Tacho & Gauge Set Up's

Ollie Yeah Buddy

840 posts · joined Oct 2009 · 31 Jul 2012, 3:55 pm

#915407

Hey guys,

Figured this would be the best place to put this thread, as I'm sure most of the racers on here have a decent Guages set up.

I'm basically appealing for people to post pics up of their Tacho/Gauge Set-ups, and any hints and handy tips for putting it all togther! Any brands that people recommend/don't recommend and what not, and any good set up's people have seen over the years!

Cheers boys and girls!

Ollie

Follow the Photo Fun:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95238

- '70 1500 Beetle (The Clean One)
- '76 1300 Beetle (The In-between One)
- '69 1500 Beetle (The Mean One)

cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 · 31 Jul 2012, 11:15 pm

#915503

Depends what look you are going for Ollie.
If you want to keep things looking more standard, you woudl probably go VDO cockpit range. VDO have in my experiance always made quality gauges that were good enough for VW, but I've not bought any and installed them for a very long time now. If I can find pics of my old gauge clusters I'll post them, but it could be a while.
If you wanted to go more racer style you might lean toward Auto Meter gauges.
if you wanted to try and be a bit different you could go Dakota Digital, http://www.dakotadigital.com/
But there are plenty of choices now.

humpty Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,336 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 1 Aug 2012, 12:07 am

#915513

Are you after form over function, or both?

FUCH your early!

http://www.noh2o.org/

Ollie Yeah Buddy

840 posts · joined Oct 2009 · 1 Aug 2012, 12:23 am

#915514

Cheers Cam!

Yeah I'm just looking for ideas at the moment 🙂 I'm kind of leaning toward the hanging gauges, as I'm not really that keen on slicing up my dash?

Follow the Photo Fun:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95238

- '70 1500 Beetle (The Clean One)
- '76 1300 Beetle (The In-between One)
- '69 1500 Beetle (The Mean One)

humpty Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,336 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 1 Aug 2012, 12:43 am

#915515

My boost and AFR gauges and home made shift light are mounted on a plate that is bolted to the windscreen vent flap on the A pillar..... Which I like..... The Monster Tach is on the dash... Which I hate..... Don't really need the tach anyway so will prolly remove it.

FUCH your early!

http://www.noh2o.org/

Ollie Yeah Buddy

840 posts · joined Oct 2009 · 1 Aug 2012, 1:02 am

#915516

Ah interesting, do you have any pics Humpty?

Follow the Photo Fun:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95238

- '70 1500 Beetle (The Clean One)
- '76 1300 Beetle (The In-between One)
- '69 1500 Beetle (The Mean One)

beetleboyjeff Custom Title Time!

1,790 posts · joined Feb 2009 · 1 Aug 2012, 1:07 am

#915517

VDOs do match in with the original speedo nicely, and you can hang them easily enough rather than fit them in the dash like I have.

And you can make them look pretty too.

From your ole' mate Jeff

Ollie Yeah Buddy

840 posts · joined Oct 2009 · 1 Aug 2012, 1:45 am

#915518

Cheers Jeff! That looks good, though a LOT going on there gauge wise! 😀

Follow the Photo Fun:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95238

- '70 1500 Beetle (The Clean One)
- '76 1300 Beetle (The In-between One)
- '69 1500 Beetle (The Mean One)

vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?

2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 1 Aug 2012, 7:33 am

#915528

I thought it was an airplane cockpit 👍

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 1 Aug 2012, 8:22 am

#915531

Hi

This is what I did on my old aero 1302.

Steve

1 attachment · Log in to view

JVLRacing Custom Title Time!

1,100 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 1 Aug 2012, 12:20 pm

#915553

vassy66T1 wrote:I thought it was an airplane cockpit 👍

😂fell of my chair!!

humpty Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,336 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 1 Aug 2012, 6:57 pm

#915622

Here ya go..... All very traditional I guess.... Nothing showy or unnecessary... But I still reckon the tacho has to go.

FUCH your early!

http://www.noh2o.org/

Ollie Yeah Buddy

840 posts · joined Oct 2009 · 1 Aug 2012, 8:02 pm

#915637

^^ I like this 🙂

Follow the Photo Fun:
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=95238

- '70 1500 Beetle (The Clean One)
- '76 1300 Beetle (The In-between One)
- '69 1500 Beetle (The Mean One)

barls Administrator Causer of Chaos and Mayhem

9,473 posts · joined Jun 2004 · 1 Aug 2012, 8:22 pm

#915639

“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
the chaos project - click me

type3vw Officially Full-On Dubber

343 posts · joined Dec 2005 · 7 Aug 2012, 5:05 pm

#916225

this is my old set up on my last bug

1 attachment · Log in to view

thatshimofficer Commited Dubber

57 posts · joined Oct 2011 · 8 Aug 2012, 1:58 am

#916319

I like this idea... But it depends on if you want a speedo or not!