How to modify your stock "lancer" gauge to accept useful gauges
How to modify your stock "lancer" gauge to accept useful gauges
How to modify your gauge cluster for a useful gauge.
Before:
After:
1. Take apart your dash and get to this point (gauges apart).
2. Fashion a circular base and cut out the shape of your wideband display.
This piece is glued in place so make it pretty. You can use a piece of plastic or whatever as well.
3. Use the base you made, and mark where you need to cut to fit your display. Your display will be different than mine. Deeper, shallower, wider whatever.
4. Cut the base. You may want to tape off the rest of the gauge assembly. Keep cutting until your display fits.
5. Depending on the thickness of the base you use, you'll need to shave a layer off the plastic. The cosmetic cover to the gauges actually sandwitches them.
So if your base is too thick, it won't fit. Think of this as shaving the frosting off a cake.
6. Glue the display to the base...You can use hot glue if you want. Whatever. Just attach it.
7. Run your wires through the open bulb openings in the gauge cluster
8. Position the base and display, glue the base into place.
9. Remove the bulbs from the back of the cluster
10. Place plastic covers back on
DONE
Before:
After:
1. Take apart your dash and get to this point (gauges apart).
2. Fashion a circular base and cut out the shape of your wideband display.
This piece is glued in place so make it pretty. You can use a piece of plastic or whatever as well.
3. Use the base you made, and mark where you need to cut to fit your display. Your display will be different than mine. Deeper, shallower, wider whatever.
4. Cut the base. You may want to tape off the rest of the gauge assembly. Keep cutting until your display fits.
5. Depending on the thickness of the base you use, you'll need to shave a layer off the plastic. The cosmetic cover to the gauges actually sandwitches them.
So if your base is too thick, it won't fit. Think of this as shaving the frosting off a cake.
6. Glue the display to the base...You can use hot glue if you want. Whatever. Just attach it.
7. Run your wires through the open bulb openings in the gauge cluster
8. Position the base and display, glue the base into place.
9. Remove the bulbs from the back of the cluster
10. Place plastic covers back on
DONE
Last edited by SophieSleeps; Oct 24, 2006 at 06:43 PM.
Bar none, the coolest thing I have seen to make use of a rather useless placement of a "gauge"...Which wideband are you using to accomodate this space?...Very innovative and unique...Shame they don't make gauges this small, one could run a boost guage if space would permit...I suppose depending on which wideband you are using, any type of info could be displayed on the screen, is this correct?
-austin
edit: Oops!, didn't see other thread...Disregard the others, this is my question: where do you get a small LCD for this job?
-austin
edit: Oops!, didn't see other thread...Disregard the others, this is my question: where do you get a small LCD for this job?
Last edited by xX v0oDo0 Xx; Oct 24, 2006 at 06:58 PM.
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hands down one of the koolest things done on here.
and they do make a 45mm boost gauge you can probably fit in there but that wideband is a damn good idea.
and they do make a 45mm boost gauge you can probably fit in there but that wideband is a damn good idea.
Your primary concern is size of the screen.
45mm is less than 2" and that should work for this application. The diameter of that hole is slightly less than 2"
Your bigger concern is depth. Whatever gauge you choose will have to be less than 1.5" thick. ...or even thinner. I didn't measure how much room I needed. I knew I had enough.
45mm is less than 2" and that should work for this application. The diameter of that hole is slightly less than 2"
Your bigger concern is depth. Whatever gauge you choose will have to be less than 1.5" thick. ...or even thinner. I didn't measure how much room I needed. I knew I had enough.
