do you have to have some kind of sweet scanner to do this? And if you print them on regular paper, how does the light shine thru and night? I wanna see some installed pics too. I already have MacEwen's on my car, but I would like to know how for when I upgrade to a different speedo or maybe a different car.

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91 rs, convertible, K&N, Edelbrock open element cleaner, 3.73, B&M mega-shifter, goodmark cowl-induction hood,tinted windows,MacEwen Overlays
Coming soon......"Custom" non-red material.

 

I just used the guages Ray87Z provided and mixed them with some pictures that I already had using Paint Shop Pro. It's really not that hard. I do have a nice SCSI scanner but I don't have the inlays. I plan on junkyard hunting pretty soon that way I can find the different speedo and tach gauges everybody needs.

 

Hey Jim91rs, if you look closely at your console, the light doesnt shine through ur guages, it illuminates around the cluster. And yeah, I would like to see them also.

www.91HybridZ28.homestead.com/91HybridZ.com

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SS 17x9.5 wheels,
HOTCHKIS 1"drop springs,
HOTCHKIS tower brace,
Bilstein struts and shocks,
K&N filters,
MSD 6A,
MSD 8.5mm Wires,
MSD Cap & Rotor,
Hypertech airfoil,
SLP intake runner (plennum not ported yet, soon)
High flow cats,
SPOHN panhard bar, lower control arms, and subframe connectors,
Baer front track system,
3" Flowmaster Exhaust System,
2100 Stall High Performance Torque Converter,
300 watt sound system,
and soon to come...ZZ4 crate motor...hopefully.

 

the light does shine through my macewen overlays though. The reason I am really asking is because I think I want to make some for my brother's 95 ta.

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91 rs, convertible, K&N, Edelbrock open element cleaner, 3.73, B&M mega-shifter, goodmark cowl-induction hood,tinted windows,MacEwen Overlays
Coming soon......"Custom" non-red material.

 

I would like to join the 85 MPH speedo support group Does anyone have acess to these? and I can't get the link from the original post to work, anyone got that file, or a different one? Thanks

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87Camaro RS
305 carb.
Just got it so working on mods

 

Hey Soulbounder, do you have the pic of the bird off the back of a Firebird? I am trying to find the one between the tail lights, but am having some trouble. Thanks, if you can get it.

 

This is the only one I have for now. I can change the colors smoothly and perfectly, the only bad thing about that is it takes me a long time. I zoom in about 20 times and pixel match every color.

 

The link to the file in the original post is still working for me. The site may have been down temporarily or something...

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Ray87Z
-Vortec headed 350.
86 IROC w/ a cammed 305 TPI.
Formerly Ray86IROC.
www.inter-scape.com/Ray

 

HybridZ, my macewen guages are a thick vinyl like material, it does not have adhesive backing, just adhesive tape on the corners. I am incredibly impressed with the quality of both macewen and the overlays. I would still like to know how to make my own set so I will try on my bent set of macewen overlays that I have.

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91 rs, convertible, K&N, Edelbrock open element cleaner, 3.73, B&M mega-shifter, goodmark cowl-induction hood,tinted windows,MacEwen Overlays
Coming soon......"Custom" non-red material.

 

Oh ok, thanks for correcting me. But I was referring to the stock guages. I don't think the light shines through the guage, or does it? I had the conception that on the stock guage, the light shines around the instrument cluster, therefore believed that the Macewen ones were the same concept. I would have bought the white face guages but I bought a 5" carbon fiber monster tach for my car. Everything including the lights match my interior so now i kinda regret buying cause i want the overlays now. but who knows, i might change my mind.

later

www.91HybridZ28.homestead.com/91HybridZ.html

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SS 17x9.5 wheels,
HOTCHKIS 1"drop springs,
HOTCHKIS tower brace,
Bilstein struts and shocks,
K&N filters,
MSD 6A,
MSD 8.5mm Wires,
MSD Cap & Rotor,
Hypertech airfoil,
SLP intake runner (plennum not ported yet, soon)
High flow cats,
SPOHN panhard bar, lower control arms, and subframe connectors,
Baer front track system,
3" Flowmaster Exhaust System,
2100 Stall High Performance Torque Converter,
300 watt sound system,
and soon to come...ZZ4 crate motor...hopefully.

 

To whoever made the white faced gauge with the firebird(screaming chicken) symbol in the middle, that is one kick @ss gauge. I think that you should talk with the McEwen company. Maybe you can try and get them to produce gauges like that with the emblem off of it, and have some kind of group purchase. I think you should try and make a little money off of them. They look great, but I want them made out of the real material, and not printer paper. I need new gauges for my '83 TA, and those gauges are the nicest I have ever seen. I think you should definitely try and get them to produce gauges with the emblem on it, and make a little money for yourself. Dont forget all of your friends here at thirdgen.org...maybe you can get a discount or group purchase off of your design. If not, then I guess I will have to try and make my own. Nice work, You did a better job than the pro's.

