A "true" overlay guage change, blue needles, chrome bezel, white turn signals arrows:

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Old Feb 28, 2010 | 11:44 PM
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Default A "true" overlay guage change, blue needles, chrome bezel, white turn signals arrows:

These pics don't do real justice. But I love it!!! And yes, I know the gas needle is waaay down there but its only actually only off 1/8 of tank when you turn on the car... in my favor so no biggie and I plan on fixing it.

...Oh and some of the pics suck but I will be taking better ones later on








Here's the old set up.....





Look at all those "busy" colors....






....the new stuff....


















And at night with the blue LED's



Cant really see it in the pic but the turn signal arrows are White LED's...






Blinker's and cluster both on





Next week the plan is to change the blue to white and the white bulbs to blue just to test it out. I also need to repaint the temp needle hub its kinda messy. I am also going to install the mileage trip stick thingy which I left out on purpose.

The hardest part of all of this is painting those damn hubs because you really cant touch them for at least 8 hours and even then the chrome paint fades when touched...so i had to use latex gloves. and resetting the speed and gas needles sux!!!!!!

I think this look is much cleaner and far less busy and I couldnt be happier.
 
Old Feb 28, 2010 | 11:58 PM
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wow that matches your car really nice. great job.
 
Old Mar 1, 2010 | 01:52 AM
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Ooo, that looks nice. Is that from 6litereater? How do you reset the needles?
 
Old Mar 1, 2010 | 03:17 AM
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nice one dude looks good
 
Old Mar 1, 2010 | 10:12 AM
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love the chrome look, as well as the window button accents and the chevy insignia on a wheel!
 
Old Mar 1, 2010 | 08:15 PM
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I love how it matches the rest of the car. Never seen anything like that before. Very nice.
 
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 07:01 PM
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Zoilus! I want you to fix up my gauges too... Lol
 
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by evilkal
Zoilus! I want you to fix up my gauges too... Lol
Ha no problem....but I think you are going to have to come to me!! lol


thanks guys for the words

and darlingreject... by reseting I mean removing the needles and keep setting them at different positions until they read and rest 100% correct again. altho they are not that off now at all and its only the speed and gas ones that are slightly off anyway.
 
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:01 PM
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Very Badass!!
 
Old Mar 2, 2010 | 10:46 PM
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That's way cool, did an excellent job.
 



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