Holy Gauges, Batman! ...and fuel holding devices too!...

[oneandgone]

I finally finished my gauge cluster yesterday so I took a couple pics for you guys. The car is filthy-dirty from sitting all winter, and from having work done on it so forgive me for not cleaning it before taking the pics. Almost forgot...I installed the new wheel yesterday too.

I also took a couple of the fuel cell since I never posted any finished pics when I did it.

I could :blah: , but why should I? I'll let the pics speak for themselves.

[oneandgone]

Fuel Cell...

[Loki]

Wow! that is alot of gauges! looks good.

[oldskool-nick]

Wow!

Grant = My hero

Awesome job man! Glad to see it turned out so well. What ever became of the steering column gauge holder? Any night pics? Damn, that wiring must have been quite a bit of fun. 14 gauges, correct? Keep up the good work. Amazing job as always!

-Nick

[doom26464]

I think flying a jet would be easier then driving your car lol.... anyways nice setup

[xffe]

I take it for the fuel cell the entire back area was chopped down so it sits level in the hatch area? looks that way. Sorry I've never looked at fuel cell setups so i've no idea, I was actually looking into something similar.

[IJ.]

To paraphrase Nick... WOW! ;)

[streetknight]

wow bro you have no excuse if you blow your engine. you should know every thing your car is doing with that many gauges. better get a copilot to pay attention to the road while you read all those gauges.

[supraswole89]

very sweet, can't wait to see this in person!!!
JACKSON,TN SUPRAS REPRESENTING!

[suprarcr89]

all I can say is awesome work.
looks great grant....

[IJ.]

Where are the aircon vents? ;) ;) ;)!

[alloyguitar]

MMMMM CARBON FIBER!!!!!!!! :crazy1: seriously though, i love all the carbon fiber you have going on, very nice man....

[Idealsupra]

arent hose gauges hard to read with that carbon fiber overlay in them? looks pretty sweet and awesome job with the custom work :D

what i want to know...is what all the lights do...tell me now! ;)

[MisterTurbineTwister]

I see the cause for the following gauges on a fully metered car, but what are the other 5 gauges doing???:

Tachometer
Speedometer/Odometer/Tripometer
Fuel level
Fuel Pressure
Air/Fuel Ratio
Oil Pressure
Temperature
Voltmeter
Boost meter

What else could there be?
Antifreeze/Coolant level
Exhaust Gas Temperature
Clock and a
Blingometer?

What do all of those wonkameters tell you when you're driving?
Barometer, outside ambient air temp, windchill factor, horizon level, altitude, downforce, cholesterol, bloodsugar, sex appeal, weapon skill and the current progress with your girl friend?

Criminey! Good work though!

[Paradox]

thats goddamn awesome. always wanted to see it done cleanly, and thats a damn fine example!

kudos to you man

[Race Bred]

Innovative, I like it!

[oneandgone]

Let me start by saying thanks to all of you guys for the kind words. I really appreciate it!!

Wow!

Grant = My hero

Awesome job man! Glad to see it turned out so well. What ever became of the steering column gauge holder? Any night pics? Damn, that wiring must have been quite a bit of fun. 14 gauges, correct? Keep up the good work. Amazing job as always!

-Nick

Nick, I haven't had a chance to take night pics yet. I will though. I'm didn't like the green bulb covers so I'm using red ones...I may switch to blue though. There are 13 gauges total. The steering column pod went up fs on ebay quite a while back, and did fairly well. I never even used is, it only ended up on the car for pics.

I take it for the fuel cell the entire back area was chopped down so it sits level in the hatch area? looks that way. Sorry I've never looked at fuel cell setups so i've no idea, I was actually looking into something similar.

Correct. I gut out the floor from the x-member back to the rear body panel, then from the inside of the left rail to the inside of the right rail. There is a peice of aluminum that attaches to the bottom of each framerail, the sump drops below it, but the rest of the cell bottom is at the same height as the bottom of the rails. There is then another peice of aluminum on top of the rails which the cell passes through on it's way up. I have some "in progress" pics I'll try to post later. I'll pm you when I do.


Where are the aircon vents? ;) ;) ;)!

:thefinger I really can't beleive it wasn't asked by anyone else, and I know why you did!! lol! I haven't had A/C in about 2 years, and I don't drive in the winter so the heat is very rarely used either. Thus, they got the axe. I thought about getting some round vents, like for the street rod guys, but figured what's the point.


arent hose gauges hard to read with that carbon fiber overlay in them? looks pretty sweet and awesome job with the custom work :D

what i want to know...is what all the lights do...tell me now! ;)

No, they're pretty easy to read. The hard part right now is remembering which gauge is where! It's going to take a bit of time to get used to, but should be no trouble in the long run. The blue lights in the middle are for the turn signals and the brights. The ones on the left are for low coolant, mil, and alt.


