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DISCUSSION => Interior => Topic started by: Beeker1972 on February 10, 2014, 10:05:54 PM

Title: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: Beeker1972 on February 10, 2014, 10:05:54 PM

I wonder if there were ever an OEM E30 9k tachometer?

Title: Re: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: Darky on February 10, 2014, 11:11:51 PM

Nope but easy to do, just get a new gauge face printed! Same scale.

Title: Re: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: dsm2002 on February 11, 2014, 06:11:14 PM

One I dummied up earlier. 

(http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee19/2002act/P5210277a.jpg)

Title: Re: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: Onz on June 11, 2014, 11:48:00 AM

How do you get the lights to shine through?

And do any of you have a 9k RPM car?

Title: Re: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: bmwman91 on June 14, 2014, 03:57:42 PM

The gauges are lighted from the front, actually. There are openings at the bottom below the gauges, but they are almost impossible to see with the dash sticking out (as it should be).

Where do you guys go to get custom face plates made?

Title: Re: E30 9k oem tach!
Post by: hgrunt on January 23, 2015, 06:31:33 AM

Quote from: bmwman91 on June 14, 2014, 03:57:42 PM

The gauges are lighted from the front, actually. There are openings at the bottom below the gauges, but they are almost impossible to see with the dash sticking out (as it should be).

Where do you guys go to get custom face plates made?

I actually did some internet research on this, after getting the idea of implanting a VDO oil temperature gauge into the E30 cluster. This thread shows a detailed process for making a set of faces. They're for back-lit gauges, so there's probably a few steps that could be skipped for front-lit gauges: http://mazda626.net/topic/39309-making-custom-gauge-faces/