# Designing a cluster gauge speedo backdrop **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [May 11, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810 "2006-05-11T02:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/21 "2006-05-12T05:49:19Z")
All the clusters you posted look relativly the same. Same font, same needles, different colour. You wanted our opinions and advice, you got it. Don’t whine just because you didn’t get the answer you were looking for. You get the ‘over-reaction of the year award’ ![http://www.golfsartgallery.com/golf_gifts/golf_trophies_awards/trophies_awards_graphics/tro_dak108a.jpg](http://www.golfsartgallery.com/golf_gifts/golf_trophies_awards/trophies_awards_graphics/tro_dak108a.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Solarian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/solarian/32/5514_2.png) [@Solarian](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Solarian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/22 "2006-05-12T06:02:56Z")
Oh, yea, if you wanted a different, more modern, sexier and more unique looking cluster: Rip out current cluster Make a mould of the shape of it with styrofoam or sth. Pick a bunch of nice-ass aftermarket gauges and set them in there (cut holes for them) Wetlay some CF, bout 4 layers Make some brackets to stop the gauges from wiggling around. Pop that bitch back in. You can have a sexy cluster with a large tach in the centre, a smaller digital speedo, boost gauge, oil temp, etc… All in the stock location, without need for putting crap on your a-pillar. It’s not that hard either. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/23 "2006-05-12T06:37:44Z")
/\ /\ /\ hahah good idea!! ---
**Author:** ![Gonad](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gonad/32/5481_2.png) [@Gonad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gonad)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/24 "2006-05-12T09:21:27Z")
Digital dash \> \* Can read in KM/h and MPH. It will read up to 199MPH which equates to 318KM/h. :noes: BTW, I know the digital won’t read anywhere close to that. Not even sure what the max is. ---
**Author:** ![BAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bas/32/5540_2.png) [@BAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BAS)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/25 "2006-05-12T10:39:20Z")
SARD STACK dude… I have one coming in For a customer… you too can have one for $1800… not including the sensors… What something in indiglow then use the Motec $2400 I believe, comes with datalogging and I/O ports built in. going to all this trouble to make a guage cluster that will never see a speedo needle on the last 1/3 of the dial is silly, you loose low end ( being the 40 - 60kph zone) resolution where you do 75% of driving… might as well not have a working speedo at all and just put in some random speedo that looks good. You say you don’t like ‘rice’ yet what you what to do, for the reasons you want to do it… is ‘rice’ … Work on the other aspects of the car first… things that will make the car require an upgrade in speedo ( just to rub it in… the FC3S come std with a 260kph speedo… and the upgrades are 300 & 330kph… ) :twisted: ---
**Author:** ![brocoli](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brocoli/32/5518_2.png) [@brocoli](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brocoli)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/26 "2006-05-12T12:34:47Z")
stop posting. go make one. come back give us a DIY thread and let champainge rain down from the heavens. :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: if your looking for someone else to tell you how to do it so you can than show off how crazy your invention is then thats kinda :greddy2: and like everyone else said, you dont need a speedo to have that big of a range when you wont hit it…and like BAS said just for looks than it is what you say you dont want… RICE ---
**Author:** ![spd-dmn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spd-dmn/32/5513_2.png) [@spd-dmn](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/spd-dmn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/27 "2006-05-12T18:30:36Z")
f motec. f the stack. what i want is the DSSC. ![http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/dssc/images/ssc-illustration-01.gif](http://www.nippon-seiki.co.jp/defi/product/dssc/images/ssc-illustration-01.gif) (too bad it’s like 2x the price of the sard unit) ☹ ---
**Author:** ![G-E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/g-e/32/5546_2.png) [@G-E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/G-E)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/28 "2006-05-12T20:53:09Z")
don’t think anyone will mistake a 4 banger for a supercar anytime soon it’s kinda like putting a dildo in your pants and saying you’re a stud, I don’t think there’s anywhere in canada you could actually go \>200kph let alone legally maybe for a few seconds down a long straight on some track but at that speed you should really be watching other things… like the road ---
**Author:** ![alesserfate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@alesserfate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/alesserfate)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810/29 "2006-05-12T21:13:40Z")
i go over 200 all the time, just watch the road for cops and your ok, as long as your doing it in control imo its fine, i wouldnt mind having a 320km/h speedo, sasha went 279 with an sr, no reason not to get a nice speedo [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/designing-a-cluster-gauge-speedo-backdrop/95810.md?page=1)