@bootyluvr looks like im gonna be back in town around mothers day, and if the weathers nice plan on bringing the porsche up to cars and coffee on the 7th
you want the 9006 kit, its to connect up to the connectors in your car. The hid bulb base may be h1 but its got standard aftermarket connectors (amp) to hook up to the ballast.
Definitely hit up the state schools, RPI was expensive and maybe not worth the expense for what you end up with, cant speak to the other private institutions
If youre interested in going into an automotive field on the engineering or design side then you should look for an automotive engineering program. Mechanical engineering has become a bit of a jack of all engineering degree, you learn enough to mostly understand any other specialty but not...
if you used high power cree LEDs they often need current regulation more than voltage regulation, also remember your cars electrical system is at 14v when the engine is running, 12v at rest. If you picked resistors for absolute max output at 12v you could have been overdriving them at 14v
i did, but it turned out that not all LX clusters were created equal, some could take the input and others couldnt.
@Nix since you already pulled the gauge apart, you could desolder the actual display from the board and mount the display where you want it, run the 8 or so wires from the board...