Best place for custom gauge mount?

Post Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:50 pm

Ok a mate of mine works with carbon fibre and he's making a custom gauge mount for his starlet, so hes gonna see about doing one for my sport at the same time, question is where would be the best place to put it?

I was thinking where the ashtray is infront of the gear stick, any other suggestions?

Something like this is what i mean...

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:13 am

I like the jap style ones on the windscreen pillar...

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:06 pm

Stoney_god wrote:I like the jap style ones on the windscreen pillar...

Nah that's too out there.

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:11 pm

I agree craig, either top centre air vents on the dash like in your pic or down near the ashtray, near the ashtray is a little more subtle, like in the Audis. Nice set of VDO gauges in there. Needs to look original though otherwise it can look a bit lax power IMO

Used to be a spunk-worthy mod in the MK2 Golf, Votex centre console with the VDO gauges in.

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:38 pm

Craig did this the other day, i do apolligise for the white gauge, it was all i could get hold of for the right Ãƒ”šÃ‚£Ãƒ”šÃ‚£'s Fairly easy to do, took about 2 hours tops:

They are more useful rather than show winning presentation if you know what i mean.

Sorry for large image size as well

Jon

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:41 pm

I used a pair of plastic zip ties and all is cool!

Post Fri Oct 07, 2005 6:32 pm

E30BeemerLad wrote:Needs to look original though otherwise it can look a bit lax power IMO

Yea the carbon fibre is a bit of a concern with that as im not sure if carbon will look.."chav", i just want bits that are one off if you get me.

Jon, That's mint mate, do you have the measurements for that or?

Post Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:16 am

http://www.e30zone.co.uk/modules.php?na ... ight=gauge

Theres mine i did mate, not carbon fiber, but thats the best place for them i recon. Still havnt got round to wiring mine up yet, aint got a clue where to start lol

Post Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:23 am

i reckon the ones in the original pic looks a bit more "natural", see taylor325i as he's done the same

Post Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:25 am

Craig i don't mate the cars at home and i'm at uni. I just mocked it up with paper, cut, cut got it right then used 5mm mdf, strong enough, but at the same time easy to work with and it fitted a treat! If you still haven't got round to doing it when i next visit home i can get you the measurments not a problem.

Swirly yours look really good there, especially with the 3 gauges, i feel inferior with only 2

Post Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:29 pm

ive just won these on Ebay

any advice on where to fit them and which ones to use?

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OLD AND USED oil psi + sender+ tee and twin holder, vdo volts, vdo kp/cm 0-5 , vdo temp 40-120,

any ideas or templates to go off would be great

cant wait to get them in and wired up

Post Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:55 am

I've been thinking about doing this for ages, and the only thing that has stopped me, was I wasn't sure how to wire up the gauges from that center consol to thru the fire wall... I've never really fiddled around there u know. ??

Mine is also a 3 gauge setup... Got all my measurements and did a Isometric drawing of it... just for future reference