phoenix

My odometer, ammeter and clock don't work, the tach and oil pressure are mechanical and I am converting to TPI. This makes it somewhat necessary and cheaper to just get all new gauges (once again) rather than repair or update the originals.

My car is a 1973 metallic yellow with a black interior.

So here are my current choices:

The autometer sportcomp has the entire set 5" mechanical 160mph speedo, 5" electric tach and all of the others at 2 1/16"

The procomp has the 5" mechanical 160mph speedo or 200 mph speedo and 5" electric tach, but they don't make the procomps in 2 1/16"

So should I get the entire sportcomp set, or would it look OK to get the 200mph speedo and tach from the procomp line and the rest of the gauges from the sport comp line?

Here are photos of each:








Thanks for your opinions :):)


[Modified by phoenix, 5:58 PM 12/15/2002]

scottw

I personally like the 160 speedo. I think a 200 is just too impractical since it won't be over 125-130.... I mean 70. :lol:

litevette

Being that your car is yellow I personally would opt for the ones with the yellow in them. I think as far as looks go, those would complement everything the most. I saw a silver 69 with all silver ultralight guages and it looked sweet with the body color & guages matching. :)

PatsLs1vette

i like the pro comps better ,there the ones im gone to go with eventually
hey mike tell me which ones youll get and ill get the opposite :jester we dont want to copy too much.


[Modified by patsnitrovette, 7:07 PM 12/15/2002]

phoenix

:D:D

The only problem is that the procomps don't work for the center cluster gauges. So I'll have to mix them with the procomps for speedo and tach, the rest would be the sport comps.

If they made the procomp in 2 1/16, then It would be a no brainer, but they dont. :rolleyes:

So is it better to mix them and have the ones that I want for the speedo and tach, or better to keep them all the same??

groovyjay

Hey I have 200mph speedo, it's not impractical at all, however doing 180mph with 160mph speedo would be! :lol: Seriously I like them both, you can't go wrong with autometer stuff! :cheers:

Crash Dummy

Speaking of gauges...

When I get this new engine in I was thinking of going to a column based tach and aftermarket water/oil pressure gauges as I just don't trust the old ones. I don't want to mess up the original interior, but does anyone have any ideas of a good place to mount a set of gauges(oil, water) that won't look tacky?

Monkeywrench

While we on this subject guys what aftermarket guages fit well in early C3s? I've heard numerous peope say they got the 5" autometers to work

"with a bit of work on the bezel"...

so what's the definition of a little bit of work. I really don't want to have to fuss to much with these as the project list is too long already. I just want some nice looking guages that pop in.

Any suggestions...?

phoenix

For the 5" speedo and tach, you are very limited in choices. Basically original, rebuilt, Nordskog, Dakota Digital or Autometer. The center cluster gauges have more choices, VDO, Summit, Sunpro etc...

Does anyone know how much work it would be to adapt the 2 5/8" center cluster gauges to fit? This is the only way that I could get the procomps to work there since they don't make the 2 1/16" gauges.

:)

BeaterShark

I'd prefer the 160 speedo over the 200. If I were replacing all of my gauges, I'd put the AutoMeter speedo and tach in and put in the VDO Vision electric series gauges for the center console.

The 2 1/16" gauges are pretty easy to fit. I managed to get them behind the outer bezel for a more stock location. To make the 2 5/8" gauges fit, you'd just about have to hack up the entire bezel, and even then I'm not sure they'd fit. Or, you could go with a custom made bezel.

LakotasRose

Here is a link to the gauges I am getting for ''Rosie''.

http://www.dakotadigital.com/products.cfm?Category=53

phoenix

I put the intellitronix digital gauges in my '76 before it was totalled, but I decided to stick with analog in the '73. The digital was cool and all, but I want the '73 to look a little more stock in the cockpit. :) The dakotas are very cool too, but $$$$

Here is what my 76 looked like:




I could always do this again. It would actually be cheaper than buying all of the analog gauges individually, but I think that I want to go with the analog. What do you guys think?

'79ProwlerOrange

Analog look racier, and fits in the cockpit better. stick to analog. i hear they are alot more accurate too.