Building my own dash cluster and looking for advice and tips from ppl who have done it

[McLEVIN]

thats what the one i posted is. here is a kit for s2000 dash

[Matt]

Yep has to be wired from scratch, electronic speedo sender was used too on that dash.

is where the build thread is located, a 2zzgte into an ae82 sedan.

[Mirko]

No luck at all finding it matt

[Mirko]

scap that had to create account to find it thanks again matt

[cha54]

pic of the finished cluster I built:



It's a 3mm steel plate I had laser cut, welded posts to the rear to mount it to the back white plastic housing of an original cluster, made housings and LED holders for the warning/turn lights etc. All speedhut gauges from the US

[drift kid]

Fark, why 3mm? Looks sick man but a little overkill

[Mirko]

That's off tap can u post pic of back as well. what did laser cut cost u

[ae8zn6]

I am looking at doing something very similar with speedhut gauges at the moment. For those of you that haven't had a look at them they will basically make whatever gauge face you want... as in whatever you want...

I am planning on making my gauges look as similar as possible to my Pivot tacho

How do you find the actual quality and accuracy of the gauges Jason?

[cha54]

it's 3mm as the plate has recesses milled 2mm into it to accept the warning light acrylics for the turn signals/warning lights. Was somewhere between $15 and 30 to get cut, I can't remember as I had it done with a batch of 2J and 2zz flanges.

Back shot of the plate with additional housings and mounting posts:


Gutted plastic housing with plate bolted in:



And a shit photo trying to show the lighting:


The gauges are great quality IMO, would be better if they used smaller gauge wiring though as when you have so many together the loom gets a bit bulky.

[drift kid]

Oh fair enough man, looks great