I see the cause for the following gauges on a fully metered car, but what are the other 5 gauges doing???:

Tachometer
Speedometer/Odometer/Tripometer
Fuel level
Fuel Pressure
Air/Fuel Ratio
Oil Pressure
Temperature
Voltmeter
Boost meter

What else could there be?
Antifreeze/Coolant level
Exhaust Gas Temperature
Clock and a
Blingometer?

What do all of those wonkameters tell you when you're driving?
Barometer, outside ambient air temp, windchill factor, horizon level, altitude, downforce, cholesterol, bloodsugar, sex appeal, weapon skill and the current progress with your girl friend?

Criminey! Good work though!

Gotta say I got a nice laugh from your post! I put basically every gauge there I could possibly ever need except nitrous. I have no intentions of running nos, and I wasn't about to put one in there and look gay without having a bottle. Here's the rundown on the gauges...

Tach.........
Speedo.........
UEGO...............
Fuel Level............
Fuel Pressure...........
Oil Pressure.................
Oil Temp........................Beleive it or not, that's all off the top of my head!
Trans Temp.................
IAT..........................
EGT........................
Boost..................
Voltmeter..........
Water Temp...

No clock, no nos.

[IJ.]

Grant: LOL after our convo on PM how could I not ! ;)

[Paradox]

whatta you figure it cost for all those gauges?

[FinalRights]

How hard was the wiring,and did you use the TSRM as a refrence?

[Blue87T(Dan)]

That is cool and functional. I could easly live with something like that but in my case air is a must.

Very nice job. Hope to see it in person sometime this year.

Dan

[oneandgone]

whatta you figure it cost for all those gauges?

You don't wanna know! lol!

How hard was the wiring,and did you use the TSRM as a refrence?

Well, to be honest I had some help with the wiring. All of the gauges aside from boost are electric. I made a simple harness for the ones that I couldn't use the stock wiring for. The rest were run from extensions from the wiring in the dash, which all run to connectors. Then there's another harness that Carl (Speed-Source) made for the cluster itself. The whole unit will unplug with 4 connectors. I have a Toyota wiring diagram, without which this would've been practically impossible.

That is cool and functional. I could easly live with something like that but in my case air is a must.

Very nice job. Hope to see it in person sometime this year.

Dan

Dan, you could keep the a/c, but you'll lose 2 gauges. I guess that's not really a big deal with this many though, eh?! Just get some of the round street rod style a/c vents that match your gauges. :sonic:

[Satan]

I'm looking to do something similar, but will need to keep the portion that has the check engine light.... Fing inspections!

Awesome job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lenny]

Good stuff ;-)

[kylemartin]

with Super Carl on your side nothing is impossible! looks nice!

[MKIIINA]

you dont have a enought guages ;)

[oneandgone]

with Super Carl on your side nothing is impossible! looks nice!

Heh, you know Carl, eh?! Are you the guy with the SC MKI? We're planning to have a meet at Speed-Source soon. You should come!!

[kylemartin]

Heh, you know Carl, eh?! Are you the guy with the SC MKI? We're planning to have a meet at Speed-Source soon. You should come!!

ya i bought Adams 88 SC

when you having the meet, ill be there

[oneandgone]

Great, glad to hear you'll come and so is Carl!! I just spoke with him on the phone and emailed him a list of all the local events that I know of. He's going to check into the MR2 events, and then set a date accordingly. He said he wants to have it nailed down this week. I'll be sure to make a post on it and probably send out some pm's also.

Do you talk to Wes Boege? I don't see him posting anymore and haven't talked to him for a long while...Does he still have the Supra? He should come too, along with any other Toyota owners in your area. Heh, we'd probably even let some Hondas and Mitsu's come. :p lol! Really though, we will. There are some from here that I'm sure will be there.

[kylemartin]

cool, ya Wes is my bro.. we just installed some 550's and lexas afm, boost controller, Safc...... he is spoused to be getting it tuned soon, so im sure he will be down for the meet.

[oneandgone]

Glad to hear Wes still has the Supra. I'll be sure you guys know as soon as a date is set.

[supraman7mgte]

now THATS what i call too much information...

[Shinobu]

Nice setup. It reminds me of this bad ass setup I saw inside of a JP MKIII a while back. Here are some pics:

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/wetoddimage.wtdr/wODk5NzE0NnM0MTNkZmQzMXk1NDE%3D.jpg

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/wetoddimage.wtdr/wODk5NzE1NnM0MTNkZmQzMXk1NDE%3D.jpg

[SupraOfDoom]

Grant, very nice. I wish I could have seen your car when I met you. But you better get used to another sick Supra not to far from you soon. ^^

[oneandgone]

Thanks mang. All I can say is it's about time someone around here builds a nice car. A guy I work with is elbow deep into building a badass supe right now too. I can't wait till they're both done!