Let me start by saying thanks to all of you guys for the kind words. I really appreciate it!!
oldskool-nick said:
Wow!
Grant = My hero
Awesome job man! Glad to see it turned out so well. What ever became of the steering column gauge holder? Any night pics? Damn, that wiring must have been quite a bit of fun. 14 gauges, correct? Keep up the good work. Amazing job as always!
-Nick
Nick, I haven't had a chance to take night pics yet. I will though. I'm didn't like the green bulb covers so I'm using red ones...I may switch to blue though. There are 13 gauges total. The steering column pod went up fs on ebay quite a while back, and did fairly well. I never even used is, it only ended up on the car for pics.
xffe said:
I take it for the fuel cell the entire back area was chopped down so it sits level in the hatch area? looks that way. Sorry I've never looked at fuel cell setups so i've no idea, I was actually looking into something similar.
Correct. I gut out the floor from the x-member back to the rear body panel, then from the inside of the left rail to the inside of the right rail. There is a peice of aluminum that attaches to the bottom of each framerail, the sump drops below it, but the rest of the cell bottom is at the same height as the bottom of the rails. There is then another peice of aluminum on top of the rails which the cell passes through on it's way up. I have some "in progress" pics I'll try to post later. I'll pm you when I do.
IJ. said:
Where are the aircon vents?
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:thefinger I really can't beleive it wasn't asked by anyone else, and I know why you did!! lol! I haven't had A/C in about 2 years, and I don't drive in the winter so the heat is very rarely used either. Thus, they got the axe. I thought about getting some round vents, like for the street rod guys, but figured what's the point.
Idealsupra said:
arent hose gauges hard to read with that carbon fiber overlay in them? looks pretty sweet and awesome job with the custom work
what i want to know...is what all the lights do...tell me now!
No, they're pretty easy to read. The hard part right now is remembering which gauge is where! It's going to take a bit of time to get used to, but should be no trouble in the long run. The blue lights in the middle are for the turn signals and the brights. The ones on the left are for low coolant, mil, and alt.
MisterTurbineTwister said:
I see the cause for the following gauges on a fully metered car, but what are the other 5 gauges doing???:
Tachometer
Speedometer/Odometer/Tripometer
Fuel level
Fuel Pressure
Air/Fuel Ratio
Oil Pressure
Temperature
Voltmeter
Boost meter
What else could there be?
Antifreeze/Coolant level
Exhaust Gas Temperature
Clock and a
Blingometer?
What do all of those wonkameters tell you when you're driving?
Barometer, outside ambient air temp, windchill factor, horizon level, altitude, downforce, cholesterol, bloodsugar, sex appeal, weapon skill and the current progress with your girl friend?
Criminey! Good work though!
Gotta say I got a nice laugh from your post! I put basically every gauge there I could possibly ever need except nitrous. I have no intentions of running nos, and I wasn't about to put one in there and look gay without having a bottle. Here's the rundown on the gauges...
Tach.........
Speedo.........
UEGO...............
Fuel Level............
Fuel Pressure...........
Oil Pressure.................
Oil Temp........................Beleive it or not, that's all off the top of my head!
Trans Temp.................
IAT..........................
EGT........................
Boost..................
Voltmeter..........
Water Temp...
No clock, no nos.
