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[garth1976]

Letting every one know what project I have started.
I picked up an SLR cluster in very bad condition.
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found the 4in1 gauges fryed. Came across these on ebay
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with a bit of drawing, cutting and disecting it looks like the 52mm vdo gauges will fit in behind the face
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I plan to use the lighting method the vdo 52mm gauges use. I am also using the rare spares replacement decal set, which i found light can go thru the decals
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I am going to put this in a sl cluster. it will need i bit of cutting.
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If i get this done, no more voltage regulator!!!!

[TerrA LX]

I love your line of thinking.

[garth1976]

does anyone have pictures of the gauge overlay removed from the cluster? i have to create my own as the gauges i got didnt have one.

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Edited by garth1976, 02 November 2009 - 09:47 AM.

[ls2lxhatch]

Rare Spares have decal sets for the Yellow and White gauges.

DD1001 Yellow $46.20

DD1002 White $46.20

This is my cluster with the VDO speedo and tacho. I was also considering replacing the 4 in 1 gauges so the needles and lighting match.

Edited by ls2lxhatch, 10 November 2009 - 12:09 PM.

[MRLXSS]

Oh, what a great idea!

Looking forward to seeing this evolve!

[TerrA LX]

^ That's awesome.

[Heath]

That is cool!

[76lxhatch]

BCR42Y I like the last one, I wonder if the individual gauges can be swapped around inside to get them in the factory position?

Also it would be nice to have white or yellow needles instead of those horrible fluro orange ones, the rest of the facias are quite nice. I guess you can always disassemble and paint the needles...

[Heath]

Also it would be nice to have white or yellow needles instead of those horrible fluro orange ones, the rest of the facias are quite nice. I guess you can always disassemble and paint the needles...

I don't know how much truth there is in it, but I've heard that painting the needles can throw the mass off enough to make the guage inaccurate. Obviously if you could calculate it you could just file the end down a little to compensate while you're at it. But that's probably not realistically gonna be measurable

[Growla]

How did the vdo custom quad gauge work out?
Any pictures??

Edited by Growla, 23 June 2010 - 08:27 PM.

[Pop's-SS]

SS gauges are not much chop and I've seen a u-beaut set go for $900 on evilbay so I've managed to get a reasonably cheap 2nd set.

Those gauges look very nice but I want to stick to original unfortunately.

Still need pics of facia of SS gauges then let me know as I've should have a pulled apart one somewhere.

The voltage regulator behind the panel is what stuffs them as they are not reliable and when they fail, so do your gauges

Regards ... Barry