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Polished Stainless Steel
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Polished Aluminum
12
37.50%
ABS Plastic
11
34.38%
Diamond Plate
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Fabbing New Gauge Panel, Need Input on Material, POLL!!

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Old 04-20-2006, 04:55 PM
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Default Fabbing New Gauge Panel, Need Input on Material, POLL!!

Well im finally getting around to making it to accomodate all my autometer stuff, I cant decide what material to use for the panel. Its narrowd down to either Black ABS plastic, Polished Stainless, polished aluminum, or diamond plate since I have a huge sheet of it, so please let me know what you think and if you have any pics for reference post them up.


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lay one up in fiberglass, with a single face sheet of 9 oz. carbon fiber weave
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Where is this panel going to go in the car?
Old 04-22-2006, 08:49 PM
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Its replacing the stock Gauges. I finished fitting the panel up last nite out of the ABS plastic since i didnt have any metal hole saws the right size and it came out really good, . I have the fiberglass and resin so i may do that later on.

ill post pics up as soon as i can.


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gooo ABS plastic!
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Diamond plate would look like crap
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ABS retains the factory look imo
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That's exactly what I want to do when I finally start on my car. PICS PICS!!!!
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I finished making the gauge panel out of ABS im just finishing up the HVAC panel and im gonna start on the radio panel since im putting the radio in the glove box. should have pics up 2nite.

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Got any pics yet?
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Not on the Poll.....but Brushed Aluminum gets my vote....




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