FINISHED....well its finally finished and i also built a new box so tell me what u guys think


it still needs some more work but i just wanted to share

 

that will look real clean how did you do it?

 

looks awesome.. i like the dual ones like a couple people have on here.. it's an awesome idea and very clean

 

yea i really like!!

what he said^^^
howd you do it?

 

Lookin good so far man . A little more blending and youll have it . What are you gonna paint the bezel with ? Dupont has a interior match for GM's ebony color ...fyi ...any automotive paint supply store should have Duponts catalog of OEM interior paints and color codes catagorized by model year .

Good luck on the finished product .

 

i just used tape, plastic, bondo, and a lot of time... for paint i am going to use dupli-color flat black because it looked almost perfect matching it to the bezel

 

That looks awesome man. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

bump for the finish

 

wanna sell those?
id buy one

 

thats looks amazing!! I want one!!

 

I would pay you to make me one of those

 

That came out really nice man. I definatly give it . The box in the trunk also came out great too. How long did the whole process take for the bezel though?

 

that was one of the most time consuming things i have ever done... i wish i could but i just dont have that kind of time

 

it was like a two week process working on it on and off... it was also my first time working with bondo so there was some learning to be done

 

Looks amazing man. wish I could do that kinda thing.

 

wow now your makin me think of starting my own project

 

ya it really wasnt as hard as i thought it would be, i just took my time and tried to get it as perfect as possible

 

how did u measure out how big the gauge whole would be and how did u get it to hold?? I mean you prolly took the gauge off or something and marked it somehow but yah explain in a little detail how you did it so i can experiment off your critique

 

ok dont laugh... lol...
1. i cut off the outter ring of the cap to some spray adhesive (it was just like a spray can cap but thinner) and wrapped it around the gauge.
2. i marked and cut the plastic just a little bigger than the gauge, because i knew primer and paint would collect, and just put a piece of duct tape to hold it
3. then the scariest part of the entire project... i cut a hole in the bezel wide enough for the plastic piece to rest nicely and low enough.
4. i took some electrical tape and put a long strip from the bottom of the bezel, over the plastic, and onto the right side... i kept repeating this until i gout a solid shape that i liked.
5. throw some bondo on there... just get it all covered and reasonably smooth... sand and reapply bondo as many times as you need to in order to get it smooth...
6. primer... i used about 4 coats of filler primer to fill any small imperfections and then 5 coats of sandable primer... with pleanty of sanding in between
7. paint... i used dupli color flat black and i think it matchest perftectly

 

I like the set up it looks really good

 

ok so u got me kinda confused...i see where your coming from where you got the right size of the guage, and then you cut the plastic piece but i dont get exactly how you got the bondo to come out like that... kinda hard to say but yah explain the bondo procedure more sorry man but i really wanna do this

i appreciate it though

 

well you need to strech tape across and all around the plastic and to the bezel... when you are done taping it should pretty much be the shape that it will be when finished (i actually was just taping the whole thing for ***** and giggles to see what it would look like because i had never worked with bondo and did not know that i would just be able to use the tape as a base)... you will need quite a bit of tape and just use a razor blade to cut off the excess once you have put enough layers of bondo that it fills strong

it is very hard to try to explain and i wish that i would have taken more pics during the process but i didnt.

 

i think i understand where your coming fromjust some work is going to have to go into this

 

yes sir... i only knew one thing and that was that i had to have this and i couldnt wait any longer for the vendors... and its perfect timing w/ the aeroforce group buy

 

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