 

Ray,

I was just curious if you ever got the pics of these homemade gauge faces developed. I would really like to see them installed.

Thanks
Victor

 

Damn yeah I have the 85MPH speedo, coupled with the pos non backlighting gauges with the pathetic globe down the bottom...boy.....it annoys me

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1982 Camaro Z28
305 Carburated
4-speed Muncie
Some other stuff I haven't figured out yet
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ICQ# : 18562788
gibsandwich@hotmail.com

 

To all that liked my designs: they were alright as long as you didn't actually need to drive the car. They were not fuctional overlays, just nice to look at. Speedometer and odometer would have affected it. The screaming chicken could be used as is, but not the iroc one. Maybe one I get some free time I'll tinker with the idea again.

 

Hey, Jer82Z28, It's VTEC, not VTECH. Not that it makes a difference, though, VORTEC is way better anyway.

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Ludicrous Speed GO!!!

Hey, everyone come to the Vicksburg Old Car Show (in Michigan) next year, and hold it up for all the Thirdgen owners out there.
e-mail me for directions, dates, etc.

[This message has been edited by MartyMcFly (edited August 08, 2001).]

 

het RAY you got an image for the oil pressure guage?

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Blue 1989 IROC Z28

 

i just got in on this DIY gauge thing, none of the pics work anymore. i am intersted in the 120 firebird and V8 5500 redline tach. thanks. lil j

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Wide Open Till You See God...Then Brake

 

Did anyone ever get guages scanned for the 92 Rs



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Jeff
92 Camaro V6, mods: K&N, modified air box, JET chip 2,Dynomax Cat & Cat Back Systemwww.camarors.4t.com

 

Ya there at the following address.

<a href ="http://kjrockz.freeservers.com">Click Here</a>

 

The oil pressure gauge is on the tach highhat... Is it a seperate gauge on newer cars?

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Ray87Z
-Vortec headed 350.
86 IROC w/ a cammed 305 TPI.
Formerly Ray86IROC.
www.inter-scape.com/Ray

 

The guages from the 90-92 are different from the eariler models.

Eariler Model

<img src ="http://members.aol.com/rmacewen1/1987IROCCluster1.JPG">

Later Model

<img src ="http://members.aol.com/macewen001/RSleft.JPG"><img src ="http://members.aol.com/macewen001/RSright.JPG">
All Pictures are borrowed from Macewen Motorsports, if there is any problem let me know and I will remove them.



Kj

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~cacroxton...stomspeedo.jpg

I changed it around, What do you think?

 

Not too key on the rainbow thing, I like my idea better.

<img src ="http://wsphotofews.excite.com/028/Vi/Oh/bL/kB94012.jpg">

 

i just wanted to say thanks for the zip file, i tweaked it a little, and made my speedo go up to 155 and the whole thing only cost me 7.00 for the best glossy paper that kinkos had, and the difference is amazing, thanks, again.

Matt
and does anyone know the easiest way to set the needles? cause my speedo tach and temp gauge are right on, but my oil pressure and fuel gauge are questionable

oh and to anyone who is considering this mod, i definitely say go for it, the results are worth the minmal effort,

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87 IROC-z 305 TPI 5spd 10-bolt 3.73 posi ,8.8 Accel wires , bosch platinum +4 plugs,MAF sensor screens removed, gutted air box, ram air, K&N air filters,TB coolant bypass ,polyurethane tranny and torque arm mounts, K&N oil filter,Mobil 1 synthetic oil 20w50, futura GLS super sport tires 265/50/15 rear and 235/60/15 front mounted on 86 monte carlo SS rims ,

400 sbc and a 6 spd in the works

 

hey kjrockz, did you ever think of putting the 4th gen RS symbol in the middle of the speedo? ya know the one wit the red bowtie and then the RS to the right of it. that would look bada$$ if you could find it.

 

Soulbounder....would you happen to have the time to make those white faced overlays with the bird in the center for my '83 TA? I cannot find any place that makes them...and you are my last hope. Could you some how find the whole gauge set up customize them...with the screaming chicken(firebird emblem) in the center...like you previously did. I am highly interested in these...and would greatly appreciate it if you could find the time to do it for me. Thanks.

