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My new gauges!
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:26 pm
by Ajay
Hello everyone!
just thought i would show you one of my X-mas Pressies!!
3 guages (EL blue background to match the dash) i chose these ones because as most of you know i am addicted to chrome and these came with bling rings!..
i also got the DIN mount for the gauges.. and i think it looks quite nice in there the gauges are angled toward me
while i had the dash apart i mounted the head unit flush with the dash (instead of my early dodgy atempt) and re-sprayed the surround black (it was originally silver)
come up quite nice.. unfortunatly the gauges arent wired yet.. im not mechanically minded.. so Daniel at mania will be doing this for me
hope you like
Cheers
Ajay
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:22 am
by RG.net
looking good there ajay!!! gota see that in the flesh, i'm still in the process of finishing mine up ( cant remember if you saw them or not)
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:17 am
by Steampunk
I can't see the gauges ... is it anywhere near all the glare from the bling?
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:04 pm
by Ajay
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:05 pm
by Ajay
Crocaine wrote:looking good there ajay!!! gota see that in the flesh, i'm still in the process of finishing mine up ( cant remember if you saw them or not)
yeah man i saw your ones when you popped in!.. im sure ill see you again soon to show you.. how is the polishing going??
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:21 pm
by RG.net
TP13SS wrote:Crocaine wrote:looking good there ajay!!! gota see that in the flesh, i'm still in the process of finishing mine up ( cant remember if you saw them or not)
yeah man i saw your ones when you popped in!.. im sure ill see you again soon to show you.. how is the polishing going??
the polishing is going ok, but i havent had much time to do it lately, plan to finish up the rocker cover on monday, i got a new number too, i lost my old phone and all my numbers, i'll pm it too you
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:04 pm
by Ajay
no worries!!
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:53 pm
by hamish71
where did the DIN gauge mount come from?
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Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:13 pm
by Juffa
hamish71 wrote:where did the DIN gauge mount come from?
It looks similar to one I bought via Auto Barn. Cost me around $30 I think.
J
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:52 pm
by Ajay
its just an autometer one.. i think i paid about $30 got it from uk.. didnt know they had them at autobarn!!
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:48 pm
by TieNN89
whats the gauge on the left show?
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:52 pm
by AJ
AZNTieN wrote:whats the gauge on the left show?
i'd say oil or water temp............probably water temp.........if you look on the bottom right of that gauge it shows a red Farenheit symbol (for the inner red writing on the gauge).......middle one is vacuum & right one is oil pressure
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:37 pm
by TieNN89
AJ wrote:AZNTieN wrote:whats the gauge on the left show?
i'd say oil or water temp............probably water temp.........if you look on the bottom right of that gauge it shows a red Farenheit symbol (for the inner red writing on the gauge).......middle one is vacuum & right one is oil pressure
isn't the right one a volt one
just wondering
how come i've seen people put oil pressure in there mx5 even tho they got one in front of them already
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Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 5:56 pm
by AJ
AZNTieN wrote:AJ wrote:AZNTieN wrote:whats the gauge on the left show?
i'd say oil or water temp............probably water temp.........if you look on the bottom right of that gauge it shows a red Farenheit symbol (for the inner red writing on the gauge).......middle one is vacuum & right one is oil pressure
isn't the right one a volt one
just wondering
how come i've seen people put oil pressure in there mx5 even tho they got one in front of them already
actually, yeah you could be right about that r/hand gauge
with the oil pressure thing............i think the NA6/8's had a proper oil press gauge, but the yanks were terrified of them because they moved up & down with the revs of the car
.......so Mazda shut 'em up by putting an idiot gauge in the NB's that went halfway up the gauge & stayed there, no matter what rpm the engine was at.........the yanks were mighty relieved to have a "proper" gauge that stayed in the one spot, which meant their oil pressure did too
.......everyone else was pissed off about it but
PS: NC's have a gauge that moves up & down with the engine RPM, thank christ.........they musta trained the yanks
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:39 pm
by TieNN89
my one stays at one place as well
so in other words its very slow at updating or its fake
do the nb have a low engine oil light or is the gauge there to replace it
