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Old Apr 26, 2005 | 03:48 AM
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I am getting my A-Pillar Gauge Pod tomorrow! I would like anyone to help me with a decision...paint it blue or paint it black, I would probably do the rest of the stock pillars to match. here's a pic of what I got so far...
Old Apr 26, 2005 | 04:03 AM
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Black. As it is, the blue is too splattered and spotty.
Old Apr 26, 2005 | 04:05 AM
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Go with the blue to match the rest of car. what are the gauges for?
Old Apr 26, 2005 | 06:53 PM
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it's settled!
Old Apr 26, 2005 | 07:17 PM
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Why not try to match the color that is on the A pillar already and make it look like it came that way. Make the face of the gauges blue.
Old Apr 27, 2005 | 03:15 AM
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Stick with the black. Blue looks to much like a toy car interior.
Old Apr 27, 2005 | 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by jethro b
Why not try to match the color that is on the A pillar already and make it look like it came that way. Make the face of the gauges blue.
ditto to that. black or blue would look out of place on the A-pillar
Old Apr 28, 2005 | 12:16 AM
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Maybe I should have noted I'm doing the whole interior either blue & white or black & blue, hehe, oops! As to ghstman, I'm kinda going for the toy car interior thing, alot of show cars have very colorful interiors and I plan on sticking with the blue scheme. And as for the splattered and spotty comment...well it's just a start, hopefully after some more mods and money it'll be mostly blue with either black or gloss white trim. :\ I'll post pics of how it looks when I'm done, I think I'm gonna go with the blue cuz that's what the roof liner is going to be
Old Apr 28, 2005 | 12:21 AM
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Blue.....My .02 Cents
Old Apr 28, 2005 | 12:27 AM
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I say black, since you already have plenty of blue in the car already
Old Apr 30, 2005 | 02:00 AM
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If you can get your blue to glow with a UV light now we are talking that would be sic...
Old Apr 30, 2005 | 03:03 AM
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Just out of curiosity, are you moving the guages behind the wheel to the A-pillar, or are you adding ADDITIONAL guages? If so, are you turbocharged?
Old Apr 30, 2005 | 11:55 PM
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no turbo...yet...thinking since the oil pressure gauge is gonna (I think, require drilling into the block, I'll just set it there for looks so there's no gaping hole, but hopefully I'll turbo it up sometime when I can afford it. Just got my box 5-6 months ago, and don't have a good amount of income but I'm expecting my Injen short ram intake soon, and will be ordering my Greddy Evo 2 exhaust after this next check...if anyone's got Audio or A/V work for me I can do it!!!!
Old May 1, 2005 | 02:35 AM
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Originally Posted by o5scionxb
no turbo...yet...thinking since the oil pressure gauge is gonna (I think, require drilling into the block, I'll just set it there for looks so there's no gaping hole, but hopefully I'll turbo it up sometime when I can afford it. Just got my box 5-6 months ago, and don't have a good amount of income but I'm expecting my Injen short ram intake soon, and will be ordering my Greddy Evo 2 exhaust after this next check...if anyone's got Audio or A/V work for me I can do it!!!!
IMO you should be able to add the oil sender/line fitting to a T where the factory oil pressure sender is without having to drill. Or just use the factory location and eliminate the idiot light sender all together unless it will cause the computer to throw a code. Not sure bout that.
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