Re: Calling Brett!!! was: Brighter gauges for Mk1.

["Randy B" <sirocco@telocity.com>]

Jeremy,
The gauge faces were made by Brett Van Sprewenburg from the list.
Brett, you out there???
He sent me sample images of the tach/speedo and I played around in Photoshop
with them and finially decided on white/black/red with the word Scirocco on
the faces.
I believe he can put whatever you want on them, only limited by your
imagination. (I even considered using the Porsche Boxster font for awhile).
I have also been thinking about a way to create a set of gauges where red
light passes through the #'s and such like in the 99.5-2001 Audi A4's but
haven't come up with a solution that would be: A. within a reasonable
budget, and B. semi OEM looking (not hacked together).

If you come up with something that works LMK.

Randy




> Where'd you get the gauge faces from? I can't find them anywhere anymore
> for an MKI. Also, has anybody done any more radical mods to their
> gauges, like trying to get the red/blue combo that's on the new cars?
> I'm down for more light and white faces, but if I can modify it even
> further, I'll try it.
>
> jeremy
>
>
> On Friday, December 7, 2001, at 12:14 , Randy B wrote:
>
> > Well I finially got around to puting on the gauge faces I got from Brett
> > many moons ago and they came out real nice :)
> > The instalation was real straight forward thanks to the great
> > instructions.
> >
> > While handling the Speedo it occured to me that I could create a
> > brighter
> > and more evenly lit gauge if I added another bulb to the housing.
> > After going through my parts bins I found another bulb housing/wire and
> > went
> > to work instaling it.
> > Check out the link for details:
> > <<http://www.myscirocco.org/_MARS__81S/Gauges/gauges.html>>
> >
> > After installing the guage cluster back in the car (at night) I tested
> > it to
> > see if there was a difference with the new bulb by  unpluging each one
> > at a
> > time.
> > There was a noticable difference when both were on over just having one
> > on.
> > It is kind of like having a speaker not connected, you don't notice
> > right
> > away but when you find it and hook it back up you say...WOW! I can't
> > believe
> > I didn't notice. (just did this in the Jetta, one rear speaker wasn't
> > hooked
> > up).
> >
> > Well, off to the wrecker for some trim pieces :)
> >
> > Randy
> >
> >
> >
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