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Postby paul2508 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:47 pm

pillar guages ...is it the oil pressure and vacuum guage that are fitted into most fto's. if so, does anyone know where you can get these. also ,can you get them in white ?? i have only seen them in black
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Re: pillar guages

Postby colm_mcm » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:32 am

only in black AFAIK, although I think they're from the Evo3 or something. the dials aren't removable as the body of the dial and the bit that surrounds the glass is all one piece bent into shape.

you may have issues with depth.
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Re: pillar guages

Postby gfalls » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:54 am

colm_mcm wrote:only in black AFAIK, although I think they're from the Evo3 or something. the dials aren't removable as the body of the dial and the bit that surrounds the glass is all one piece bent into shape.

you may have issues with depth.


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Re: pillar guages

Postby Bernard » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:23 am

colm_mcm wrote:only in black AFAIK, although I think they're from the Evo3 or something. the dials aren't removable as the body of the dial and the bit that surrounds the glass is all one piece bent into shape.

you may have issues with depth.



Yup, I've had mine out to fit dial rings.
In addition to you not being able to change the faces the units are poxy to get at, very little room for movement with the vacuum gauge.
Are we talking about the same thing though? They're not on the pillar :?
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Re: pillar guages

Postby colm_mcm » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:48 am

I presume he means the gauges that replace the volt meter and clock. fitting them in a pillar?
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Re: pillar guages

Postby StewyD32 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:50 pm

I found a pillar gauge in silver, but not white when i was looking on ebay last night
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Re: pillar guages

Postby colm_mcm » Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:19 pm

Don't really like them on a Pillar, they bolong on highly tuned cars with loads of dials or on scrotemobiles like Glanzas
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Re: pillar guages

Postby paul2508 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:06 pm

rory has them in fitted into a pillar doesnt he. thought it looked neat.
check this thread.
http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=117046

the dials in the pillar look cool in white. one member mentions they are white dial covers from kmc,to match the other dials

plus i was thinking along the lines of the carbon gauges to match my kmc carbon ones.
oil pressure one looks sweet here
http://www.jcwhitney.com/electronic-and-mechanical-oil-pressure-gauges/p2008807.jcwx
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Re: pillar guages

Postby Bernard » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:54 pm

A little OT but while we're on the subject of dials...
I spotted this the other day (check the price :shock: )
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=214/prd214.htm
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Re: pillar guages

Postby paul2508 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:04 pm

prices are crazy. not into it myself but im sure there is alot of interest in them. would be great if the whole dash lit up red or something when mivec kicked in...sweeeeeet.
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