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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 02:25 AM
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Question Custom Gauge Color?

I am looking to go with black cat customs to get a gauge set, but am not sure what color/lighting to do. Here is my dash:




Yes, i have a cobalt autometer voltmeter, thats whats throwing me off color wise. I originally wanted yellow face and not sure on lighting, but with that, iam not sure. here are the options:

Face colors:

White
Yellow
Silver
Black

Lighting colors:

Light Blue
Red
Green
Yellow
Natural


What combination do you think would look best?
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 02:36 AM
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 11:00 AM
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Holy **** I love the flame cluster!!
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 12:22 PM
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You can thank me for the flame cluster...at least if you got it in blue. It was supposed to be a silver face with blue flames. I gave them the idea to make for me cuz i wanted something that was a one off that nobody else had about 6 months ago, and they put it into production before i could even order them. I'm kinda pissed at them atm actually. BUT...they do have a great product and i started working with them at the same time I came up with the flame guages idea to get the STOCK boost gauges for our cars with a custom face and soon you'll be able to order a direct replacement that is the factory boost gauge with a custom face. They were quoting me a price of roughly $120 for a new gauge with the custom face installed already. I was doing it because I wanted to use the factory T/C boost gauge since it goes to 30 psi.

That's funny...2 weeks ago when I looked at their site and noticed the flame gauges on there, they were silver face with the blue flames...they changed it to black with silver flames. I was gonna post up the pic that was supposed to be my gauges. Now i gotta come up with something totally different....damnit
Found mine!! http://blackcatcustom.com/custom%20d...Silver_jpg.jpg

Anyway, sorry for sidejackin a little bit....what color is your car and do you plan on painting the interior?

Last edited by ~Mike~; Feb 12, 2009 at 12:36 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 01:08 PM
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hahah nice
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ~Mike~
You can thank me for the flame cluster...at least if you got it in blue. It was supposed to be a silver face with blue flames. I gave them the idea to make for me cuz i wanted something that was a one off that nobody else had about 6 months ago, and they put it into production before i could even order them. I'm kinda pissed at them atm actually. BUT...they do have a great product and i started working with them at the same time I came up with the flame guages idea to get the STOCK boost gauges for our cars with a custom face and soon you'll be able to order a direct replacement that is the factory boost gauge with a custom face. They were quoting me a price of roughly $120 for a new gauge with the custom face installed already. I was doing it because I wanted to use the factory T/C boost gauge since it goes to 30 psi.

That's funny...2 weeks ago when I looked at their site and noticed the flame gauges on there, they were silver face with the blue flames...they changed it to black with silver flames. I was gonna post up the pic that was supposed to be my gauges. Now i gotta come up with something totally different....damnit
Found mine!! http://blackcatcustom.com/custom%20d...Silver_jpg.jpg

Anyway, sorry for sidejackin a little bit....what color is your car and do you plan on painting the interior?

Well. So far 4 responses and no help. Ha.

My car is yellow as in my sig and I was thinking of painting the dash trim. Not sure what color. Maybe flat yellow.
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 01:36 PM
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Well go with blue to match your other guage then. That's what i did in mine. Unfortunately not a whole lot of colors go well with yellow. Face color is totally up to you, I'd go silver or black face. Unless you really wanna stand out, I wouldn't get the whole colored face in like a yellow or something. But with the painted interior the yellow face with the yellow ones may not look too bad. As you can see up there i chose silver face with blue flames for mine, but decided not to get them now. I gotta come up with something else on the design.
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 02:23 PM
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So maybe yellow face with blue lighting? And paint dash trim yellow. That may look good. I also can get a set of blue inserted as seats. That all may look neat.
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 03:27 PM
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Never know til you try...I wouldn't do the blue seats tho, way too much of a color contrast.
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Old Feb 12, 2009 | 05:37 PM
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I wouldn't mind a silver gauge face with the stock lighting. I just will not install them myself. I KNOW I will mess something up.
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Old Feb 13, 2009 | 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by ~Mike~
You can thank me for the flame cluster...at least if you got it in blue. It was supposed to be a silver face with blue flames. I gave them the idea to make for me cuz i wanted something that was a one off that nobody else had about 6 months ago, and they put it into production before i could even order them. I'm kinda pissed at them atm actually. BUT...they do have a great product and i started working with them at the same time I came up with the flame guages idea to get the STOCK boost gauges for our cars with a custom face and soon you'll be able to order a direct replacement that is the factory boost gauge with a custom face. They were quoting me a price of roughly $120 for a new gauge with the custom face installed already. I was doing it because I wanted to use the factory T/C boost gauge since it goes to 30 psi.

That's funny...2 weeks ago when I looked at their site and noticed the flame gauges on there, they were silver face with the blue flames...they changed it to black with silver flames. I was gonna post up the pic that was supposed to be my gauges. Now i gotta come up with something totally different....damnit
Found mine!! http://blackcatcustom.com/custom%20d...Silver_jpg.jpg

Anyway, sorry for sidejackin a little bit....what color is your car and do you plan on painting the interior?
Sorry to sidejack the sidejack, but felt I had to chime in here. We did work on the flame design quite a while ago with you and did the design for you at no charge . We made the face to see how it would work. It worked great. No order came, so we had this face available. We did not put it "into production". There is only one silver and blue flame that we have available for sale. Just wanted to clarify.

Originally Posted by cjlee07
So maybe yellow face with blue lighting? And paint dash trim yellow. That may look good. I also can get a set of blue inserted as seats. That all may look neat.
I think a great look would be a black face in the c-style face with the yellow accents and blue led lighting. The blue led lighting would best match your autometer gauge. It would look like the last pic above.

Last edited by blackcatcustom; Feb 13, 2009 at 11:18 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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