Here come the flames...My gauge cluster

[autoxguy305]

You can get away without removing the rear glass, just mask carefully. As far as the smell, i left the windows a 1/4 inch down over night, and after a nice 20 minute drive with all the windows open the smell was completely gone. This paint dries REALLY fast.

[Digitalwave]

Now that I think about it, when we painted my friend dash, the smell didn't linger either. Did you use the VHT vinyl/plastic dye? It really did come out very well.

[autoxguy305]

I used Dupli-Color's Vinyl & Fabric coating. P#hvp104 Gloss Black. You have to make sure to apply it in light coating on parts like headliners, otherwise it looks really shiny and not good.

[Digitalwave]

I've used the Duplicolor stuff too, its not as good as the VHT but its still really good.

[Jand3rson]

When I painted the center section of my M-Tech II wheel, I used SEM ColorCoat. It's made specifically for vinyl, plastics, cloth and carpet. I painted the wheel center and a knee bolster that I sold to Jim Warren. The bolster came out looking brand new, and my M-Tech II looks the same.

[BMW BMXER]

I like it, I would have choose a slightly smaller tach and maybe large speedo, but it looks good overall.

[Jordan]

You should paint all the silver rings around the guages black while you are at it.

[mikeedler]

I like it. I also dont understand why everyone is saying the blue is ricer??? VW and Audi are using blue. definately different, and I would do it if I had a bunch of extra money laying around. but like james said, no way in my M though.

[Eternal Rider]

its awesome i like it !!!

me dont like the orange color of original bmw gauges... when i'm tired i dont see well, and bright blue is better ( Volks blue is too dark )

how much money did you invest to do this ? with the gauges !

thx !

[Addissimo]

you should be a real man and re-do the panel in carbon fiber.

good job though, I thought about doing something like this a while back, but I was going to modify the gauges to keep amber illumination.

[Low Level E30]

Its getting there...

Post pics of the BACK of the panel - the business side, where all the action is - I want to see how you wired it and attached the gauges to the panel.

Cool project - although I don't understand why you used a 10,000 RPM tach when about 25% of that tach is of no use to you.

[asubimmer]

^^^haha b/c its FUH RAZE!!!!!!!!!!

[Digitalwave]

Who cares about the tach, I doubt any aftermarket companies make tachs that end at 7 or 8k.

[e30sd]

guage alert

[Low Level E30]

Who cares about the tach, I doubt any aftermarket companies make tachs that end at 7 or 8k.

What, like this one?

http://www.autometer.com/cat_gaugede...gid=2468&sid=1

Why install a big tach when a large amount of the face is not usable? You lose the precision that you should gain by using a larger face. A zero sum gain install.

But a cool project, had the gauges been correctly chosen.