Center Vent Gauge Install

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  1. mrskydog

    mrskydog Ford Fan Living The Dream

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    This Weekend started to toy with the idea of mounting my Gauges inplace of the Center Vent. I took out the Vent and used a Tile Cutter to carve up the plastic. Made it simple with 2" PVC. I retained all the Vent mounting parts so it snaps back in. I went with AutoMeter 2" carbon fiber Gauges. Not finished with it yet,I need to finish off the back,and complete paint and fit.
    Heres a few Pics, what ya think?[​IMG] maverick_gauge_cluster-10_original.jpg maverick_gauge_cluster-06_original.jpg [​IMG] maverick_gauge_cluster-14_original.jpg
     
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    car-nut Glenn

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    Great use of the space.:thumbs2:
     
  3. Jamie Miles

    Jamie Miles the road warrior

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    Nice!! The few times I've seen the gauges put there before, it just looked like a quickly done hack job... so I was skeptical of how it would turn out while reading that other thread. But it looks great!
     
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    dude looks great im going to put gauges there just didnt know how but pvc makes so much sense and using the vent to hold it all
     
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    sgaugeguy Bob Kraus

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    Looks like the begining of a GOOD TECH Article !!!
     
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    actionrpm Differential specialist

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    Nice job! Great idea!
     
  7. Mad Goon

    Mad Goon Scaring the Hondas

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    Hmmm... I like it! I'm gonna gonna look into doing something similar to this!
     

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