custom dash - sort of
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custom dash - sort of
So I've got another Camaro at home that I have big plans for in the coming years, but I had an interesting idea for the dash and was wondering if anyone else had done it or had any thoughts on it.
What I'm thinking is taking a stock gauge cluster and removing all of the internals, get a set of Autometer gauges and remove their housings and mate these to the factory cluster. Then, have a set of gauge faces made to reflect the new internals.
My reason for doing this is at first glance you'd have a factory dash, but if you actually look at it you'd notice a higher speedo, tach with correct redline for new engine, and temperature/oil pressure gauges that actually have numbers instead of hashmarks.
Thoughts/opinions/suggestions?
What I'm thinking is taking a stock gauge cluster and removing all of the internals, get a set of Autometer gauges and remove their housings and mate these to the factory cluster. Then, have a set of gauge faces made to reflect the new internals.
My reason for doing this is at first glance you'd have a factory dash, but if you actually look at it you'd notice a higher speedo, tach with correct redline for new engine, and temperature/oil pressure gauges that actually have numbers instead of hashmarks.
Thoughts/opinions/suggestions?
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kickass idea. i have been wanting to do a similar thing with a firebird dash. new speedo and tach in stock locations. replace the other two combo guages (two guage faces w/ four total readouts) with six separate guages. oil pressure, voltmeter, cylhead temp, water temp,fuel lvl, and fuel pressure. but i have never made a custom anything and i am worried i will seriously screw it up. also we are talking about like $600-$1000 worth of guages.
but i will do ANYTHING not to have a pillar pod. they look so tacky and import. (no offence to anyone who does like pillar pods, the existance of car bras proove that there is a market for everything)
but i will do ANYTHING not to have a pillar pod. they look so tacky and import. (no offence to anyone who does like pillar pods, the existance of car bras proove that there is a market for everything)
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Cool idea, a lot of work but I know that doesn't bother you. I'm trying to figure out how I can put an electronic speedometer in my 89 iroc dash and make it look stock.
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Chris, if you knew the plans I've got for the Iroc I've got sitting in the garage, you'd definitely know "a lot of work" doesn't mean much to me 
As far as the electric speedo, do you mean one of the thirdgen electric ones? I don't see why you couldn't do something similar to what I talked about. Keep the gauge face you've got, but put the electric speedo guts behind it. shouldn't be too awfully difficult since its still a thirdgen piece. then again I don't know how the gauge clusters are different.
As far as the electric speedo, do you mean one of the thirdgen electric ones? I don't see why you couldn't do something similar to what I talked about. Keep the gauge face you've got, but put the electric speedo guts behind it. shouldn't be too awfully difficult since its still a thirdgen piece. then again I don't know how the gauge clusters are different.
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