How To Make Custom Guage Faces

- What up peepz ? i see some people makin their own custom guage faces from time to time and i never see the colors that i want for mine. so i wanna try makin my own maybe ! So does anyone know HOW to make em ? If so jus leave yer info here ! for me an everyone else interested ~ :bloated:

Hey... here's a set of gauges I found online a while ago. I made several changes to them but left the color alone. Changing the color wouldn't take much effort... give or take 15 minutes in photoshop to do a really good job.

I printed them out on photo paper (the Matte side). The toughest part of doing it was cutting them out to perfection, primarily the circles..

http://64.180.254.77:8080/my%20car/Gauges/Gauges-Daytime_cropped.JPG

http://64.180.254.77:8080/my%20car/Gauges/Gauges-Nighttime_cropped.JPG

--> Download http://64.180.254.77:8080/my%20car/Gauges/gauges.zip

I made some, but never printed them or anything... I was going to take them to a sign shop and have them printed on vinyl and laser cut... I like the stock ones better though... maybe I'll do something a little bit more subtle in the future though...

Speedometer... Going to have to re-do it in MPH though...
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/891105SmNewSpeedo01.jpg

Tach...
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/814086SmNewTach01.jpg

Temp/Fuel Guages...
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/543639SmNewGas01.jpg

For the 4G civics, you can download some guage faces from BurgerBoy's website. That's what I did and then just manipulated them using photoshop:

http://burgerboy.sinfree.net/gauges.html

Are 4th Gen Civic And 1990 Crx Si Gauges the same? or like can i use this print outs for my crx or no? thanks alot...

- Cool deal guyz - thanks for the help/tips - ima try that soon - heres one i just manipulated, cept i accidently made an extra 6 in the RPM at the very end. But i'll jus fix it really quik.
but thanks again !

just remember if you change the spacing on the speedo to 200 like the one above, then you will have to alter how the needle swings, cuz at 60 which is almost straight up on a regular dash, you'd be going 100 on that speedo.

i like it!!

BUT

my speedo is in mph.., anyone fancy converting it for me (i aint good wi paintshop etc :rolleyes: )

0-8000rpm 0-150mph

cheers

Those speedo are all in km/h so no needle altering will need to be done to then. They should work in any gauge that has the same range of speed and rpms.

Did a google search and came up with this

120 Miles = 193.12128 Kilometers
150 Miles = 241.4016 Kilometers

200 Kilometers = 124.274238 Miles
250 Kilometers = 155.342798 Miles

rpms = rpms, no conversion needed there.

dont the stock ones have both MPH and KPH speeds? if they do, couldnt you just swap the numbers there?!

how do you light them up?? am I dumb?haha:D

Originally posted by toontowncivic
how do you light them up?? am I dumb?haha:D

Well, I kinda thought about that a bit... you'd get illumination from the top bulbs in the guage cluster, but you wouldn't really get any back-lighting.

What I was planning was to remove the original guage faces somehow, and put the new ones in so that they would be backlit.

Originally posted by ci5ic


Well, I kinda thought about that a bit... you'd get illumination from the top bulbs in the guage cluster, but you wouldn't really get any back-lighting.

What I was planning was to remove the original guage faces somehow, and put the new ones in so that they would be backlit.

use paint thinner to get rid of the old gauge faces.... i found it out the hard way :(:rolleyes: but.... now i got new gauges with a tach! :D hehe so everything worked out

I'm really interested in doing this, anyone have them for the DX? how do you get in side of their to mess with them?

Do you have any of the guages above layed out with MPH?

Originally posted by crxlvr
just remember if you change the spacing on the speedo to 200 like the one above, then you will have to alter how the needle swings, cuz at 60 which is almost straight up on a regular dash, you'd be going 100 on that speedo. He made them for KPH, not MPH.