Custom gauge faces on my SA22C :D

[-xlr8planet-]

Hi again guys

As usual, when I dont have the engine parts I need, I turn into more trivial, usually asthetic things, like polishing or painting something.

This time, I happend to have the gauge cluster at hand and I thought "man, that thing looks like crap compared to the 99FD cluster."

For starters, Im a sucker for cars with the tach starting with 0rpm at 6 o´clock.

Since you just pop out the needle to remove it, nothing stops you from putting it at 6 o´clock if the gauge is re-design accordingly.

To make custom gauges, you CANT just overlay something on top of the existing one. For starters, its backlit, and the previous design will show up.

So the solution is to create the pieces from scratch. That meant finding the proper material to do so.

First try: printed gauge over a plastic material, and since we have no limits on what can be done, lets go Ferrari style mixed with RE logos (dont hate me if you guys dont like it, I wanted to try something in color instead of just black)

Oh, and while I was at it, I decided I wanted RED needles. (I will post how to some other time)

SO here we go, pics to make this thread worthy.


Stock cluster. I really really hate the volt meter and the clock



opening up the cluster






tach face removed



Pretty much what it will look like, but without the tach face



Stock and my options



Stock against light



Custom against light. The whole yellow part should lit up at night. I might add some leds to the oem illumination.



Gauge face against the LCD tv. This kinda shows what the material is like.


And .... you guys probably wonder "WTF? where are the pics of the finished thing!"


Here´s the deal: Post a comment, a critic, whatever you guys want, and I will post the pics tomorrow


Thanks for reading!