I'm not wanting to worry about the blind spot for the pillar plus the local Popos want to try and catch everything with an extra mod on their vehicle and give you a ticket for it here. I am looking to have visability of two guages without them being too visable to vehicles driving by. I've seen singles in the AC vent and two in the eyeglass holder. Ralph mentioned someone did a over-the-visor mounted set up. Anyone have pics/vids?
No. He's refering to the push to crack down on the (ricer) street racers. Visible mods draw attention and then they'll look for some reason to pull you over. I think that's how it works. So it's not illegal to have your A-pillar lit up like a christmas tree but it might be the same as a sign on the roof saying "heh, see if you can find a legal reason to pull me over"... Stretch, get a DashDaq. You can have every gauge or signal you could possibly want to monitor on 1 screen and it looks like a Garmin.
I bought, from a friend that sold his magnum, his three guage pillar pod set but haven't found anyone local I trust enough to hook everything up!!! Of couse I have to paint this from tan to grey too....
Those are my "invention"....the hard part was getting them to mount. Fuel Pressure and Fuel Gauge for 93 Octane in Fuel Cell
Let me find it. JMATT had two mounted in the sunglasses holder that looked clean and could be hidden.
Here's my view on gauge placement. Maybe my eyes aren't so good at the extremes 'cause I'm old... but you are too. Ideally you want your gauges (if they're important to read while driving) directly in your line of sight. Not real practical so next best thing is right there at the start of your peripheral vision. That way it only takes the slightest change in focus to read details and when you make that change in focus the view through the windshield is still in your main field of vision or barely into your peripheral vision. With the gauge just into your peripheral vision you're also going to see any alerts like led's or gauge color changes to draw your attention. So you have a circle/oval that sort of goes from the rear view mirror to the a-pillar and from the top of the windshield to the bottom of your dash gauges. All this can easily be seen without moving your head or straining your eyes from straight ahead. The area below the top of the dashboard is kind of out because of the light change. If you're looking out the windshield in the daytime it's pretty bright and when you look down under the level of the top of the dash it's pretty dark. Your eyes take a while to adjust. Mine take too long, to where my attention is completely off the road for an instant. I have a gauge in the eyeglasses holder and that requires a bit of head movement and a bit of re-focus for lighting but not so bad. Something just barely to the right center of the a-pillar and more towards the dash end of the a-piller than the roof is perfect. It's also something you can reach without leaning forward. Just something to think about.
Very good points Dave. Nice and clean looking too. I know those do everything in a variety of color change options as well. Whats the best price on those right now? Do you have a close up picture of the mount for it? Does it just screw into the pillar? Thanks. ...and ya, guess I'm not a "spring chicken" either...Lol!
List it's going to run around $700 + $95 for the Chrysler specific license (otherwise you only get all the OBDII + a very few Chrysler ones?). ahem... Redfox carries them and may have a special going? It will do anything in any color you want. If you got inspired with the screen editor you could have a street map with little number boxes at the intersections for gauges. high alert, low alert, in whatever color change you want and with an audio alert (canned voice or your own recordings). That analog gauge you see in the pic on the right is ECT. When the needle gets to the top of the blue pie piece (170*) the blue goes away and it looks like the gauge on the left. When the needle gets to 195* the right portion of the pie turns red. Stuff like that. Analog gauge on the left is IAT and only has the high warning set at 90*. no low warning. The bar graphs in the middle are RPM and Short term knock retard. They go green/yellow/red but I have an audible alert set for st knr. anything above 2 and it says "Engine knock detected". It would keep on repeating that but I have it set to not repeat for 5 seconds if it stays above the threshold. Center digital gauge in a larger font is AFR (analog input) and right digital is trans temp. Numbers change color at high thresholds. The whole screen is set for automatic brightness adjust (it has an ambient light detector). It comes with some heavy duty suction cup mount but the unit has a standard AMPS mounting pattern on the back so you buy whatever. Mine is on a ProClip quick disconnect which I mounted on a custom bracket that's bolted up ito the a-pillar. (apparently you didn't see my thread on the custom mount job?) http://www.srtconnection.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14291 It's better now with all black hardware and a black wrinkle finish.
Well if you choose to use my idea I have the plates made and would appreciate you using it since I took the effort to figure out the "hard" part of how to mount it
If I go that route I will definitely buy one of your coated ones. Does the AC still blow on the back of the gauge, or do you block it off?
