Love it.

 

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Nice! They fit real nice, gives me ideas for when I decide to upgrade my stock dash in the 66 coupe.

 

Looks great, love my Speedhuts too! Did you go GPS speedo? also, your going to really like the integrated bright and turn signal indicators.

Only thing I would change on your set-up- put the clock by tach in the pod, and oil back in dash.

 

Coolblue,

Thanks!.. I went the the regular old electronic speedo. I spent hours, days and weeks getting the VSS sensor working the right way with my T5.. Now that is working, I want to keep it.

As for the oil pressure gauge. No can do. The Shelby pod will only take a 2-1/6" gauges so its a different size than the others. Besides, moving the oil pressure gauge up next to the tach was a conscious decision since if I'm running her hard, I'm mostly looking at the tach and the oil pressure gauge is equipped with a warning light. For that reason I just think it makes more sense to put it there.

Take care,
-Shannon

 

Awesome!

 

Very nice! The 2-5/8" gauges look great!

Rusty

 

looks killer :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

Awesome job. It doesn't look aftermarket - I mean that as a compliment.

 

were did the pod gauges come from??

 

Everything came from Speedhut.

-shannon

 

Older thread BC(before Chris ) but glad it came back up. Looks great Shannon!!

Chris

 

this looks great !

 

I do realize you took your time to perform your work to be able to mount the performance gauges on outside of the 5 gauge bezel. I will be honest to say that I feel the gauges do look oversized in respect to the entire panel. I found the following pic with aftermarket gauges off the net to illustrate the ratio between a stock bezel and the smaller four gauges.

 

I do realize you took your time to perform your work to be able to mount the performance gauges on outside of the 5 gauge bezel. I will be honest to say that I feel the gauges do look oversized in respect to the entire panel. I found the following pic with aftermarket gauges off the net to illustrate the ratio between a stock bezel and the smaller four gauges.

Yep, I could see why you would say that. But this mod was a case of form following function: I aways thought the OEM sized gauges were too small and too far sunk into the dash to be glanced at and quickly understood. This is me solving that problem. Having the larger gauges for a few years, I don't think I could go back to the smaller size now.

To each his own right?

-Shannon

 

All good.
I agree with the rear mounted 2 5/8" gauges being too sunken into the bezel. Harder to see unless your at eyelevel. I considered your idea to mount from the front at first. I did decline the six gauges approach to keep the nice style of the original bezel that I like. Regardless, I decided on adding the performance gauges, but mounting the small gauges from the back side. I do realize these bezels have a chrome inlet, and I would rather go the aluminum of the gauges. BUT the addition of the aluminum bezel with chrome, plus a steering mounted tach with aluminum has brought out some interesting contrast between the two materials.

 

Just for reference and to give future projects another look, here’s mine mounted from the front.

 

Looks good! My only gripe would be the smaller gauages in the bezel aren't quite centered(figure you wont take offense since its a cheapo test bezel) I would probably take my time and work the hole higher with a die grinder or the like.

 

Yeah, the spacing was a little off with the test bezel. The final version came out pretty much spot on.

-Shannon