anybody redone there cluster? autometer, vdo, dakota digital, etc etc etc. Any pics you can post? aftermarket gauges in factory bezel, custom made bezel, etc.
What size gauges will fit in the factory bezel without trimming? any?

 

your just talking about like replacing the speedo and stuff with aftermarket gauges in-place-of- right? not necessarily adding other gauges...i.e.oil temp, blah blah

 

I made these.

 

The pic was too big

 

go to www.photobucket.com and make an account then you can pist the pics, not just put up the thumbs of sized down pics.

BTW gauges look cool

 

yeah, thats what I meant, but I woudnt mind seeing creative placement of aux oil pressure and temp, etc

 

please tell me how you did those
and do you think the same technique would work for an overlay for the heater controls?

 

yeah really those look good. do they come out a bright red at night ?

 

yeh I did my tach as well.. was realy easy to do and look mint at night. check my sig

 

Yea I did the heater controls with the same pic. What I di was scan the original gauges and change all the fonts to custom fonts cut and past the image (by the way any image you want)
then transfer the image to a plotter file and again transfer the image to an ft9, just the fonts and then the out line of the gauges. I then take some plexie paint it black or any color. Finally, i run an engraving machine at work, so I set the cutter so it will only cut out the paint.
photoshop the image w/ the fonts and adhere it to the plexi.


please tell me how you did those
and do you think the same technique would work for an overlay for the heater controls?

 

here are some samples of stuff i'm working on.

 

yea it's Japanese a friend of mine wanted that font.

 

well, they do come out nice and red not to bright though. i am trying to get some red transparent plexieand some special paper to continue but there really isn't much interest in this type of work since most people would think it's ricy. Now the honda guys love the idea but the don't want to spend the money. I also try to use the original gauge faces and just remove the image on them and put my image. Another problem is finding images to put on the gauges to begine with. I only have one set of gauges to put an image on.
Finding an FB, FD, and an s4 w/ the gauge cluster is very dificult.

 

ok, so I can't use your method, LOL