Custom one off 3rd gen aftermarket gauge cluster. Pics inside.

Me and my friend charlie (stangkilla91) spent all yesterdsay and today buying the stuff and fabbing up this custom gauge cluster for charlies thirdgen. We used 1/4" aluminum plate stock and cut it to size. Then we used a 3" hole saw and a 2" hole saw to cut the rough holes. Final touches to the holes were made with a dremel using a carbide bit. The leds came from radioshack and were wired with 640 ohm resistors and placed in a chrome led holder. The switch panel goes inside the console. The switch panel uses the same typ leds and resistors and led holders. The switches are just plain toggel switches. The gauges are Auto Meter's Phantom II series. The gauges in the cluster are: Speedo, Volt, fuel level. The ones in the pillar are oil pressure, tranny temp and water temp. The tach is a shift light/digital tach by autometer.

cluster layout
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/1.jpg

final layout
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/2.jpg

drilling the holes
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/3.jpg

almost there
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/4.jpg

switch panel layout
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/5.jpg

Me touching up the gauge holes with the dremel.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/6.jpg

Beginning to powder coat the panels and my 5 point harness buckels
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/7.jpg

More powder coating
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/8.jpg

Even more powder coating
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/9.jpg

Continued.

Switches and leds
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/10.jpg

Finished cluster panel
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/11.jpg

Cluster panel lit up
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/12.jpg

More cluster panel
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/13.jpg

switch panel
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/14.jpg

Tripple pillar pod and gauges
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/15.jpg

Auto meter Digital tach/shiftlight combo unit
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s187/CJGanttphotography/car%20projects/16.jpg

Looks good man just need to see it installed. To tell you how it looks fit inside the car.

Whats the row of yellow and red LED's for?

I've never liked custom stuff like that in cars, but I respect the hard work you put into it. It looks very good!

nice! very clean looking and looks like a race car. im assuming the 2 green LEDs are the left and right turn signal and the blue is high beams on? but im wondering what the yellow and red ones are also?:confused:
and i gotta see that in the car in day.

Yellow 1 = fans on
Yellow 2 = electric water pump on
Yellow 3 = line lock
Red 1 = check engine light
Red 2 = low oil light
Green 1 = l turn
blue= high beams
green 2 = R turn

Green 1 = l turn
blue= high beams
green 2 = R turn
ahhh see how good i am:cool:
and is his car pro street or somethin with all this line lock and shift light mombo jumbo? i gotta see more of this thing

We both just run on the tnt and gamblers nights. No classes yet. But we did swap a lt1 into it.

ill definately post pics of it when im through, hopefully it will be soon, but who knows, these things seem to take longer to finish than expected. like jeff said, i just run at t&t nights for fun, but plan on getting into a class when i get it back on the road. thanks for the support guys.

ill definately post pics of it when im through, hopefully it will be soon, but who knows, these things seem to take longer to finish than expected. like jeff said, i just run at t&t nights for fun, but plan on getting into a class when i get it back on the road. thanks for the support guys.

yeah i gotta see how it looks in the dash and where the switch panel goes where are you putting the switch panel anyway?

So who owns the powder coat setup?

yeah i gotta see how it looks in the dash and where the switch panel goes where are you putting the switch panel anyway? the switch panel fits into the console box.

So who owns the powder coat setup?

That would be charlie