+2, nothing worse than autometer gauges arrgh, especially when someone murders a sss 1600 dash to fit them.
make me cringe the same, as when i see a butcherd datsun grill to fit a gigantic intercooler.

some of those gauges in the classicintruments site are much more suited

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When the sign says "don't feed the bears", man you better not feed the bears.

At some stage I'm going to attempt to cut and shut some 240K gauges into a 200B instrument cluster. As far a I can tell, the only problem with this is that I won't be able to reset the trip.

Still can't work out how to get the 240K needles off without breaking them though...

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Try this
Use a kitchen fork, slip it under the needle hub and rock it on its curve to press the needle off from underneath
NO GUARANTEES

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i use autometer procomp gauges and love them my tacho is 100 rpm out of what the computer reads i put this down to being analog i would reccomend them

no one has mentioned 'smiths gauges' yet. google it. look like forum jockeys gauges (by the way, that setup is just effing sexual dude)

nice old skool style gauges with chrome bezels. ususally used in american hot rods

i am also against ppl ruining a dato dash with a sea of autometer crap. however, the 1600 i puchased came with a vdo 'semi' monster tacho, with a plain old red led shift light on the dial face and and the recall fucntion panel on the side. always wanted one like that, so i think i'll keep it considering i want to do a lot of 1/4 mile work.

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1600 with FJ20 & Simmons. something different.

My old man totally agrees on the smiths industries gauges, he reckons they always were and always will be the toughest and most accurate gauges in the world, apparently they were also aligned with nippon denso and deisel kiki and for those that really know jap engineering they will appreciate just how accurate they would have to be to pass their QC. Dad used only smiths gauges in all his builds whether it was for his drag beasts, or for the wow factor in the show,shine and dream cars,he was a bit dissapointed when they went from analog to digital, but hey thats progress

check these out this is where he used to get them http://www.derek.com.au/smithsgauges.html

think i might like a 300kph speedo and a 10,000rpm tacho lol

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my baby is a 85 s3 bluey with CA20E auto
next year maybe RB20DE or RB20DS 5 speed

I have Autometer sport comp in my car and they all seem to be spot on,the boost gauge is even right with my eboost and the tacho is right with my laptop pluged into the Motec.
As for gauges in 1600 and cutting up sss dash each to there own but i think mine looks ok.
Also serves well

Is speco really anything worth while?

I know they're cheaper and all, but for the interim ive been using a Speco sports series boost/vac gauge and its performed ok.

Holds boost pressure accurately, and mostly vacuum too, however anything over 10-13 HG it stops registering.

Are they worth the money? Or would you spend some more and aim towards a VDO gauge.

I want a black face non intrusive gauge that i can hide inside the stock cluster arrangement. Also im only seeing 10 psi. So nothing hectic.

Any ideas, advice?

VDO should be good for what you want.

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I was thinking along those lines. VDO was no.1 on my list.

Whats the cheapest place to get them. Ive seen numerous places that sell them, but highly marked up.

Whats the going rate for a basic, boost gauge.

Cheers.

I dont really mind all types of guages, they all serve there intended purposes in certain styles of cars/interior designs. I dont mind autometer guages, ive got onto a complete set of the phantom series guages (including speedo and tacho) for a steal price. So may go with them. If that fails ill be going for a complete stewart warner setup, just to get away from the norm a little.

instead of starting a new thread, thought i might ask ppl to start posting pics of where you're gonna mount your gauges. ive reached a wall, and dont know where to mount mine.
im not making a sheet metal dash because i wanna keep factory look, not mounting outside behind plenum, and not spending 600 on a jdm dash fascia off ebay. any pics for ideas would be nice

oh, and listing what size gauges you're using would be just splendid

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1600 with FJ20 & Simmons. something different.

im thinking about buying one of these https://www.parecomposites.com/view_par ... re-147.jpg

and mounting the gauges on that and any switches etc

what gauges? you could create a centre pod like newer cars have 'top centre' of dash... maybe find an old split dash pad and start from there, modify and retrim.
hmmm, just came up with that idea, might muck around with my spare dash pad

some people mount them on a 3 gauge bracket under the radio, bolted to the dash frame. not sure on vision there, but depends on what you're looking at, needing to keep an eye on.

Hmm nice idea Red510 Surely someone has a pic of this done already?