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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:15 pm
by bigzuk
suzuki boy wrote:Sounding good!

A set of nt no tach sounds good! With 31 correction! :cool:
this one here works for me also :armsup:

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:12 am
by da13ro
nicbeer wrote:yeh tru.

also remember there are a couple configurations.

NT inc tach
NT no tach
WT with tach (dont think we got WT without tach)

I'll be looking for one for 31,3.9s for a WT

Nic
Aha, good point, how differnt are the NT and WT's dashes? Are they really that different. I was aware that there was the old style dashes, and the new style. I suppose 1996 crossover.

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:52 am
by nicbeer
1988.5 was the cutover i think

NT = round vents
WT = square vents
coily = round vents (already white i beleive)

Nic

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:35 am
by foolsp33d
Somwhere in that thread it also taks about the spedos having adjustment

Anyone else fiddled with this lever??? if you do....a little....does ALOT.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:33 am
by Bad JuJu
How are people getting their dash front off, the F:bad-words:g hazzard switch is in the way :x

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:03 am
by ausyota
Bad JuJu wrote:How are people getting their dash front off, the F:bad-words:g hazzard switch is in the way :x
I cut a notch in mine to make it easier :D

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:37 am
by Puk
If you take the bottom steering column cover off, get down in the foot well and look up, there are two bolts securing the steering column up to the framework. Undo those two bolts and the steering column will drop down enough for you to get the top cover off the steering column, as well as being able to remove the dash cluster pretty easily. Just don't forget to do all the bolts and screws up again. I found this out while replacing my universal (blinkers and wipers) switch.

Puk

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:40 am
by Nev
And I'll be looking at a NT dash with tacho..preferrably with correction for 30's...let me know if its possible...sounds like you've got you're work cut out for you with all the combos so understand if you cant be bothered!

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:26 pm
by Puk
NT dash, 30's, no tacho.

Just to make it difficult. :D

Puk

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:08 pm
by da13ro
Ok so far we have:
Outer Limits
sanger - 31"
fool_injected
Red_Zook
suzuki boy - NT no tach 31"
bigzuk
vicelore
Nev - 31" (30" pref)
Bad Julu - 31" WT
smiley_smoke - 26"
smiley_smoke - 31"
want33s - 33"
nicbeer - 31" WT
karmic -31" WT
bigzuk - 31" NT
Nev - 30" NT /w Tach
Puk - 30" NT no Tacho

Ill post the vector I did later tonight, but im going to need templates of the others, so if your willing to help with that please let me know,

Cheers, Guys

(If there are any more of you who want one let me know)

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:28 pm
by ausyota
Ill take a WT 30" if they end up cheap enough.
Cheers.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:31 pm
by nicbeer
da13ro wrote: nicbeer - 31" WT
I have NT 3.9 ratios as well in the wt combo.

Making is hard i am thinking.

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:53 pm
by DiddyZook
Ooh ooh !!

Me Too!!


DiddyZook 31" WT

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:28 pm
by da13ro
^^ added you boys to the list :)

Ok I took some screen shots of what I had up on the screen, and I just found a button that would have saved me yonks on it, a button that would trace it for me. Anyway, you can see the guages that im doing first at http://www.r6design.net/personal/guages.gif If you wish to tell me what kind these are, please doo, if there not your one, if you could find/scan in some gages that I can trace there shouldnt be any problems.

BTW no graphics or designs have been done yet, these are purely the vectors for the laser cutter, the other option is to get these printed onto matt stickers, not sure which one is best yet! ill let ya all no!

edit// Nicbeer, making it isnt the problem, but if they are been screen printed it becomes costly doing differnt kinds (you basicly pay for the stencil) BUT if we end up printing them, I dont see the issue!

Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:45 pm
by sanger
good to see your making some progress. Cant wait to see how they turn out. good work.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:00 am
by vicelore
WT prob use the 33in tyers boys ones. looking forward to it.

if u need anything let me know im willing to get out and drive at diffecent speeds and mark on the spedo where they are. only thing is i havent got gears yet . so i dont think i can mark over about 70 ks on it lol.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:59 pm
by suzuki boy
Can you put like "go hard or go home" or "Chicks di9g body damage" On the face of the speedo or is that illegal?

