The kids always find it amusing and typical when I get into this mode... doing several things at once, so the house has mid projects all over the place.

 

Ive got a lot of plans for the dial surrounds. All will be painted in gunmetal grey with a splash of silver. Hopefully the Apexi turbo timer will turn up tomorrow so I can start integrating it into the dial surround. I'm also building onto the side of the pods to hold a 2" digital gauge on each side oil temp/boost.

 

Yaye, the dials turned up today so typically the first thing I did was take them apart. So far I have that surround in primer ready to paint gunmetal/silver - probably tonight and ready for lacquer tomorrow. Silver dial rings ordered :)

 

The targas are about ready to put back together. Ive already put on the silly white plastic clips but waiting until tomorrow before I give the metal it's final rub down and polish before putting it all together. The skinny end caps on the metals have been fixed and painted gloss black, and the metal buttons on the top are now gunmetal grey to match the car.

 

The window tint turned up for the rear quarters today, and there is the 0AWG power cable thats going to give me a headache tomorrow. Alex decided to throw in a bit of polishing too.

 

.... slightly busy :yes:

Sounds a bit like me lol lots of jobs on the go at once lol you just get too many ideas and want to start them lol

lol have fun

thats one thick cable, are you sure your going to be able to route that with out the carpet sticking up?

 

naa you should be good, there are set channels you might be able to run it through once its through the firewall to the rear, the rear quarter panels will hide the rest till it enters the boot.

 

look forward to seeing what you have inmind for the dial surround.

thats one thick cable, are you sure your going to be able to route that with out the carpet sticking up?

 

naa you should be good, there are set channels you might be able to run it through once its through the firewall to the rear, the rear quarter panels will hide the rest till it enters the boot.

 

look forward to seeing what you have inmind for the dial surround.

 

Your probably right, I shouldnt worry about the thickness of this stuff just yet. It's very thickly insulated too, but there are already other wires running down the passenger side to power things like LED's. I should complain though because it was supposed to be blue not red!

 

The amps I have need 4 AWG so I have about 10metres of 8AWG kicking about that I don't need here. I'll be running it to a fused distribution block from 0 down to 4. Capacitors will have to wait until later but that's ok because there's window tinting, some welding and sound deadening to do before the new false floor gets built again before I can get back onto my boot build. I'm just trying to get all the wiring I can out of the way. I've even got the speakers wires though into the front doors - pig of a job!

 

 

Plans for the dash surround arent easy to see until things turn up but I can show you the items.. I'm not getting the actual gauges just yet though.

 

This and the matching oil temp one:

DIGITAL BOOST TURBO GAUGE SMOKED FACE 52mm

 

I'm going to cheat a bit and use these to start the sides of the pods off:

Gauge Pod Dash Single Flat Dashboard Mount Black

 

I took a chance on this which should turn up tomorrow - don't know if it will fit in where I thought yet..

APEXI TURBO TIMER NA TURBO Black Control BLUE LED - NEW

Interested to see what the dials look like in gunmetal :sailor:

Interested to see what the dials look like in gunmetal :sailor:

 

 

Looks quite nice I think, but it's not staying like this :)

I really like Groovers dash - he has carbon around the dials. From your experience is it easy to take it all apart to vinyl it?

Does it run of fresh air ? you've got just under a half a tankful !

I really like Groovers dash - he has carbon around the dials. From your experience is it easy to take it all apart to vinyl it?

 

It's really easy to take apart :), but what you see on the first sanded pic is as far as it goes. Those are very tight corners which are hard enough even to sand. I wouldn't try to stick vinyl straight onto it. Making a template out of thin plastic, sticking vinyl to that, and then placing/sticking the already cut and covered piece in would be the best way I think. :)

Does it run of fresh air ? you've got just under a half a tankful !

