What colour are these gauges when lit up at night.

 

Either white, green or red. There's cunning little rubber things that fit over the white bulb if you want green or red.

Green is a good match for the impreza interior, IMHO.

 

Cheers Chiark.

 

How about something like these to have your dials matching up with the Phantom gauges



Calibration can be amended for mph and the different speedos accordingly

 

VERY nice looking dials there Mook !!!!

I can ensure you all that they fit like a glove (the dials in the pic are mounted on my car), and they do look awesome. If you also have some additional white-faced gauges, preferably Autometer Phantoms, the result is just great !
Another story is that if you manage to f**k up your tacho when replacing them, like I did, then it's not that nice.....
I tried asking around for a replacement kit for the tacho, but although I couldn't get an exact price yet from the local dealer, it's too much! It's so much that I'm now even considering leaving the original tacho needle to rest against the needle rest, and adding a Phantom 5" tacho on the side... with shift-light of course....

* Miki *

 

Miki > bad luck with the rev counter Do you have any pictures of them installed I could use on the website? Thanks

 

Mook,

I don't own a digital camera myself, but I'll have the camera again in a week, and I'll definitely send you some pics! Just have to get the darn tacho needle down to '0' first....

* Miki *

 

Those white dial kits are a work of evil. I'm now on my 3rd fuel gauge now and guess what? Its still not working. My fuel guage is now permanently stuck on full...

 

Unlucky i only broke 2 rev counters & on the 3rd i just melted the needle off with a soldering iron much safer than 2 spoon technique, may i also add i found nail clippers & small scissors were best bet 4 hacking off old dials.
Anyway if u want or need a list of subaru breakers 2 get replacements relatively cheaply drop me a line & i'll mail ya
Si

 

Katana, FYI the set that MJDesigns made for me doesn't require the TEMP and FUEL needles to be removed, hence problems to occur only with the revcounter and the speedo.... but that's definitely enough

* Miki * (still without the revcounter)

 

I'm guessing he may still of broken em without taking the needles off as i no it is nearrly impossible not 2 put a bit of stress on em just trying 2 hack out original fuel & temp dials
Dunno is UK breakers r of any use 2 u in Finland but list available if u want it?
Si

 

Nah, I didn't break it again. I used a hot knife to slice through the old plastic face bit. Still, it is an evil invention. I'm begining to suspect a dodgy connection somewhere. Will have a look tommorrow.

 

Guys, I'm working on some EL dials, which will fit over the needles and don't require any OE faces to be trimmed off as they provide there own lighting.

The dial faces above can also be made so as not to have to remove any needles,as they utilise the top lighting on the pre '97 dash. Brighter bulbs in top panel provide sufficient lighting for nightime illumination and give the same style lighting as the Phantoms have

Any normal replacement backlit dials will always require original faces to be removed

 

scooby_si,
tnx but you already sent me the list of brokers
I actually found two available rev counters, dunno if £60 + postage is a suitable price, though...

Mook,
during the past couple of weeks I've thought like "a couple of times" that why oh why didn't we make the rev and speedo dials the same way as the others... they're not backlit anyway. For those of you thinking of replacing your dials, I strongly recommend you have Mook make you a set which can be replaced without having to remove the needles!

* Miki *

Edited to include the pic...

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[Edited by Miki - 5/13/2002 8:09:59 AM]

 

Short term memory loss
£60 that's a damn site more than i payed well not a damn sight but @ least £10 more!
Good luck
Si
U kud always get a VSD2 HUD for about £130+ which wood look even better but u probably still want the gauge 2 work

 

The £60 was for the whole clock assembly, aother broker would have wanted the same £60 for just the revcounter!!!!
Thanks a million for the tip with the needle removal, it was very easy to melt the darn thing off, no probs that way, since I also had a couple of spare needles now...

-Miki-

 

Miki,

Move your tweeters, you'll get much better imaging and a much crisper sound if you avoid reflections from the windshield.

Back to the topic again

Nick.

 

Whaa, that picture's really wierd, so used to the steering wheel being on the right

 

Tweeters... ooh, must be part of the ICE I never use... just enjoying the boxer music nowadays

-Miki-