Would be very cool! :cool:

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:45 pm
by da13ro
Legalities im not sure of, I don't see the problem though with having text on there.

Thanks Vicelore, ill sing out if I need it, first week back at school you see so been a bit hectic! Ill have some time over the weekend to see how we are going!

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:38 pm
by Puk
Have we had any developments on this yet?
Puk

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:50 pm
by short stuff
how they going ill have 2

nt with standard wheels
wt with 31s
Hey i was thinking you could use opake pespecks so you could change the colour by the bulb skins and put an out line around the number with black so you could see them in the day

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:51 pm
by nicbeer
did some ebaying

http://members.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI ... in_central

does white face kits. i emailed hime and got an answer. Bout 70 for a kit.

""Hey there,
Sorry we dont have anything for either of these models. We willl send you an email if a cluster crosses our path, as we need the cluster to create the first set of templates. Unless your able to send us your cluster maybe, we would create the templates, install them and send them back to you. For the set of templates and installation it is usually valued at $110.00 but we would do this for you for half price as you are helping us with a new item.
Have a think about it and get back to us.""

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:22 pm
by da13ro
They look very cool, and would save me alot of time, but doubt he will make them for differnt sized wheels, and $110 is fairly steep. I have been wacked with work over the past two weeks and havnt been able to work on my own designs, however if you guys go with these, then I will too.

Give me another week and ill try and get some mock ups done.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:37 pm
by =SKB=
How about an 'open source' approach where you create a template and people can modify or change up themselves when they have them printed.

The maths would be painful for the different setups on here...maybe someone with a Navman or similar could work out there true speed vs speedo and that applies to 31s 32s and so on.

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:49 pm
by suzuki boy
Link no workie for me!

Standard wouold still be alright just sit 5 k's under on the speedo! :cool: Thats what i have to do at the moment! Untill i go to 31's then it will more lickly be 10! :?

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 5:49 pm
by suzuki boy
Can you ask that guy what he can do if we want like 20-25 sets? Maybe free postage or cheeper or something! :cool:

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:46 pm
by smiley_smoke
well i may get my missus to do some work on em as she is a graphic design nerdler..
one mocked up i will be able to provide you guys with a template.. i am only doing my current setup .. just need to source a gps or something to make sure its all accurate. (or drive through lots of speed cameras :D)

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:45 pm
by mad_zook
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I took apart and scanned my speedo & tach guages in a little while ago and inverted the colours to make them white .. I think they look quite good! now to adjust the readings to match my tyres and get them printed!

The temp and fuel guages were left on the mechanisms when I did the scan but should still be suitable as a template.

http://gallery.agrajag.org/family/Kyle/sierra/speedo/

Kyle


does anyone have a copy of these on there computer that i can print out to scale???

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:19 pm
by karmic
mad_zook wrote:does anyone have a copy of these on there computer that i can print out to scale???
Not sure how you are trying to print them out, but if you tell your program to print them at the original DPI (or original picture size) they come out fine.

You will need to make sure your looking at the full picture from the gallery tho!

http://gallery.agrajag.org/family/Kyle/ ... ewsIndex=1
http://gallery.agrajag.org/family/Kyle/ ... ewsIndex=1
http://gallery.agrajag.org/family/Kyle/ ... ewsIndex=1
http://gallery.agrajag.org/family/Kyle/ ... ewsIndex=1

Kyle

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:05 am
by hyzook
What are they being printed on?
I have a WT dash with a vitara speedo head behind the cluster (that way the speed sensor is still hooked up to the engine computer as i am running a 1600 MPI)
What I had to do was scan a Vitara speedo face and I printed it out on paper (which produced a matt finish) and fit it over the Sierra cluster then I had the speedo calibrated and its all perfect :D
EXCEPT :cry: (hence my question) Now at night the dash lights dont light up the numbers as the light doesn't come through the paper and its hard to see.

White faced instruments.

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:18 pm
by want33s
How are the new faces going? I have ordered a set of 6.5:1 transfer gears that have 20% high range reduction. I am going to 33" tyres soon. I'll probably end up under stock in high range(by 1-3%) low range should be unreal. I still want white faces but not sure if stock will work or I need them recalibrated.