Show me your gauges....

[Erick]

Best place, IMO. Covers the lower portion of the speedometer.

[cahomey]

Those two on the a-piller look pretty good.

3 in the ashtray is enough for me right now.

[golde30]

Best place, IMO. Covers the lower portion of the speedometer.

that looks like how i have my boost gauge setup in my datsun.:pimp:

[KangamangusDriver]

I am placing an oil psi gauge down by the shifter too~ it will be kind of attached to the bottom of the hvac panal so it doesnt get in the way of my food/cig/phone storage area.

The gauges in the pillar are boost/vac and egt.

My brother and I have been fabbing up some one piece Carbon fiber A pillar covers for the E30.

We are working on desinging a one piece a-pillar cover with guage pods built into it out of carbon fiber. Final design will not be done with for a few weeks/months.

[Fidhle007]

Dude, let me know when it is done, I'd love to rock some carbon A pillar gauge hotness on my e30!

[Lance Racing]

Depends on the use

Agreed with RCWells on placement. On a street car, no worries being low. That's how I have mine in my street E30.

But on my E30 race car, I have them higher, where I can see them easier. I literally check them two times every lap. Note how I color coded each dial so I can quickly look at the 3 dials, and if I see the needle is in the green, then I know the engine is OK. Without the color coding, you have to actually read each dial, remember what good and bad numbers are, and decide if the numbers just read are OK. In the middle of a race, I generally don't care what the numbers are... just that they are OK.

[jon volk]

[PiercedE30]

^^^Very nice

[kommissar]

Lance, those switches in the radio blank are totally badass. It makes me think of those in the Lister Storm, since I just watched this video.

[apprentice]

Any chance of a DIY write-up on this?

[PiercedE30]

^^that's cool

[Lance Racing]

The switches are for:

One is to turn on the timing transponder, which is how our lap times are recorded with the officials.

Second is to turn on an aux cooling fan on a hot day, for if we are having to idle or go slowly, say under a full course yellow

Third is a defrost fan, currently not working. :-(

The next two are not used, and actually that is an old image I realize because we put a timer next to the 3 remaining switches to be able to watch the time of the race from inside the car. The races are 30 minute timed events, so right before the green flag, start the timer, and have a better idea how much time is left in the race.

All in all, it is not pretty, but it is a race car and just needs to be functional.

I color coded the dials after my first day in the car when I realized how much mental work it took twice a lap to read the information and decide if it was good or bad, all while traveling 120+ MPH with other cars. The red and green color coding helps a lot. In fact, I've added a yellow zone in the water temp because I now have a second driver running the car (my wife) and I wanted her to know what constituted warm, but not super hot where you would want to turn off the car to save the head.

[uofom3]

SPA Digital Dual Guages.

[KenC]

Pretty fancy gauges for a car that never sees the road, Ted. ;)

[MR 325]

Any chance of a DIY write-up on this?

Sorry, there is no writeup. The pod was made by jordan Sarette. There are only 2 of them that were made. I own one and whoever bought Jordan's car now owns one. I kept mine when my car was sold though.