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Old 12 January 2014, 06:20 PM
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followed this tutorial, but improved on it slightly

Old 12 January 2014, 07:22 PM
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Ahh yeah that's the one I looked at a while ago.

Bought the HVAC unit last July and still haven't installed it
Old 12 January 2014, 07:39 PM
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looking good mate, nice project, i started one similar a few years back, looks like we had similar ideas
Old 12 January 2014, 07:40 PM
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just a bit of info too its possible to earth out the dccd light on the cluster to avoid the tape mod
Old 12 January 2014, 07:46 PM
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Can you remember which pin it was ??
Quick question regarding you black HVAC dials, im assuming those were the one you can purchase of the US ebay??
Old 12 January 2014, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by oli_p
Can you remember which pin it was ??
Quick question regarding you black HVAC dials, im assuming those were the one you can purchase of the US ebay??
not off the top off my head i cant just earth out the pins on the left hand connector and see which turns the lights out as they are mostly all dccd pins.
yup the black bit was off ebay us i think via another member
Old 12 January 2014, 07:56 PM
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Cheers , well theres two pins I cant get access to, due to the WRX plug being shorter and having two less pins than the STi, so knowing my luck it will be one of those two, but will whip them out again at somepoint and see if I can do anything
Old 16 January 2014, 03:39 PM
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big box waiting for me when I got home from work, japspeed FMIC.
Currently have one fitted at the mo, but the intercooler has been sprayed black, plus I was looking to get all my shiney parts chromed, so easier to keep on top off them and looking all nice and shiney, so will also be using the two top pipes to get them plated,
and then selling on a half new/used kit
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been a while since ive updated this, purely for the fact unsure if im keeping the car so not wanting to spend much money on it at the mo, but I had a friend from work who's trying to get into fabricating making this up for me.
Overall id say the fit 99%. Very happy with it, had to trim a small amount where it sits on the dash, due to the way it widens to fit all the gauges in. It sits every so slightly pround on the corner on drivers side, not overly noticeable but it does, that where it loses the 1% for fitment.
Want to keep it factory looking not keen on most of the gauge pods that are sold for the imprezas.

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quick pic of the gauges in place aswell, looks quite nice, happy with the result

Old 03 March 2014, 06:19 PM
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Looks different but can you see them from the drivers seat - they look to be set very low in the dash
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as they are in the pic is what I can see seated correctly. my seat is adjusted to the lowest position aswell, so could probably see everything if was higher
Old 03 March 2014, 06:42 PM
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The gauges Look good,as long as you can see the complete dialit's a different (unique)way of fitting them.SJ.
Old 03 March 2014, 06:54 PM
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I like to keep things looking as factory as possible. was planning to get another gauge fitted to the round drivers vent aswell
Old 03 March 2014, 08:47 PM
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Where did you get the pod from?
Old 03 March 2014, 08:48 PM
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had a guy I work with make it for me, may be up for sale shortly though if my car sells
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why have you gone back to the original green dials in that pic?
Old 03 March 2014, 10:33 PM
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as I maybe selling the car, thought id put the original ones back in
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another quick mod I did just, had a spare one to do this with, wasn't too hard more fiddly than anything.

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