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Yet another dash restoration.... New gauges!


MidnightRider

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Not a lot to say on this write up, but I have a lot of pictures. The dash restoration was pretty straight forward, it just took me from spring break to graduation. I backed the cracks with tape, then filled them with gorilla glue. I also sealed up the smaller cracks with the clear type of gorilla glue. Next I used flexible UV activated Bondo all across the top of the dash. The UV Bondo was rubbery and not really that good so I used a better Bondo on all the little imperfections once I got the shape how I wanted it. Finally, sprayed the whole thing with some truck bed liner. I got everything I needed from NAPA.

 

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Next I'm doing a custom headliner. Expect to see more of my Z over this summer, trying to get a lot done before I go off to college. If anyone knows there I can find Rayven14 who sells the carbon fiber door pulls and fiberglass door panels at, I would really like to get those with my next paycheck.. now that I can work full time.

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The dash came out nice.

One tip that I did was to use only 2-3 screws to hold it on the metal frame to prevent it from cracking again.

The gauges themself will hold it to the metal frame and once mounted it is not going anywhere.

 

ritrebor

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Wow that came out NICE considering how bad it was , what brand of gauges are those I really like that tach and speedo.

 

What sizes are your gauges?

 

They're 4" Speedhut gauges. You pick out what you want and they make it, pretty sweet deal.. but very expensive. They were exactly $495 for the set. I opted to spend the extra cash because I was able to keep my turn signal indicators, high beam indicator, and having a fuel level gauge built in solved the problem of where to put that. As for a bonus GPS speed signal makes calibration easy! When I saw they have a lifetime warranty standard I was sold knowing the nature of gauges in general. If anyone has any information on how to wire the tach up I'd appreciate it. I know Speedhut gauges have been done on s30's before but what I don't know is whether they used an aftermarket sensor or were wired up to the stock sensor somehow.

 

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The smaller gauges are 52mm Prosport Evo's: Water Temp, Volts, & Oil Pressure.

They'll be wired up so that they're red in the day time, then blue at night to match the speedo and tach (which light up cobalt blue when backlit)

 

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