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


final layout


drilling the holes


almost there


switch panel layout


Me touching up the gauge holes with the dremel.


Beginning to powder coat the panels and my 5 point harness buckels


More powder coating


Even more powder coating

 

Continued.

Switches and leds


Finished cluster panel


Cluster panel lit up


More cluster panel


switch panel


Tripple pillar pod and gauges


Auto meter Digital tach/shiftlight combo unit

 

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?
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

 

ahhh see how good i am
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.

 

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?

 

the switch panel fits into the console box.

That would be charlie