WTB: Dash face

[doommachine]

Recently installed a gauge into my dash, but I was a tad enthusiastic with the dremel and now you can see the white bit at the top of the gauge.

So, if anyone has a screwed dash, all I really need is the part with the perspex. - Suggestions as to where I can get one? Is it the same part in GSR's, etc?

 

[Jonson]

GSR Galant dash's look identical. Go to U Pull it and grab one of their perspex covers.

 

[doommachine]

So it has all the 4ws lamps in it?

 

[p3akin]

sorry for the hijack, but have always wanted to install a gauge into the dash, would u be able to post some pics up or even pm them to me..

thanks Peter

 

[JayRome]

ya mean this right?

 

[Jonson]

Just take out the 4WS. :wink:

 

[doommachine]

Yep thats what I need...

p3akin, when I get a new face I'll take some pics of the insides for you. (unless you just want some pics of the finished product? Looks crap now though cause I ground too much from the top )

All up it cost me less than 100 bucks to do, including buying a dremel I suppose I can do a bit of a "how to", although to be honest, as soon as you take the dash apart it's fairly obvious what needs to be done... grind grind grind!!!

 

[Richard]

yeah I wanna see the finished dash, I don't understand at all what you've done, have you removed anything? The dash is usually full allready (speedo, warning lamps, fuel guage that kinda stuff) I don't know where you would fit an aditional guage?? :?

 

[doommachine]

(click for big pic)

(as you can see I need a new dash face... got a bit pedantic with the roundness, but now that its in the car I realise it would have looked fine wonky... haha plus its still not round :/)

Anyway, its a 50mm speco gauge. If your car is auto, it will require lots of mods to go in, luckily most VR4's are manual.. just take the dash apart, dismantle the speco gauge... some modification of the dash is required. Luckily there is a place at the back of the hole where the connection for the air pipe goes, just pop through it with a stanley knife and add a bit of tape to stop it ripping. Also I had to grind the edges of the speedo and tacho as well, this isn't 100% necessary but it makes it possible to remove/install the boost gauge without taking the speedo out and wiggling it all around.

 

[p3akin]

yeah the finished product .. thanks mate..

ive always wanted to slap a boost gauge in to the gsr dash... but like richard said.. its sooo full, i wouldnt know what where to put it..

and i want to change the layout/style of the current speedo and rev meter to look the same as the Apexi EL series gauges...

but i guess i can only dream haha..


*EDIT* ooops.. forgot to add, looks good mate.. round out the edges and it'd look awesome...

and how did u manage to get a boost gauge and dremel for under 100 bucks lol

 

[doommachine]

Speco gauge - 57.80
Superworks dremel - 29

Shittiest dremel accessories ever, but it goes pretty hard.

 

[Jonson]

Very good idea! Round it out a lil more and it would look pretty much factory.

Should have changed the colour of the needle

 

[doommachine]

Haha.. yeah I know, that's next.. I don't mind that it's red, because it's in the middle, but when the lights are on it's invisible. So I either need to provide backlighting or somehow paint the needle so it glows when the lights are on.

 

[f1355spider]

I've got the piece you need off a VR4 cluster! The plastic has small cracks in the bottom of it but I just checked against mine in the car and once the cover is fitted, you shouldn't see the cracks at all. $40 delivered to your door, let me know if you want it.
cheers.

 

[JayRome]

yo use a hole saw next time for the gauge hole in the plastic. $10 bunnings Redline 16pce hole saw set, cant go rong, at least you wont go nuts on the dremel and wreck it again.....

 

[doommachine]

Yes the hole saw is a good idea buuuut... I want the bottom part to be square . I'll figure some way to do it properly. A jigsaw? Eh surely overkill..

 

[JayRome]

hole saw then die grind it flat at the bottom, not hard and is perfect rounded at the top......