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RedPhoenix · 03-12-2005, 11:49 PM

Hello, I am looking for a gauge panel so I can add extra gauges. I tried ebay, couldnt find any for a camry, what should I be looking for

RedPhoenix · 03-13-2005, 06:21 PM

bump.

***prnc_chrmng*** · 03-13-2005, 06:31 PM

you mean like a gauge pod for the a pillar?

RedPhoenix · 03-13-2005, 06:33 PM

ah thats what I meant, thanks, i couldnt get the word pod to come out

***prnc_chrmng*** · 03-13-2005, 06:37 PM

http://www.gaugepods.com/toyota.html

97camryman · 03-13-2005, 07:18 PM

I built a gauge pod to fit my center vent, heres a pic of the unfinished pod:

It is now painted to match the color of my car and waxed to a shiny finish. Basically you make a pattern over where the vent was and trace it onto a piece of thin metal. Cut out the metal. Then I used mountain dew soda cans to make rings for the gauges to sit in. I cut out the bottomms of the cans and mounted them to the metal template. Then I stretched fiberglass cloth over it all and soaked it in resin. A few more layers and then bondo it. Sand it smooth, primer, paint, clearcoat, wax, thats it.

***Hamsterman*** · 03-13-2005, 07:32 PM

^^^ what do you do about hat lack of venting now... the center vents are where i like to get most of my heat and AC

97camryman · 03-13-2005, 07:35 PM

Oh yeah almost forgot about that. I switched my coin tray to the upper din slot and sawed out the top with a dremel tool. Then I bolcked the air passage off out front and cut a hole in the bottom so the air now comes out of the coin tray below. A little plastic strip connects the ducting to the cointray and from the front it looks like an ordinary cointray not a vent. I still throw loose change in there anyways.

***Eye8Pussies*** · 03-13-2005, 11:03 PM

^ now THAT is ingenious...

***Hamsterman*** · 03-14-2005, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by 97camryman

Oh yeah almost forgot about that. I switched my coin tray to the upper din slot and sawed out the top with a dremel tool. Then I bolcked the air passage off out front and cut a hole in the bottom so the air now comes out of the coin tray below. A little plastic strip connects the ducting to the cointray and from the front it looks like an ordinary cointray not a vent. I still throw loose change in there anyways.

right on

SmokingTires · 03-14-2005, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by prnc_chrmng

http://www.gaugepods.com/toyota.html

Are these perfect fit or just say Camry because they are some what close?

***prnc_chrmng*** · 03-14-2005, 09:46 AM

i got the link from a group buy here a couple years ago. i suppose there a perfect fit...

http://toyotanation.com/forum/t26678.html