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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:06 AM
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Custom Triple Gauge A Pillar!

Sometimes if you want something done right...you have to do it yourself.

I got tired of waiting on companies to produce the triple gauge pillar pods I wanted and finally bought some gauges and needed a good mounting solution that was clean. So...my buddy and I got to work fabbing a triple gauge a pillar pod from a different pillar pod I had onto a spare evo x a pillar. Here are the results thus far, we have sanded lots but need to sand a bit more still and then add final primer and paint but it's come a long way so far and the angle is perfect in the car. ~Trent
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:07 AM
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more pics. Hopefully we will get this finished up and installed in the car by Thursday night with my new wideband installed as well.
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:34 AM
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Dude that looks really nice. Sometimes you do have to take matters in to your own hands.

Are those 60mm? Do you think your going to lose some visibilty with them at all?
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:37 AM
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Hope that bondo holds three gauges without cranking on you. Should have glassed it, anyway nice job.
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 01:40 AM
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They are 52mm openings. I shouldn't lose visibiliy at all from the angle they are set at.

It's been epoxyed to the stock pillar also so I'm not worried about the bondo for the most part because it shouldn't be flexing that much.
~Trent

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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 05:28 AM
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Looks great, I dont think they will move since you used epoxy. Reminds me of something! whats going in the pods: boost, a/f,________?
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 05:31 AM
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that looks really good, well done
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 05:59 AM
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good job trent, hey plans changed and it looks like im bringing the EVO back to Lubbock till the end of the semester lol
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 07:00 AM
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very nice and clean job. looks OEM. what gauges you putting in?
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Old Mar 19, 2009 | 10:09 AM
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Boost, EGT, and Wideband Air Fuel or move my wideband and then have Oil Pressure on the pillar with the other two.
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Old May 31, 2009 | 11:00 PM
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where did you get the pods from? i went to pepboys and saw their apc 3 gauge pods but the spacing between each pod is too wide.
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Old Jun 1, 2009 | 05:53 AM
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very nice!
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 09:31 AM
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The pod was out of my old F150 then heavily modified, I liked the angle we were able to achieve with this modified pod better than the angles I've seen with the APC and other random pods that have been modded thus far.
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Old Jun 9, 2009 | 10:16 AM
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any pics of the pillar installed in the car?
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Old Jun 11, 2009 | 02:49 AM
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just found out the airbag is only at the top of the a-piller now i can do gauges w/o having to worry bout gauges being thrown in my face...
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