James

 

Gee those files look oddly like the files in my tech article, amazing how you scanned them and made them the same with the Z28 and IROC looking the same the way you colored them. How strange. And I'm not talking bout the white parts, just the TACHS

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un4givin89



1989 Camaro Ralley Sport, 305 TBI 5 Liter v8

Project List:
Crate 383 Engine
Flowmaster Exhaust
New Tires
Windows tinted
Interior swapped for two tone colors
Lowering Springs
Sound System

www.mikekey.net

 

I have just completed putting homemade white face gauges in my car also. My hat's off to Mike Key, I'm sure the "real" white face guage manufacturers will be pissed at you I did both of my cars, and a few tips I learned doing 2 of them was 1.) A fork (yea, the eating utensil) makes the best guage puller offer I could find 2.) I used sticker paper and actually stuck them to the original guages which looks good because I was able to put all the pegs back inand get a super close trim around the odometer. I got the paper at Wal*Mart and it cost about $8.00 3) On my 82 Z28, since it sees very little street use, I deleted the odometer/trip odometer and it looks very clean. 4.) I couldn't decide if I wanted the needles white or flourescent orange so I left them white in my RS, and painted them Safety Orange (flourescent) in the Z28. Both are good looking and the orange needles match my Auto Meter Sport Comp gauges, which I am currently taking apart to do them in white too, they'll be Phantoms...w/o the price or that big gaulky black ring Auto meter puts around them!!

I should have pics in a day or two.

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82 Z28 383, Ported 215cc Dart Iron Eagle Heads 72 cc Comb. Chambers, Comp custom grind Hyd roller cam, Speed Pro .250" domes, Wheeler Motorsports 4340 I beam rods, Eagle 5140 steel crank, Weiand Team G intake, Holley 830 DP, hedman headers
Trans: Turbo 350 w/ 4000 stall -- Rearend 7.5 w/ Richmond 4.10's, Auburn Minispool
Best ET:11.60 @ 114.56, w/ a 7.34 1/8 @ 93.50, and a 1.622 60'


89 RS, L03 305, Hypertech Chip,cat delete, Dynomax exhaust,K&N open element Filter,160 stat, MSD coil --Trans:700R4 Corvette Servo -- Rearend: 7.5 GM 3.42 w/ posi-lock

Bassett Racing

 

Sounds awesome, I'm putting a all new gauges in mine so I will be redoing my white face gauges. I also deleted my trip meter cuase it don't work. HAHA

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un4givin89



1989 Camaro Ralley Sport, 305 TBI 5 Liter v8

Project List:
Crate 383 Engine
Flowmaster Exhaust
New Tires
Windows tinted
Interior swapped for two tone colors
Lowering Springs
Sound System

www.mikekey.net

 

I just reread some of the previous posts, and noticed that some of you are having the problem I had with the size of the templates. I had to scale each one of them down 33% (again, I used Mike Key's templates, and edited them a little to own liking) to get the right size. I just did it on my printer settings. I don't know why they did that, but nonetheless, they look killer now.

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82 Z28 383, Ported 215cc Dart Iron Eagle Heads 72 cc Comb. Chambers, Comp custom grind Hyd roller cam, Speed Pro .250" domes, Wheeler Motorsports 4340 I beam rods, Eagle 5140 steel crank, Weiand Team G intake, Holley 830 DP, hedman headers
Trans: Turbo 350 w/ 4000 stall -- Rearend 7.5 w/ Richmond 4.10's, Auburn Minispool
Best ET:11.60 @ 114.56, w/ a 7.34 1/8 @ 93.50, and a 1.622 60'


89 RS, L03 305, Hypertech Chip,cat delete, Dynomax exhaust,K&N open element Filter,160 stat, MSD coil --Trans:700R4 Corvette Servo -- Rearend: 7.5 GM 3.42 w/ posi-lock

Bassett Racing

 

does anyone have scanned guages for a 89 bird or similar????/

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Trent
---Car---
89 Firebird
305 L03 TBI A4
t-tops

---Stero---
Pioneer DEH-P730 Premium
Infinity 2way 4652 4x6's
Pioneer 4way ts-a6985 6x9's
profile cl640 110x4
2 pioneer 12" ts-w303c subs (selling if anyone wants em email me)

Future:im profile 1200sx 900watt x 1, and a pioneer cdx-p1270 12 disk cd changer

 

I still need them for the 305 carbie if anyone has them, and maybe even in km/h if someone can

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Nobody ever got cancer from smoking tires!
If you aren't living on the edge, you're just taking up space
gibsandwich@hotmail.com
www.icq.com : #18562788
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1982 Z28 Camaro
305 Carburated
Muncie 4-speed
2.5" Stainless steel exhaust all the way through
Fibreglass hood
Boston 4x6" CX7e 2-ways
6x9" Nippon America (no-name?) 3-ways
Other stuff I haven't figured out yet.

 

Bringing it to tha top

 

None of the links work

 

Thread is 11 years old.

 

Must be smoking someting good, thats 3 in a row.

 

No buddy has the 145mph cluster files?