I can understand that! I had a similar problem with a pillar pod in my 2G.

Michael

 

Shape looks good, quality looks good.
The place to mount them is again my (and only mine) rule of thumb. Avoid the cops.
It reminds me the Hondas (don't remember the model) with the huge digital speedometer from factory saying to everybody how fast you go.
If I’m a cop and I’m looking for speeders those gauges look like sweet candy to my eyes.

 

well gauges need to be visible when driving hard. ie on the track, i'm not looking down to see my a/f ratio, or else I'm off the track real quick. and so we have two options: this or an a-pillar.
a-pillar is a total cop magnet, because every rice boy in the world has them on their Honda. this looks oem, thus merits less attention. Maybe only slightly less, but if you're worried about the cops, don't do anything illegal?

 

They make 3 gauge A-pillar pods for 2g dsms. Just trade in your X.

 

The cops may not even know if they are aftermarket gauges plus if the officer thought we were speeders the officer would probally think that from the wing, or the after market exhausts not the gauges, unless he knows what they are.

 

anyway to get a further shot back of this setup?

 

Two options? Are you new around>?
1. There is more than two options. Mine just to mention one more. Perrin/Prosport Performance Gauges. I’m running Boost/EGT .
They fit perfectly. I have seeing more than 10 different options and sellers in this forum.

2. I don't agree with the fact that you need to see your gauges all the time. in fact the Pros like Sebastian Loeb, Dani Sordo, etc, they are just interested in what shift they have engaged (a little digital display on top of the dash counting from 1 to 5). There is no time or point to see your AFR.
If you run your gauges with alarms like me, you don't need to watch them all the time. Anyway, it's just my two cents
I don't like those gauges in front of my face like a catholic deity, and doubt that is even healthy to drive them at night.

3. I’m tired of talk about cops, do whatever you want. You will remember me, the next time that you will get pullover and they ask you about the gauges looking at you like a terrorist.

 

alex, if you have found "more than 10 different sellers" who offer gauge mounting options, please share. There's two i've seen that are any good (read, aren't just cups you drill into your oem peices). There's also the ghetto 'move your ac controls to glove box' one, that's ghetto as hell though. I'm not aware of any mass-produced option other than that which requires no drilling through oem peices. There's the CPE pod, and there's the a-pillar made my a forum member (I forget his name, sorry)

gauge placement is totally personal, so no argument from me there.

however, if I get pulled over and stared at like a terrorist b/c of my gauges, I got pulled over for breaking the law. gauges are not breaking the law. so unless I broke the law, he cant pull me over for my gauges, or if he does, cant give me a ticket.

in the end though, to each their own, its all in good fun :-)

 

that looks like crap imo. i took out my a/c controls and put my 3 52mm gauges in those 3 holes. looks very clean and easy to see.

 

rally drivers don't care about other gauges because they have crews to monitor all that for them...

 

agreed

 

rexspeed is coming out with a dual pillar pod shortly. He was supposed to show an example today, but it wasn't finished yet.

That is only supposed to be $70 or so. AMI does the pillar pod. He just lowered all his prices, I think those are down to $110 or so for a tripple.

CPE will probably reduce there prices now too, since the only multi option we had was the AMI pillar or this one. Both went for $200+

Wait a couple weeks, I bet it will drop drastically. These guys were first to market so they had no competition, so they could charge what they wanted.

 

rexpeed makes something similar to that but not exactly that

 

i got this. the quality is great. i will be installing this weekend.