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Old 10-18-2013, 09:52 PM
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thought i would share my diy gauge customization. I tweaked the layout myself and spent about 3 hours laying these out using microsoft visio and printed them on digital photo paper at walgreens. cut them out and applied with double sided tape. counting my screw ups, I spent about $3.


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Old 10-18-2013, 10:40 PM
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nice job, the 120 would drive me nuts though but excellent job none the less.
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Why yellow? Why that weird font? And yeah the "12-0mph" isn't very clean.

Just saying, if I bought the car from you I'd ask about going back to stock.
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Besides the 120 that would drive me off a cliff, very neat
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my plans are/were/still are to hybridize a late 944 dash with a 996 cluster cover and re-cover in leather.

the problem is the 996 instruments which work off their late '90s 911 can-bus interface.

one seriously unfriendly clusterf_ck for N. Hollywood Speedometer to untangle.


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Originally Posted by CyCloNe!
nice job, the 120 would drive me nuts though but excellent job none the less.
Holy crap! how did I miss the 120!!!!??? I'll fix that first thing in the morning! how embarrassing :-0

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Originally Posted by Reimu
Why yellow? Why that weird font? And yeah the "12-0mph" isn't very clean. Just saying, if I bought the car from you I'd ask about going back to stock.
I saw yellow somewhere and liked it. I'll see how Ilike it and maybe try something else. $2 and about an hour and I can change all 4.

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If it was white it would be very cool
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Can you still see the warning lights when they come on? ...and won't the heat from the shift light just melt the adhesive right off?
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I think they're awesome. With a yellow backing you won't be able to see the annoying shift light.
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I personally would prefer a crest on the water temp and 944 on the voltmeter and thats it.

Very nice job! I love DIY mods
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sweet. I use visio for IT designs and would love the file even though my gauge setup for 987 are drastically different. Nice work BTW!
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no worries man.. its an easy fix...a very small detail that happens alot when you get pumped about a cool design. great work man
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sweet. I use visio for IT designs and would love the file even though my gauge setup for 987 are drastically different. Nice work BTW!
i'll send you the visio file sometime this weekend. made a few mods,

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Originally Posted by MAGK944
Can you still see the warning lights when they come on? ...and won't the heat from the shift light just melt the adhesive right off?
there are only a couple of those lights that are worth much, i can still see the "!". I'll prob just pull out the shift light bulb, i dont need it to tell me when to shift. :-)

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