keep the VTEC from moving.
here is the end result of the vtec symbol...
now that you have that done, its time for the wiring.
step 7:
i like the led i used because it had a nut for mounting and it fit perfect in the hole for the light bulb. i recommend this led! here is the led...
mount it in the hole and tighten down the locking nut...like this:
once thats in splice to wires about 5ft. and length to the LED. for this LED the ground wire was the black wire. and the red wire was the ECU wire. once i had the wires connected, i marked with a sharpie the red wire that was spliced to the black wire. it makes things easier to find when your connecting all this crap.
after all the wires are spliced, install the cluster and feed the wires back to the right side of th paasenger panel near the right foot, where the ECU is.
Step 8:
remove the ecu panel and remove this clamp/zip tie, dont cut the zip tie, just free it from it position. it helps to find the wire you need.
once you have that off, find the green wire with a yellow solid stripe. NOT a green wire with a solid yellow stripe WITH silver markings...this one is your fuel pump. you may have to cut off the black tape holding the wires together. once you found the right wire use the line tap and tap the ecu wire with the red wire from the led...like this...
you must be certain the wire you tap to the ecu is not the ground wire(the black wire)
-its also a good idea to get the red wire(16gauge) pre spliced, remove a bit of the rubber from the wire to help tap the line) i had a problem with this and had to cut some off to make a connection in the tap.
once you have that tapped. ground the black wire. i did mine on the bolt that holds the glove box in.
try it out and see when your VTEC light kicks in before you hide all your wires. let the car warm up and test run it. if it doesnt work, you didnt tap the ecu and red wire to the led right. its most likely the red wire didnt make a connection in the tap, just make sure the tap has a connection to the ecu and red wire. if all is good, hide your crap and put every back together.
here is a bad look at what it looks like...
again, sorry for the terrible pictures but it gives the basic ideas on how to do this.
my VTEC kicks in about 5700 RPMS...wierd.
. I've always been interested in one but I would eventually get so annoyed of a little light going on and off lol. I don't really wear my seatbelt so that seatbelt light is pretty much on all the time when I drive. I'm ready to take that bulb out 
. (Yeah I know no seatbelt = stupid but it's become a bad habit not to wear it).
