Custom gauge pics

Finally got around ta takin a pic of the gauges i made.. So, to all who requested...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/146920gauges1.jpg

the red turned out a little brighter than I had planned

I like. I like. Yeah its a bit too bright of a red. But its still nice. Whered you "make" that?

on my kitchen table! (had a little help from a local automotive decal company)

Thats pretty sweet. Is it all aligned and what not? So that you dont think your going 100 when you are actually going 80. :lol: im just playing. Looks really nice though.

actually.. I did throw them all off quite a bit! It was a MAJOR PITA to get them re-calibrated..

i like, how did you make them red like that?

I took my original gauge faces off, brought em to Sharp AutoTrim and got them to copy them onto decal paper and change the colors to whatever I decided..
Then I got a sheet of 1mm clear plastic, traced my gauge face shapes out on it and cut them out, Then I cut out the decals and stuck em' on the plastic and put them in in place of my original faces..

Although it was much much more difficult!

actually.. I did throw them all off quite a bit! It was a MAJOR PITA to get them re-calibrated..

I could imagine. Thats probably why ricers are so proud of their stickers, because they are actually straight, as if anyone cared. :lol2: :lol:

I could imagine. Thats probably why ricers are so proud of their stickers, because they are actually straight, as if anyone cared. :lol2: :lol:

i don get it..lol are you makin' fun of me??

impressive, got any night photos with them lit up?

lol no I wasnt making fun of you. I was dawgin on ricers. How they are all proud of their damn stickers, I know its a bitch to put them on if they do it themselves which I highly doubt. But it is something to be proud of if you do it. But Stickers are gay so their proud of, well, nothing special. You my friend should be proud of your project though.

lol thanx

no geno I dont right now.. Thats one of the things I was havin problems with but wee got it all worked out..

Theres Zenon bulbs behind the cluster so the red doesnt light up but the white lettering lights up white (with a bit of blue in it)

that's what i need
wanna make another set of faces and sell em to me?

youve got the older style.. they're completly different.. Ide be back to square one

his is a 91 its the same as yours but his registers 110.

lol no I wasnt making fun of you. I was dawgin on ricers. How they are all proud of their damn stickers, I know its a bitch to put them on if they do it themselves which I highly doubt. But it is something to be proud of if you do it. But Stickers are gay so their proud of, well, nothing special. You my friend should be proud of your project though.

although i DO drive a toyota (my supra is NOT a ricer).. I share your hatred for decals! But it was my only option short of air brushing (LOTSA $$$) and you' never tell it was a decal..

hey make me some knight rider guages..........

Oh, i thought he hadda older one.. yeah mines in KPH.. god damn metric system

lol.. that sounds a hell of a lot more complicated.. But it could be done! *thinking*

ah damn.. the old ladys bitchin for me to take her to Taco Time..lol be back later

get me a couple of chaloupas while your there, you wire me the food and ill wire you the money

damone....way to be a postwhore.

join the club

damone....way to be a postwhore.

thats a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black dont ya think??

hahahahaha......


its a stainless steel pot. hah!

not if i powder coat it black!!

it wont be a pot no more when i take my sledge to it!!!

you're like my friend basil: hammer first, find solution later...

ugh always with the sledge

lmao... the sledge is broken tho... dont ask how... so if i wanna do any sledging i gotta buy a new one

damone....way to be a postwhore.

Comin from a guy who started 4 months after me and has 600 more posts than I do

lmao... the sledge is broken tho... dont ask how... so if i wanna do any sledging i gotta buy a new one
the sledge prolly pissed you off and you smashed it with an even bigger sledge.

when will we learn, sledging doesnt solve anything, it just leads to more sledging *tear*...

Hi...my name is Ridge...im a sledgeaholic.

Hiiiiiiiiii Riiiiiiiidge

maybe we should have an intervention...

just duct tape your sledge back together.. duct tape fixes everything..

but what happens when the duct tape breaks??

sledge it

a viscous cycle...

fuckers...

o and by the way the handle was cracked and that was duct taped.. lol and it held up good....

best of both worlds.

see.. duct tape kicks everything's ass.. and if it doesnt, sledge it..

lmao..

Finally got around ta takin a pic of the gauges i made.. So, to all who requested...

http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/146920gauges1.jpg

the red turned out a little brighter than I had planned


So how much will you charge me to do this again for my car (with me installing it, of course)? Different colors though.

i completely forgot about the sweet guages.. i guess i got caught up in the sledging and duct tape.. glad im not the only person that thinks this way, everyone around here thinks im nuts..

Now I really hope that Supra didn't get sledged and you're playing it off as an accident...

yeah we got a little off topic on this one...

damn sweet man, i thought about doin that to my ol RS cuz its black and red, with the red on the interior, but i never went all the way through with it. very nicely executed if i may say so.

thanx..

It was a BIG PITA though.. If your thinkin about doin it.. Heres all the problems I encountered...

first - getting the gauge decal cut out perfectly and laying it down on the plastic in perfect position, than getting it to line up the same as the old ones

second- The clear plastic I used was too thick.. my cluster wouldnt re-assemble properly and the needles were pressed tight against the gauge so they wouldnt move..

third - got thin (1mm) plastic and new gauge sheet.. Put them all in, looked good until night time when the lights were on... The light come through everywhere so you could see the shadows from the gauge motors and everything else behind the cluster.. the red also looked like a brown/orange with the light coming through.. I went back to Sharp Auto trim and we come up with a solution.. Instead of just making the decal red with white lettering, first they made the gauges black, then put the red over top.. then the gauges were brown.. no good.. So they tried black, than white, Than the red.. Still looked like shit..

FINALLY.. They printed the decals with red, than over them with red 2 more times... This solved that problem.. But by then my gauges were apart for so long I forgot where all the needles were when I took them off, and had to start the car a couple times without the cluster.. so ALL of my gauges were completly inaccurate..

BUt in the end I do agree they do look nice and are Definatly one of a kind..

So there are a few tips if your interested..

lol, well not any time soon, but perhaps in the future, although i do have the earlier guage cluster, so i dunno if it would work, but ill have to investigate that.

aye ridge, lemme get that supra up off you : )

lol.... come get it from the insurance company

daMn them, go take the eng and the turbo wing..i'll buy em from u >=)

lol.. im too lazy

i wouldnt mind the 1JZ, that and the interior!