Custom Digital Dash August 27, 2010, 12:52:29 PM I wanted to keep my car clean and stock looking so I had all my factory gauges hooked up and working but the tach couldnt keep up and the oil pressure and temp gauges just show bars,,not good for racing! I finally found a digital gauge panel that works perfect for me, all my gauges for $250! They have the same one with a tach but it was too long to fit in the factory gauge space and I needed one with a shift light anyways. It also has 0-60 and 1/4 et, I havent gotten a chance to play with that yet but its a neat added feature! Check it out! Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #3 – August 27, 2010, 02:29:48 PM That's different. Nice. You going to spill the beans what you used? I wouldn't. Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #4 – August 27, 2010, 03:40:10 PM that is cool! now can you have it read boost as well? along with the important info you would need about your motor. Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #5 – August 27, 2010, 06:34:08 PM I'd like to hear the details.That looks great. Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #7 – August 28, 2010, 01:36:21 AM It does look great and seamlessly installed! Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #8 – August 28, 2010, 02:21:32 PM I have dash envy !! Like the shifter also. Quote Selected
Custom Digital Dash Reply #9 – August 30, 2010, 01:22:06 PM I wouldnt post pics and keep it a secret! Its actually a summit racing brand dash panel, It doesnt come with a boost gauge, just the one I got and one with a tach. it has LEDs for turn signals and a high beam indicator. It reads fuel level in % and would work with our stock sending unit but I have a fuel cell and a 70-10 ohm sending unit and all u need to do is flip a switch to change the ohm reading for the gauge,,, That was a big seller for me since before my fuel gauge read backwards! It also seems to be working ok with the factory speedo but it cuts off @ 99 and its suposed to go to 300mph, it came with a new sender for it but I dont know if Ill use it yet. The only other thing I needed was a 90* fitting so the oil psi sender would fit because the factory sender read to high and the one it came with was bigger. I didnt take pictures as I was doing it so Ill try to explain the best I can. So all I did was gut the gauges and cut a small hole in the back for the wires to go thru then I painted it black inside to make sure no white would show thru. I used the stock gauge face and cut the plastic out between where the factory gauges were to fit in the new single panel,, I got a piece of plexi glass and used the factory gauge face as a template, I used a hot razor to cut the plexi glass to fit tight inside the gauge face and drilled holes in the top for the 3 bolts. Once I had it fit the way I wanted it I marked and drilled 4 bolt holes and a hole for the trip button for the new gauges using the tinted glass they came with. Now what I did was bolt the tinted face the new gauges came with in position on the back side of the plexi glass(taped off) and painted the back of the plexi glass black,, so it would have the shape of the new gauges left clear,,, after that dried I put the tinted gauge face over the plexi glass and the new gauges under the plexi glass and bolted them together. I was also thinking about tinting the plexi glass instead of painting it so I wouldnt need to use the face the new gauges came with wich would have made it one smooth surface,, it would have also allowed me to use the factory plastic cover for a real factory look... but I wanted to make sure you couldnt see anything thru it and my clear plastic cover from my gauges didnt look very clear compaired to the new shiny plexi glass. The shine plays tricks on the eyes and it actually looks like it has a cover on it. so Im really happy with it. Oh and the textured part at the bottom of the gauges is where all the factory buttons used to be,, Thats just traction tape wich I also used on the metal rivited to where the radio and heater used to be,,, Ties it in nicely I think...:D Quote Selected
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