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I supported Toymods Banned User
Location: Brisbane
Registered: May 2002
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Gauges
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Sat, 05 February 2005 02:28
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Wheres a good place to buy gauges? Preferably online and for good prices?
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I Supported Toymods
Location: melbourne.vic.au
Registered: May 2002
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Location: Rocklea qld
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Gauges
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Sun, 06 February 2005 08:48
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repco if you want speco ones..
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Location: Hobart, Tas
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Gauges
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Sun, 06 February 2005 11:12
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Except they seem to be in the US.
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Location: brisbane
Registered: October 2004
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Location: brisbane
Registered: October 2004
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I supported Toymods Toymods Club Secretary
Location: Sydney
Registered: May 2002
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Location: Sydney
Registered: April 2004
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Re: Gauges
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Mon, 07 February 2005 13:26
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repco and get the VDO ones like I did,ull be cool..i swear!
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I supported Toymods Banned User
Location: Brisbane
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Gauges
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Mon, 07 February 2005 13:30
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Looks good mate, I dont mind some of the VDO range. Ol school
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Location: Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
Registered: January 2003
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Re: Gauges
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Wed, 09 February 2005 10:02
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ebay for old VDO gauges.. i got most from there.. they were all old stock NIB, and most were manufactured in the 70's (for that true period look .. some are even full metal
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I supported Toymods
Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: May 2002
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Location: Adelaide
Registered: July 2004
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Re: Gauges
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Wed, 09 February 2005 10:44
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riceburna, where did u get that horn button! i want it!
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Location: Perth
Registered: June 2002
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Re: Gauges
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Wed, 09 February 2005 12:34
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Just on the topic of gauges, being an instrument/electrical fitter by trade, when I got my 30psi Autometer boost gauge, I had to check the calibration on it. I was amazed to find it reading 3 pound out at full scale. The error varied up and down scale, so repeatability was an issue.
I returned it and got another. Same again (not as bad this time).
This continued with a few other gauges, different makes too. I finally settled on a VDO number, accurate to .2 psi. Pretty good I thought, so yeah, as far as I can tell, VDO are the most accurate and don't look too shabby either!
Cheers
Gabe
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Location: Hobart, Tas
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Gauges
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Wed, 09 February 2005 12:42
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gabe wrote on Wed, 09 February 2005 23:34 | Just on the topic of gauges, being an instrument/electrical fitter by trade, when I got my 30psi Autometer boost gauge, I had to check the calibration on it. I was amazed to find it reading 3 pound out at full scale. The error varied up and down scale, so repeatability was an issue.
I returned it and got another. Same again (not as bad this time).
This continued with a few other gauges, different makes too. I finally settled on a VDO number, accurate to .2 psi. Pretty good I thought, so yeah, as far as I can tell, VDO are the most accurate and don't look too shabby either!
Cheers
Gabe
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Very interesting info! I'm very curious to know how bad the other 'big name' gauages are, now.
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Location: Brisbane
Registered: February 2003
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Re: Gauges
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Wed, 09 February 2005 15:23
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Did you try any Japanese made ones? Greddy, HKS, Defi?
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Location: Sydney
Registered: April 2004
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Re: Gauges
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Thu, 10 February 2005 02:47
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draven wrote on Wed, 09 February 2005 21:04 | riceburna - that looks awesome! excatly the look I want on my supra (except more gauges in the cluster, less sneezed all over the dashboard - no offence)
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thanks,yeh the steering wheel is hiding one gauge thats why it looks a bit broken up,its a pretty shit photo but what I liked was that they just pushed through the instrument cluster and fitted perfectly,the speedo is 280km which will be nice to see what I can get out of the 3tgeu As for VDO brand wise, they are one of the largest electronics companies in the world with alot of industries relying on precision instrumemts to maintain some pretty HD machinery ontop of this I think the oil,fuel,volt taco and speedo cost about $580 for the set,compare that to autometer ud be looking at over a grand and have to put up with MPH
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I supported Toymods
Location: Epping, Sydney
Registered: May 2002
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Re: Gauges
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Thu, 10 February 2005 23:53
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I reckon a bit of aluminium fabbing and I could get the look of your instrument cluster form the old ma61....
(no greg, must get car running and road legal. do not put expense into prettiness)
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