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Old 04-07-2004, 09:02 PM
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Custom Gauge Idea

My idea is taking out the stock gauge cluster(Speedo, tach etc.). I want to take the piece of plastic that covers the gauges and tinting it a little. Then put some digital gauges in brackets behind the tinted plastic. This was when the gauges were illuminated they would shine through the tint, and when the car was off, it would just look like a solid black panel.

Is this feasible?

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Old 04-08-2004, 03:21 PM
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That doesn't sound like too bad of an idea. I would want to make sure all my new gauges and bulbs would be bright enough. You might want to get a spare dash piece to try it out on, or even get some of that static cling tint to test it instead of regular 'sticky' tint.

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I think I will just get a spare plastic cover, tint that and try it out with one gauge, then if it works I will do the rest of the gauges, if not, ill just mount whatever gauge it was somewhere else.
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Sounds like a nice idea. I like that enough I may just try it too
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that sounds pretty pimp. go for it and take some pictures it may be worth alot of us looking into
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OK guys, just thought of something. How would I incorporate an odometer?
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the 97+ cars have a digital odo...you can convert that
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Old 04-12-2004, 04:37 PM
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some of the digital speeo's have odometers in them if you were going to go digital than it would solve your problem
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I remember one of our members in the 3rd gen board used the digital gauges under smoked plastic where the ash try was. It looked awesome.
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How hard would it be to throw the speedometer readings up on the windshield, like the GTP's? Virtually impossible? THAT would be pretty cool too.
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Old 04-12-2004, 10:32 PM
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The HUD display on the windshield may be easy. If you got the box that sits in the dash, it would just be a little cutting and so on to make it be in there. But to get it to read properly and have all the right stuff on there might be hard. But all it is a box that displays the info and you see the reflection in the glass. Actually a quite simple idea.
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Im pretty sure that the HUD is an output from the BCM, I would think that it would be a pretty involved process.
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Damn.
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Old 04-14-2004, 06:04 PM
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LPE sells one for 200 dollars. in a few different colors. i wanted one a while back but i didn't get it for some reason still can't figure it out. but ya check out thier web site.

http://www.lingenfelter.com/lingenfe...35&pf%5Fid=494


that should be the site
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HUD is cool, like on the corvettes, itd be more pimp if the HUD was projected in dif colors.
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