Finally got all the gauges working correctly: 11 quarts of oil takes forever to warm up & had a bad sender for my water temp. This will be SO fun at TWS.

Mark

 

That looks real sharp mark. You need to share the rest of the car with this crowd.

 

Looks good.

 

Sweeet

 

I'll have more photos/videos this weekend.

PS: buttons on the steering wheel are both scramble-boost: press the button, have your "high boost" setting for a set number of seconds (adjustable), like for passing on the straights. Neat stuff.

 

Sean,

Here's a pic of one of Mark's mechanics working on his car!

 

Howard, you Austin guys have all the damn fun.

 

Mark, you seriously gotta stop using that camera phone for pics. They're always fuzzy man!

 

Hot Chocolate. Hey does your helper travel to DC much..

 

Agreed: iPhones take the worst photos...at least my highly-abused one does. :/

 

those gauges look perfect in there , nice 928 BTW

 

Very nice. Would you mind sharing more details with us?

Have been thinking of doing something similar to my 928 GTS, but haven't seen yet a way within the confines of the stock instrument pod (perhaps that is the problem!).

MN

 

Sure, I designed the layout based on the actual gauge size per www.speedhut.com: where you can have any gauge built to mimic whatever theme you're onto: for me it was a German-based 599 layout, using the peak-hold gauges & fonts, colors common to 928's. My diagram is not exactly what I did: I have oil pressure, oil temp & water temp, where I decided to delete the volt meter & decided to place the fuel, Air/fuel, Wideband O2, Boost gauge & Boost controller in my center console. Scramble boost remains on the steering wheel. I could easily design a cluster to fit inside the stock pod, just chose to go even lighter with the race car.

Gauges are set in laser-cut sheet of 3/32" thick aluminum, covered in suede, bolted to the two tabs that secure the gauge pod to the steering column. Top is Bent, formed Lexan covered in suede as well. The whole thing was well under 1k. I used Speedhut's sensors for all: water temp (at the water neck), oil temp (at the oil pan) & oil pressure where the old sender was.

The red lights on the gauges can be turned off or down (4 different settings), and indicate(s) that the gauge is reading a condition other than "ready to race". Oil pressure too high or low, oil temp too low (or high), same with water, vacuum, boost, etc., so you set the upper/lower warning lights & of course while just starting the car up, all gauges are showing red LED's showing you're not ready to go out on the course yet.

 

Seen it in person. Looks really nice!

 

Mark:

Thanks for the reply.

Did you do the work yourself or did you had it made by somebody else?
(Anyone you could recommend for this type of work?)

As you probably noticed from my avatar, I got 914 style instrument panel (PORSCHE 930 Tachometer, PORSCHE 944 Speedometer, and PORSCHE 924S Combination Gauge) in my 944. However, this turned out to be very expensive and involved.

MN