Extent

Well I finally got back the pictures and got my scanner working so here is it all.

heres the guage as I got it out of the box



here's how much I had to cut off it to make it fit. I just cut the whole side down almost flush with the guage face. Later I cleaned it up better and painted over the edges black so they werent as visible.



I didn't have a 'teg harness for the cluster so I made my own of sorts. I soldered leads to the pads of the 'teg cluster and wired them to two plugs. these I matched the wiring of the civic harness so I could just cut in different plugs on the civic side and go right on.



and here's what the harness looked like. I wanted to splice it so if I ever decided to go back to a civic guage cluster I could just plug it in and go, so now my car is dual compatable after I had everything checked out and working I went back and soldered each of the wires, make sure you do this!!!



Here is the new cluster with all the wires plugged in and sitting on the steering wheel



the cluster dosent fit in the factory holes, but it does sit just fine between the two verticle bars that the old cluster mounts to. originally I was going to make an adaptor plate to go on either end so I could screw it on, but I just ziptied the sucker in place and it sits just fine, and any looseness that was left is gotten rid of by the front dash piece which pushes it firmly back.

And now lets look at the final product ...





And here is a quickie before and after pic



There you are!

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other notes: recently I went back and fixed it all up so it fit better in the dash, it sits a little higher now so the top portion of the cut lip is only visible in the very corners of the dash. I didn't bother with the cover plastic, I don't mis it one bit at all really.

JDMRob

Thats nice u must be pretty good at wiring..........keep up the good work

Lei Siew Long

for effort and the hardwork.

imo, the fact that you can see the top part of the cluster where it was cut, ruins it. otherwise, it's decent.

Extent

Ya it was really ugly, but I went back and pushed the cluster up, and it looks alot better now, I just dont have any new pics of it, these are like 3 months old.

HuskerHybrid

do you mind posting the new pics? i have a ls cluster and am afraid to even begin. thanks

Extent

I actually dont have any at all, I've been meaning to take some but just havent gotten around to it, it would be more than a week before I could get any new ones posted

eg6ajk

good stuff

here are some pics of cluster done by someone here on board, he makes them for $120

dom93hatch

^^^

The guy that makes those clusters... Does he also adjust the odometer to match your car's mileage?

Tofurky

who does those? so he charges $120 to do it? and everyting works fine?

redcxhatch

ya who makes those?

HuskerHybrid

can anyone tell me how he got the glass to fit on there? which glass he used civic/integra? etc...

Black_eh2

it nice but doesnt look clean that's one downfall but it's someting different

oldB18EF

im pretty sure the guy who makes those cluster's name is acura_typer

skunk2unerz

daym a few days too late on the post. I try to do one a few nights ago and thought i had to take out the front panel thenbroke the face plate of the cluster. No its no good w/o the panel.

714phil

that thing is cool

racecarpete

he does it for 130 + the cost of the cluster but he uses your stock cluster and guts it and puts the teg guts in the stock cluster and after a little bondo magic and some paint you get a factory looking cluster.

Extent

well like I said that was just a temp fitting. after I had all that I had to go back in and solder everything and fit it to the dash so you dont see the cut edge. the reason you see that top is because It's not fastened to anything and is just resting on the top of the steering column behind the dash. I'll get my pics of the final installed one soon.

acura_typer's clusters are nice, but I just really disliked the plasticy bondo on the bezel and the front plastic not fitting, with the odometer reset button hole and all that, I think it looks cleaner without the plastic. but if you want a one up no mod swap, that's the best thing for ya

GSR

nice

HuskerHybrid

so to clarify is it the civic clear cover or the integra one?

racecarpete

it is a civic shell (back and front clear plastic) with integra internals.

chameleon

wow that modded one looks cool, just that hole is the only downfall.. but still phatty!

LOSERboy

That is a SWEET setup!! Doing this to a itr cluster would be too cool!

HuskerHybrid

hey thanks for the reply! that helps out a lot! one question, i believe it was you who had the tight silver civic pic in the other post... can i ask you what steering wheel that is? it's hot.

Mikerosoft

Has anyone attempted to switch the teg internals into the eg cluster?! In my opinion I think it looks really good! (It could almost past for stock if they didn't know what to look for.) I was just wondering if it is really as hard as everyone makes it seem?! Also, would it be possible to use the teg plastic and just cut it to fit the eg housing?! That way you wouldn't be left with that nast hole?! Just an idea! I'd love to hear some more feedback on this idea!
-M!ke

mycivicstoo(s)low

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mikerosoft &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Has anyone attempted to switch the teg internals into the eg cluster?! In my opinion I think it looks really good! (It could almost past for stock if they didn't know what to look for.) I was just wondering if it is really as hard as everyone makes it seem?! Also, would it be possible to use the teg plastic and just cut it to fit the eg housing?! That way you wouldn't be left with that nast hole?! Just an idea! I'd love to hear some more feedback on this idea!
-M!ke</TD></TR></TABLE>Holy ****! A new member actually searched before posting! This is amazing, somebody help this guy out, he deserves it.