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Old 18-06-2009, 12:44 AM
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Ive been looking at my lockwood dials for way too long now! I fancy doing something different i.e creating my own instrument panel with speedo, rev, fuel, boost...whatever really.

Has anyone done something similar to this, maybe has pictures of theirs?

Any idea on a rough sort of price to look toward as well?

Old 18-06-2009, 08:07 AM
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this is what i done with mine

mine worked out quite expensive in the long run (just because of some of the gauges that i have chosen), would of been cheaper for me to get a digital dash

if you just replacing original dials it could be done quite cheaply
Old 18-06-2009, 08:11 AM
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Cheers Gus. The kinda thing i had in mind was to rip out the old dial faces, build a new facia cover and then add 52/60mm gauges into that.
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heres mine,



thats all i done, replaced the plastic with carbon and then cut holes in it to suit what i had
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https://passionford.com/forum/ford-e...ks-gauges.html
Old 18-06-2009, 08:32 AM
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Cheers Karlos (hope alls well mate )

Gus, thats pretty much what im on about. How much did all that set you back in the end (minus the flocking etc)
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Yeah all is good, just waiting on the MS ECU to be built, 2-3 weeks
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No car till then? or are all parts building up in a big box in the garage?

you still need to hurry up tho, you said a day
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Eight stack gauges in centre + large boost & Stack in binacle.






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no idea really what i spent

but


it was alot

i have...

revs
fuel pressure
fuel level
oil pressure / temp
spa speedo
spa brake bias
spa lap timer
zeitronim afr - egt - lambda - boost

think thats about it other than idiot lights
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Originally Posted by Marts
No car till then? or are all parts building up in a big box in the garage?

you still need to hurry up tho, you said a day
LOL
Yeah still MFI for now so driving about, it's my daily!
All the bits are sitting in my kitchen waiting to go on, hopefully it will only take me a day to do the conversion!
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puss ya show off
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Nice one Puss, cheers.

These gauges everyone uses... Stack. They dead expensive? Also, with flicking thru the other thread, it seems it's only the seriously quick cars/track cars have done these dash mods.... Not worth it for a daily runner then?
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they are only there to keep ay eye on what the engine is doing

so guess its how much you value your engine really
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Best gauges to get? Most reasonably priced gauges to get?

As in manufacturer...
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Got mine from mike
http://www.randbmotorsport.co.uk/sho...ID=1&offset=30

Apart from the rev counter and digital speedo which i got from Dave (cliff) when he broke his s1

Steve

As gus said you dont need to have a track car to have them mine isnt used every day. And they look good


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They look mint actually
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Been toying with something similar myself for a while.
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i have purchased one of these!

does most things needed all in one box

http://www.etbinstruments.com/DD2_lite.htm

will be picking it up monday hopefully
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the price of ACT gauge from randbmotorsport was 42 GBP 1 gear ago. Now the price is 72,5 GBP...But says ''new product'', i don't know if there is something new...
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was thinking about this me self, and getting the dash flocked who can do this dash flocking an how much would it cost
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Originally Posted by tasos77
the price of ACT gauge from randbmotorsport was 42 GBP 1 gear ago. Now the price is 72,5 GBP...But says ''new product'', i don't know if there is something new...
yeh it is a new product.the old one was discontinued for ages and wasnt able to get them.
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