Show me your gauges

[rallye dale]

After pics of where you've put your gauges, also pics of rev counters mounted dash top or in the speedo housing

 

[toxicbug66]

Oil pressure and temp on the shelf. Tried loads of places but this is the one that best for me.

 

[rallye dale]

Come on

 

[Gütterßnipe]

Here's my 1980's Sunpro "Drag'n Tach" that
I got off eBay a couple of years back for $15
Works a treat and looks the bollocks!

Spence

 

[krusty]

my bad boy!

 

[paul_q]

 

[creationblue]

Here is my Faze, looks well cool at night

 

[D@VEY]

Few here.
vvvvvvvv
http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37846" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[sharky71]

ok ....silly question but how do you fit/fix the rev counter then??
are they hard to do?

 

[creationblue]

you need a cable from the coil, and the rest are simple connections under the dash

 

[naskeet]

Here are some of mine at the moment, but I am liable at sometime in the future, to substitute a three-piece, custom instrument binnacle, in place of this and the factory-fitted instrument binnacle.

Home-made, aluminium, gauge panel, which fits in the centre of my 1973 VW Type 2 dashboard. Shown in the picture, are a 52 mm diameter, black plastic blanking plate (VW-Audi part No. 841 863 267), providing a future vacancy for an ammeter and the following 52 mm diameter, VDO Cockpit gauges: 8~16V voltmeter, –25~40 ºC ambient air temperature gauge with frost warning light, 50~150 ºC oil-temperature gauge, 0~5 BAR oil-pressure gauge and 50~300 ºC cylinder-head temperature gauge.

Notice also, in the location normally filled by the centre-dashboard ash tray, a home-made aluminium panel, with six, square-section, push-button switches (salvaged from a Citroën Visa car).

Here's an interesting gauge:

On the right-hand side of the instrument panel, retro-fitted by Jürgen Bolle, to a German specification, Deutches Bundeswehr (i.e. German Army), 1972 VW 1600 Type 2 Kombi, is an ONG (i.e. Okaser Nöte Gard) brand, combined 250~6500 rpm tachometer & colour-zoned oil-temperature indicator (appears to have blue, green & red coloured zones, indicating cold, normal & hot), of identical style, to that of the stock, factory-fitted, VDO speedometer and combined fuel gauge & warning-light cluster.

For anyone seeking to maintain a stock, unmodified appearance, to their vehicle, this would be an ideal way of gaining the advantages of supplementary instrumentation. I conducted an Internet search for ONG instruments or gauges, to find out more about the company, but drew a blank. Perhaps one of you might have more luck!?!

 

[Marvel]

Nigel, that is some display panel you have there :shock:
You sure you need all those gauges? NIgel should now be known as a gauge-whore!! :lol:

 

[Dirty Harry]

Here is my setup, tacho is on the steering column.

 

[Trikky2]

Heres some

 

[*Sam*]

Here is my setup, tacho is on the steering column.


That looks brilliant nice balance, what make is the tacho if you don't mind me asking

 

[Dirty Harry]

Thanks!!
All the gauges are vintage seventies VDO

 

[Marvel]

Very good Trikky :lol:

 

[naskeet]

Nigel, that is some display panel you have there :shock:
You sure you need all those gauges? NIgel should now be known as a gauge-whore!! :lol:

That's just the start! :lol:

The gauges & warning lights, I have available at present, are:

80 mm VDO Cockpit, dual-scale (i.e. mph & km/h), accessory speedometer, with trip odometer
80 mm VDO Cockpit, 400~7000 rpm, ignition-sensed tachometer

60 mm Lucas, 8-segment, warning-light clusters (2 off)

52 mm VDO Cockpit, 0~5 Bar oil-pressure gauge
52 mm VDO Cockpit, 50~150 ºC oil-temperature gauge
52 mm VDO Cockpit, 40~120 ºC water-temperature gauge
52 mm VDO Cockpit, 50~300 ºC cylinder-head-temperature gauge
52 mm VDO Cockpit, -25~0~45 ºC ambient-air-temperature gauge, with integral frost-warning light
52 mm VDO Cockpit, 8~16 V voltmeter (ex 1984 VW Golf)
52 mm VDO Cockpit, quartz time clock (ex VW Scirocco)
52 mm VDO Cockpit, fuel-level gauge / indicator (dip-pipe type)

52 mm VDO Cockpit "Night-Design", 0~6000 rpm, alternator-sensed tachometer

52 mm Time Instruments, 0~30 in.Hg inlet-manifold vacuum gauge

52 mm Lucas, -30~0~30 A internal-shunt ammeter
52 mm Lucas-CAV, -60~0~60 A internal-shunt ammeter


80 mm VDO Cockpit, 400~7000 rpm tachometer, similar if not identical, to the one I have

52 mm VDO Cockpit, 50~150 ºC oil temperature & 0~5 Bar oil-pressure gauges

52mm VDO Cockpit, -25~0~40 ºC ambient-air-temperature & 50~300 ºC cylinder-head temperature gauges

52 mm VDO Cockpit, quartz clock & fuel-level indicator

52 mm VDO Cockpit, 0~16 V [SOLD] & 8~16 V voltmeters

52 mm VDO Cockpit, -1•0~0~1•5 Bar turbo-boost [SOLD] & 40~120 ºC water-temperature gauges

52 mm Time Instruments, inlet-manifold vacuum gauge & 52 mm VDO Cockpit "Night Design" 0~6000 rpm alternator-sensing tachometer

The VDO Cocpit gauges I seek, as either first-time acquisitions, or as replacements for non-VDO Cockpit instruments, are:

52 mm VDO Cockpit, 0~6000 rpm, alternator-sensed or ignition-sensed tachometer
52 mm VDO International Cockpit, 0~900 ºC exhaust-gas-temperature gauge
52 mm VDO Cockpit, -60~0~60 A external-remote-shunt ammeter
52 mm VDO Cockpit, 0~30 in.Hg inlet-manifold vacuum gauge


52 mm VDO Cockpit, 0~30 in.Hg inlet-manifold vacuum gauge

http://www.egauges.com/vdo_mult.asp?Type=Vacuum&Series=Cockpit&Units=E" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


52 mm VDO Cockpit, -60~0~60 A internal-shunt ammeter

There don't seem to be any low-current range (i.e. -30~0~30 A, -50~0~50 A or -60~0~60 A) ammeters, with external remote shunts, in the 52 mm VDO Cockpit, Profi Cockpit, Black Cockpit or International Cockpit series. Hence, I have in mind to obtain a VDO Cockpit internal-shunt ammeter, from which it should hopefully be possible, to remove the internal shunt-resistor and convert it to remote-external-shunt operation.

 

[Trikky2]

OMG - with all that you will need stock front suspension for the lowered look :lol:

 

[68_early_bay]

Here's an interesting gauge:

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That looks brilliant 8) 8) 8)