 

lol, the one out of the yellow car was reading more than that when I took it out. I wish it did run on fresh air! :)

lol, the one out of the yellow car was reading more than that when I took it out. I wish it did run on fresh air! :)

 

Should have put the one from the yellow car into then...:tt2:

 

I was lucky, turbo timer needed a little bit of tweaking and fit where the digital clock was housed. looks part of the car..

 

thats about as mechanical as I can get... lol...

 

Looks quite nice I think, but it's not staying like this :)

 

I like that will look spot on with chrome rings :thumbup1:

cheers Steams. Ive put some of the silver fade on the dial bezel now. It probably wont be in the car for zed world bash since the chrome rings have only just been sent out :(

 

If I thought it was hard to get the targas apart, getting them together is just as bad lol. One done, one to go.

 

Edited December 1, 201114 yr by Mrs HollowPoint

Well, i went for the intended subtle dusting around the edges and all alex could say was more silver... I think its a bit too much....what you think?

 

Ah bugger it, I strengthened the grey a little. Sorry about the fuzzy pic but it's the only way I can show the gradient most accurately. If the flash it on it just reflects too mush light no matter what I do. :) All I have to do to that now is dump a light coat of lacquer on, am not sanding it/smoothing it, wait for chrome rings to turn up and put it in the car :D

 

 

I'm not that happy with the fit on these chrome rings - too tight in the center ones making it not fit together flush at the ends. The small rings were too loose and had to be wedged in, but it sure looks purdy lol :)

 

Watch them not work now :)

 

I'm not that happy with the fit on these chrome rings - too tight in the center ones making it not fit together flush at the ends. The small rings were too loose and had to be wedged in, but it sure looks purdy lol :)

 

Watch them not work now :)

 

i had the same problem with the chrome rings, though mine was the other way around, large rings needed securing, smaller rings too tight and popped back out when driving so needed securing as well.

 

looks good though.

Looking good..!!

 

Richard:thumbup:

Well, the dials are in the car!!!! :clap::thumbup1:

 

 

The front upgraded LED's dont seem to work but I'm not bothered to be honest, i like them just the way they are. There seems to be more emphasis on the speedo than anywhere else with the intensity of the backlighting, but that suits me fine too :)

 

 

This silver to gunmetal is quite hard to photograph so you can see true effect.

 

 

I might end up taking them out to give them the 10 coat laquer supergloss finish at some point, but I'll decide when I've done that to the next part of the project....

Should send them off to grover and he will get a nice even glow with the leds :)

Should send them off to grover and he will get a nice even glow with the leds :)

 

lol she's/we're capable of doing that ourselves lol, we didn't do the LEDs, we bought the dials for the dial fascias and they happened to be LED'd, which was a bonus, as the control pods are already LED'd too.

so do it then :tt2:

lol we quite like the LEDs enhancing the speedo atm, but if Rose pulls it out for the 10 coat lacquer polish she referred to above, we may well bung a few more LEDs in there and refresh the forward LEDs that are just behind the steering wheel cowling that don't work :D

TBH, Ive had a comparison of work here that most dont get to see.

 

One being the pods, I think by Groover, and two being the Dials. I don't think the LED's in the dials were done by Groover because the style of work was completely different.

 

The upgrades on the pods are extremely tidy with only the separate (by that I mean custom / not pre ordered integrated) resistors very neatly popping out the back, and higher quality wide lense LED's installed.

The Gauges used some questionable use of the glue gun, some errors in soldering and cheaper less effective 10mm directional LED's. All I need to do is replace them really for that even finish :)

 

I'll explain.... I used to build new alarm clocks as a learning hobby with my dad who's designed most camshafts up to the V10 engine. I love my dad, taught me lots and the reason I'm nuts about cars and very practical :)

Edited December 15, 201114 yr by Mrs HollowPoint

I never fit leds into the forward facing lights, they spoil the look of the effect IMO.

I use a couple of 24cm led strips under the speedo and rev counter for a more even light and not hotspots.

Looking good so far, will be nice to see it all together in the car.