really great work. wut all did u use?

 

actually, the one i saw was over the dash (the centervent). but your **** is just as tight. i've always said the center dash one was a good place for gauges. i never thought about where you put them. thats damn good work! please put some pics & diy instructions. i am pretty handy with tools, but for some reason i dont know how, where, or with what to start this off with.

thanks man!
hope to hear from you soon!

 

OK, i'm going to get some grub now, but I'll post up the first half of the write up in a little while. Also, about the a/f guage, if you reread my post you'll see I already have a wideband. The narrow band gauge wasn't supposed to even go in my car but my defi EGT gauge for some reason doesn't fit. I'm a moron sometimes and don't test fit everything. I could have grinded it out, but it was all done and painted and I didn't want to touch it.

The first half of the wirteup that i'll post is much more descriptive on the DIY part. The painting and **** I didn't talk about too much, but that's kinda the easy part I guess.

 

Nice job man>>>Now lets see it in the car..

 

OK, I know this is out of order, but here is the first half of the writeup I posted on another forum. This gives you a basic idea of how to do it. It's actually all pretty simple. Just a lot of time to sand everything to get a good finished product. Also, as someone mentioned before, that I should get a pic of it in the car.....Will do very soon. My race hatch is in storage right now, but I'm going to visit it soon to grab more dash pieces for my EGT and Wideband displays. OK, here is the first half of the writeup which is a little more detailed than the second half which is mainly finished product pics. If you have any ?'s about this ****, feel free to ask, and hopefully I'll answer them to the best of my knowledge. Remember, I'm pretty new to this too. In conclusion to everything........Don't be a *****, try it. It's actually pretty easy. Just be sure to take your time with it. You can't rush.


Dilemma: It's winter, I have some spare time, and can't really work on my car cuz it's not stored at my house. Also, my gauges pretty much just layed in the dash of my race hatch cuz I don't give a expletive about looks with that car. They were all over the place and I needed to do something about it. I've never glassed before, so my buddy helped me out. I gotta say, this **** is easy but time consuming for a good finished product. It's still in the works, but I have some pics of what we accomplished in a couple of hours/beers however you wanna gauge time.

Bare with me, these are ghetto camera phone pics, so the quality blows. The finished product will be taken with a good camera.


This was the first step. We cut a tomato paste can in half so we had a nice snug fit to drop the gauges (yes, these cans are perfect size). We then hot glued it to the angle we saw fit.


Now for the other one. This is taken from the backside of the bezel.


next we strectched a shirt to overlay the cans to form the mold we wanted and tacked it in place with hot glue. This will give us the form we need when we add resin.


What it looks like from the backside.


This pic was taken as we were adding the resin and laying fiberglass mat. I don't know too much about this **** but apparently the mat is much better to work with than the cloth **** that places sell. It looks messy but it'll all clean up.



Letting the first coat of resin and mat dry up.



This is after we added a second coat. still looks messy, dremel is our friend later.



This pic is after about 10 mins with a dremel. You can definately see some spots where the hot glue was that still need to be drilled out and have some more resin put in, but it's taking form.



Last pic I have for the night. Grabbed a random gauge laying around to test fit. Very nice, not bad for a few hours work. Still needs a lot of sanding and body filler then some spot putty. After that the paint will go on. I'll keep this updated, should be done before the end of the week if I can get to it.



Cliff notes: never worked w/glass, but it's pretty easy. Like how it's coming along so far. Look at the pictures. Pics of final product will be up soon enough.

 

looks like it turned out really well

 

look good

 

DUDE...freaking MASS PRODUCE THESE! I would love one...

 

hottt

 

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I'm actually thinking about it.....Just pick up a used one from a junkyard, make another, then have someone send me money plus their bezel. If I did do this, I probably wouldn't do the paintwork though. Just a good coat of primer wetsanded like a ****, then it's up to you what you want to paint it. I'd prolly make these for people for a touch under a hundo if someone really wanted. It was seriously about 10 - 15 hours of work for this. I'm sure I could prolly do it faster, but I'm new at it. My buddy does want to get into doing **** like this for people to make a little extra loot on the side to pay for other projects. I dunno, pm me then I guess if you want one. (Note to Moderators: I'm not trying to advertise on here.....yet...please go easy on moderating as I don't know your advertising policy, shoot me a pm) If you did do this, I would reccomend doing one of two things. First being the easiest. Buy a can of tomato paste and cut it in half and see if your gauges fit (I wouldn't want any fitment complaints). If they do, great. If not, send me the gauges and I'll make a mold that will fit. Secondly, send me the gauges from the start, and I can do it that way too.