I thought I lost these pictures when my SD card in my phone decided to wipe clean after inserting the card in a USB thumb drive. I found some from before I did the fiberglass work, that were on my camera. Here is how I made my gauge pod.
These first 2 pics are of the Lotek gauge pod and how they wanted me to cut the stock panel and mount them. Note how in the second it overlaps my speaker grill for the dash.
Well I took things into my own hads and cut the lotek pod and the dash peice a little more. Please forgive the sloppy job.
Here is where I monted the pod into the dash panel. At this point it is being held with some hot glue.
Some time later I got to actually fiberglassing the thing. Took some patience because of dry time. I filled in any gaps I had between the two peices with 5min plastic weld. After that was done I fiberglassed the enitre thing. I did 3 layers of fiberglass on the outside and inside of the dash peice. I then waited for a day for it to cure and began smoothing the outside as best I could. I used some Trunk Spatter Paint purchased from Checkerds/O'riely to get the texture. I did this 2 different times to get the texture I wanted. I than sprayed the peice with some OEM Plastic black purchased from the same place.
The result is the 2 pics below.
I could not stand the blakc. It was too glossy and didn't match the stock black at all. So I went back and bought a duplicolor flat black. This turned out well and is what you see below. The final product.
Making of a gauge pod
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I can't see pics right now but I'm going to look later when I get on my home computer. I do remember I really like the look of this pod though.
I don't really care for the ones the guy on RX7club makes, the 3 and 4 pod sets for the FD speaker grill (3rd pic). It just doesn't look right to me. I'd much rather have each pod individually mounted next to each other in a line on the dash, or get the speaker grill replacement piece that only fits two gauges since it still looks kinda stock.
I did find something from ATI though (the first two pics), which fits in the speaker grill location, and I like this a lot more. I can also get these pods individually for about $20 each. So I'm planning on getting the center piece with two pods, and I need to figure out a way to mount two more off of the center piece, you guys have any ideas on how to do that in a clean way? I also plan on using these single pods and my stock a-pillar to mount 3 pods on there in the same fashion. I plan on drilling into the a-pillar to attach the pods there, but I don't want to drill into the dash to attach those other two.
I don't really care for the ones the guy on RX7club makes, the 3 and 4 pod sets for the FD speaker grill (3rd pic). It just doesn't look right to me. I'd much rather have each pod individually mounted next to each other in a line on the dash, or get the speaker grill replacement piece that only fits two gauges since it still looks kinda stock.
I did find something from ATI though (the first two pics), which fits in the speaker grill location, and I like this a lot more. I can also get these pods individually for about $20 each. So I'm planning on getting the center piece with two pods, and I need to figure out a way to mount two more off of the center piece, you guys have any ideas on how to do that in a clean way? I also plan on using these single pods and my stock a-pillar to mount 3 pods on there in the same fashion. I plan on drilling into the a-pillar to attach the pods there, but I don't want to drill into the dash to attach those other two.
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