Aftermarket Guage Placement

yep! and thanks...frank...

the "red" light in the center is the "shift light".

 

Thanks, Maverick Man...

 

Here's Mine

Simple, but practical. (Hope the pic uploaded)

 

gauges?,, we dont need no stinking gauges

 

Here's mine, don't mind the dust, still under reconstruction.
The fuel gauge is in the left of the pic, back of the directional switch.

 

Did you just use a hole saw to cut through the metal dash? How are the guages fastened in place?

 

Reposting missing pics

Once again,

 

he just put them where the "bullet" hole were. ...frank...

 

gunslinger68 what kind of tach is that i like the location size and such stuff how much mod did you have to do to get it to fit in there.

 

It's an Autometer sport-comp, 3 3/8 inch??? . The cluster has to be out for one. I took the cluster apart, removing the metal face on that side. I had to cut the plastic on the back side of the cluster(cut less now, you can always cut more later if needed), so the tach would be able to go back far enough to sit behind the clear plastic. The usual fit and re-fit till I was satisfied with it.
I used LED lights from Radio Shack for the turn signal indicators, it took some time to find out what part of the wiring on the back of the cluster works those, I did put the LED's in the wrong spot though, they are on the outside of the gauge faces, in the black area, when your sitting in a normal position, it is hard to see them past the steering wheel. In the middle of the two openings would have been better.
I was already going to use a different fuel gauge, so that was no big deal. Not too hard to do, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a better way to do it , but it worked for me.
I may be a little light on the details, but it was a few years ago, and I didn't think of taking pics of what I was doing.

 

here's how I mounted mine.........

 

Those look great!
Ward has them in his car as well....I am thinking of doing that to the yellow mav

 

I know you guys are looking for street type installs, but here is mine anyways

I just moved the tach to the steering column this weekend. Going to try it there for a while. Also the fuel pressure gauge on the cowl is not hooked up

 

Gene; I did have to use two hole saws, one 2 1/2", one 3 1/4", and a grinder to tweak the holes until the gauges fit at an angle. I later used the offset bezels for the Autometer gauges. Like I said, the dash was badly cut up when I got the car. I wouldn't recommend cutting the dash unless necessary, but if you do, use the 2 1/16" gauges, and put the tach elsewhere. The gauges are easy to read, and look ok, but the structural integrity of the dash is in question. Also, if you do this, space them a bit farther apart, for strength. I mounted the gauges with the brackets in the gauge kit, and had to shorten one side to get the angle I wanted. Hope this helps out. Take care,

Earl

 

heres mine still need to put the volt gauge in