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Matts440 said:
I finally got around to ordering my speed hut gauges and got it mostly wired up yesterday
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That layout looks great in planning but... you'll find the end upper gauges difficult to see/read.
 
RedFish said:
That layout looks great in planning but... you'll find the end upper gauges difficult to see/read.
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Only if he is 6 foot tall. Lol. If he is about 5 foot 2 he will be able to read the upper edges perfectly lol. Looks great matt.
 
Well I am 5'6" but that why the left upper one is the volts all the vital ones I can see perfect. Right upper is oil temp which I can see if it gets to hot, plus just a slight head movement I can see them as well. Lol and to think I had to mount one more gauge on the roll bar lol, I just like to know everything going on in my engines.
 
kc0r8y said:
Where are you guys getting the aftermarket inserts for the 69 Darts? The only ones I can find is for 70 and up.
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The Peak Dash was the only one I know of as shown by Matts440. They were very expensive but really nice. Unsure of the status of availability at this point. I made mine with sheet metal and 1/8" round bar and saved myself about $500 not buying the Peak Dash. Just took a lot of time to get it right.
 
clinteg said:
The Peak Dash was the only one I know of as shown by Matts440. They were very expensive but really nice. Unsure of the status of availability at this point. I made mine with sheet metal and 1/8" round bar and saved myself about $500 not buying the Peak Dash. Just took a lot of time to get it right.
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That looks great though. I like the way you put the lip around the perimeter. I was wondering what you used to do that. It finishes it out nicely. Necessity is the mother of invention. I like how yours is flat and set back. Kinda reminds me of a B body gage setup.
 
Mine is a copy of a peaks, but not made by them, went out of business before I had my dart. I had mine made by a local company here in Cali, the whole thing ran me $600 with the cnc pods.
 
moparmat2000 said:
That looks great though. I like the way you put the lip around the perimeter. I was wondering what you used to do that. It finishes it out nicely. Necessity is the mother of invention. I like how yours is flat and set back. Kinda reminds me of a B body gage setup.
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If you'd like to see how I did it, go to the bottom of page 4 of my build thread and continue from there: 1969 Dart Street/Strip (Re)Build
 
My convertible sat in a lean-to for years with the top down. As you can imagine, the interior was trashed. The dash needed a lot of work but it turned out good I think.
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I wanted to keep a stock look but add a custom flavor. I got rid of the AMP gauge and put an oil gauge in its place. I had a custom white gauge overlay made to say OIL instead of AMP and WARNING over the idiot light.
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I replaced the stock bulbs with LEDs.
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Long awaited install of my complete dash

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Call the company I used they can do it, just let them know there gauges you plan to use. They can make any number a gauge pods and configuration you want just talk to them.

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Here's the very slow progress of what I'm doing with my dash. I work on this between other projects. I plan of getting rid of the dash pads all together and doing a matte wrinkle finish to keep any glare down. I'm still thinking about how exactly I want to do the gauge layout. I think it would be neat to have some sort of central nav system like a large Garmin unit. They have a built in sat speedo so I could possibly eliminate the mechanical speedo all together.

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Speedhut has a GPS Speedometer, that's what I have in my setup. Just have to place the sensor on top your dash where it can get a clean signal through the windshield
 
I run an autometer GPS speedo. Love it. The sensor is tiny. Come right out the vent. You can just see it in the 2nd pic if you look close

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matt, is your dash alum. ? I bent one up when I first got my car, about 7 yrs ago. It looks just like yours, but I never got back to it. if I could find the right size alum tubing for the gauges, I might finish it some day. going to go back and look to see if you had a build thread. and clintegs too.
 
Yes it's all aluminum, I'll measure the pods when I get back to my house.


Okay sorry my large pods are 4.32" since I'm using the Speedhut 4" gauges, and the little ones 2.38" for their 2 1/16" gauges.
 
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Here's how my dash was since I got the car, till last week. I'm currently in the process of redoing the whole dash so I'll post pics when I'm done with it

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