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jones94 10-14-06 01:11 AM

replacing oem gauges????
 
i am thinking of replacing the stock oil pressure and water temp gauges with two defi gauges. can i do this without running into many problems? i am going to mount three other defi guages on the a-pillar and would like to use the wasted space of the two meaningless oem gauges. does it look funny with two aftermarket gauges in the oem cluster(even though the black face defi's match very closely)?

sgi02 10-14-06 01:38 AM

This might help you...

http://www.maxcooper.com/rx7/how-to/...ges/index.html

jones94 10-14-06 10:57 AM

thanks i was trying to find that site.
anyone ever try it with any other brand of gauges?

R_PROWESS 10-14-06 11:05 AM

ahh man but the stock gauges are tight lookin lol

jones94 10-14-06 11:12 AM

too bad they are useless...

puffxy 10-14-06 12:01 PM

I'm in the process of doing the same thing, but i'm waiting for my gauges.. i test fitted it with another 52mm gauge and it looks like it should be okay with some filing/sanding of parts of the stock gauge housing, it doesn't actually look like too much of an issue..

jones94 10-14-06 12:23 PM

let me know how it turns out.
would love to see some pics once you finish it.

atihun 10-14-06 03:22 PM

Here's what the Defi looks like mounted in the stock locations:

http://www.atihun.com/pictures/rebuild/pod.jpg

The Defi's come with senders that replace the stock ones. There's no bad effects of removing the stock ones because they send the signal to the dash, not to the computer.

Hope that helps.

Attila

puffxy 10-14-06 03:56 PM

^ don't the defi links light up green and totally clash with the stock cluster? that's what i'm trying to avoid.. i'm picky :(

edit: it is sweet though :cool:

atihun 10-14-06 04:28 PM

I changed it all to green. :D

Juan 10-14-06 05:35 PM

how about using defi-d gauges? they light up an amber color thats close to stock. Theyre a bit on the orange side but its possibly the closest color you'll get to match the dash.

silverTRD 10-14-06 06:12 PM

looks good. i wish i could do that with all my gauges!

puffxy 10-15-06 12:44 AM


Originally Posted by atihun
I changed it all to green. :D

nite pics? :cool:

65Imp 10-15-06 12:48 AM

Yeah, I want to see them lit up too!
Also I want to see if the rest of the cluster still works ;)

the_glass_man 10-16-06 10:13 PM

We demand night pictures! Did you sand off the orange film and go with green LED's? How hard would it be to use amber LED's in the Defi's to match the stock gauges?

Noxlupus 11-11-06 08:07 PM

Bumps...
Atihun do you have any pictures of the cluster installed and gauges functioning?


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