S13 HUD gauge faces for free

[DjPantsSpecR]

sorry if this title is a bit mis-leading, but i have full size scans of the S13 HUD gauge faces.

why is this useful? well, you can completely change your gauge faces for free with something like photoshop. Then just print out your face, or do it on a transparency so you don't have to cut out about 80 tickmarks.

while you're down there, you can even change the colors of your needles, for free.

I don't know throw some tittays on your tach or something. I'm still impressed with my faces, despite their ghettoness. better than paying 50 bones for something.

argh on second thought, if someone wants this you gotta help me figure out how to post it cuz its too big

[240DRFT]

I don't know throw some tittays on your tach or something. I'm still impressed with my faces, despite their ghettoness. better than paying 50 bones for something.

wtf? lol hahaha

i bet itll be useful to someone

[ILikeMy240sx]

send me the pic through email and I will host it

[PaulSheraton]

I'd like to see these. How big of a file are we talking about?

If you can fit them in an email, I can prolly get a host for them.

paul.sheraton@gmail . com

[DjPantsSpecR]

okay, i'm gonna e mail it to paul if thats all good with everyone.

i'll also try to send you the one i made just to give you a little idea

i do hope someone enjoys this DIY ghettoness, because even fake carbon fiber is possible

[Clatch]

O...M...G...!!!! Have one titty per meter, the nipple for the center, a set of titties for your speedo and rev, brilliant! I am soooooo going to do this now, what a surprise for the next mechanic that works on my car!

[DjPantsSpecR]

i know i already was thinking about doing that myself.

i haven't taken apart my hatchback gauge cluster so i only have scans for the HUD, so you are going to have to pull yours out and scan it up. unless someone sends me enough for a few gallons of gas then ill do it for ya

i keep tryin to e mail the stuff but one is in jpeg and just over this site's limit, plus its the wrong format, but the scan itself is 20.5 mb so i'll keep trying to send it out.

also don't remove your neeldes unless you know how to, or you will be pissed when your car idles at like "2 grand" or something

[PaulSheraton]

i keep tryin to e mail the stuff but one is in jpeg and just over this site's limit, plus its the wrong format, but the scan itself is 20.5 mb so i'll keep trying to send it out.

I sent you an e-mail in order to get it hosted, just making sure you got the mail. Unless of course you can get that file in an email, I think that will be the easiest way...

[DjPantsSpecR]

cool man, unfortunately ill have to do it later today, but thanks alot.

but for now i gotta go waste about five hundo on books, damn yous mechanical engineering!

[DjPantsSpecR]

alright, Paul i uploaded it, can you help make it happen?

and it was 562 dollars... just for some damn books.

[PaulSheraton]

Ok finally got it hosted, sorry for the wait..I'm not too sure how much bandwidth comcast allows to download, but I got a back up host too...

http://home.comcast.net/~paul.sheraton/ ... Sheraton29

Be sure and post what you turn them in to
Modified by PaulSheraton at 6:51 PM 9/8/2005

[DjPantsSpecR]

ha, paul thanks a lot.

Now so everyone doesn't mess their stuff up:

Don't pull off any of your needles unless you first remove the little black stopper on the gauge face itself and then let the neelde sit down at its true zero. then mark the needle and go ahead and pull it off, you can even scrape the white off the back and hit it with whatever color you want your needle to be. This applies the same to all needles.

You might not get the lighting effect you are looking for unless you remove all of the backlighting bulbs in your gauge face and take off the little blue caps. I'm only impressed by this and there are no negative effects.

You have to cut out all the tick marks by hand with an exacto knife, and its a *****.

However, if you use regular paper and go this route you almost need to leave your old gauge face on and just slip the piece of paper over the face. Sometimes everyhting doesnt line up as you want it to, but its still nice.

Other alternatives i havent tried but plan to include:

print out onto a transparency and make sure to leave the numbers and tickmarks clear, this is the easiest way i imagine, no old gauge face and no cutting

or print out onto a transparency and leave everything clear but the numbers and tickmarks and possible put something behind there like some EL lighting or something, definately dont use the old gauge face

get some photo paper, the ultra thick kind, print out what you want and then don't use the old gauge faces under it at all. You have to cut out the tick marks, but since you are re-designing it any way why not only make a tick mark once every five tickmarks?

i don't know i want you to go nuts and come up with something crazy and something that no one has ever seen.

for mine i just got rid of all the letters, only left the numbers and i'm using the JUN auto lemon yellow to lime green fade

the one im working on uses to tick marks at all. Instead at every thousand and at every five hundred rpm i cut out basically a needle. So if the actual needle is pointing over the "needle" you know what rpm you are at. looks crazy and i guarentee youve never seen anything like it, but its really hard to explain but really easy to understand