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warwgn
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Location: central Mississippi
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| Or buy autometer gauges, most of them are 12 o'clock at normal......well at least mine are. |
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size51
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Location: COLORADO
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| They got tons of that stuff, I picked up one at Walmart that I mmounted in the trunk of my goldwing, had 2 USB ports and a 12v cigarette style plug. Plenty of options, good luck. |
What did this look like? You have any pictures? I would want just one port incorporated under the dash maybe.
I was thinking of modifying the ash tray to fit an ipod with a hook up for the stereo. Be clean an simple and out of the way. The days of having a Deck in the dash are long gone. |
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warwgn
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Location: central Mississippi
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| Huh, seems inever took a pic of it? I thought i did, will look again tomorrow and post up for you. |
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Pi-Stix
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Location: Tampa Bay, Florida
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I stayed up late last night and finished the dash. It is installed but easy enough to remove and paint/cover it now before I wire it all in. Here's a few build pics.....
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Pi-Stix
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OK. So the more I look at this photo, the gauges look crooked. I know they are straight but damn it's bugging me. Now I'm wondering if I should use the stock dash pad, modified of course. Basically, just using the top and sides of it. Cutting another aluminum dash plate and then covering the whole thing with a good grade vinyl. so many options.
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dustymojave
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The reason the gauges look crooked is because the top of the dash is curved. The gauge centerline maybe should have been parallel to the top edge.
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warwgn
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| Just need to drop the speedo about 3/4" and that should even it out. |
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Pi-Stix
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Perhaps. I'll kick it around for a little while and update you guys with what I come up with. I have the original dash pad and it has a few cracks along the top. Thinking of covering that and the aluminum with a good marine vinyl. I believe it will come out good and follow the top edge as dustymojave stated. It looked great until I put it in. Don't get me wrong, it looks good but maybe I'm just being too picky.
Oh, and a lot of it is camera angle. It doesn't look that bad from the drivers seat but still looks a tad "off".
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BUGGUTZ
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Probably not as noticeable with the wheel on.
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Pi-Stix
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| Probably not as noticeable with the wheel on. |
True. It's not that noticeable with the wheel on. The other "issue" i'm having is that I'm using a 13" Grant GT wheel. It covers up a lot of the viewing area of the two outboard gauges. I think I'll mount those two lower and closer to center. Or I could just go with a larger wheel I guess.
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Tach / Stock Speedo / Alt Lite / Oil Lite / 12v outlet / oil press / intercom with XM radio
SWITCH'S
green switch= front bumper lights
red= oil cooler fan
blue=windshield washer pump
THIS is an off-road (street-legal) car!!
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Pi-Stix
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Very nice and clean!
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