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Nov 1, 2006 7:57:00 PM
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Marwan Arakji
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Re: GUARDS RED GAUGES
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Texas911 said:
Why not change the needles to some other color?
Find a DIY hack for removing the guage cluster. (is very easy to do once instructions to "puzzle" are known). Carefully mask off the needles (easy to do just put a slit in backing paper and slide behind needle) and then give them a few carefully practiced shots of white spray paint. Just like model making, High quality, done precisely, go to big time hobby craft shop for white spray paint and encouragement if needed.
no big deal. Seems "impossible" to some people, but really is verrrrry easy. Just need the DIY guage cluster removal hack (and an appreciation that in painting something 90 percent of the effort is in **carefully** masking the object to be painted. (imagine the disaster of white overspray on your red guage faces!!)
Re: GUARDS RED GAUGES
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Elle said:Quote:
lzmartik said:
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Any more pics of this car out there?
I don't have more pictures of that car (the one with carbon interior). It was a show car on Auto Mobil International, Leipzig 2005, so maybe Google could help you if you want more pictures of it. Here's an another picture of an another car with red gauges though.
Re: GUARDS RED GAUGES
MMD is right. Those of us who ride custom crotch rockets are all too familiar with changing the color of gauge faces and needles. Not so sure disassembling the gauges of a 997 is all that easy though. Could be a ridiculously expensive undertaking if you're not careful -- but then, isn't that true with all things Porsche. 
Re: GUARDS RED GAUGES
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Weasel said:
Not so sure disassembling the gauges of a 997 is all that easy though.
I've not actually painted the needles. Very sorry to misguide people if I did.
I DID IN FACT remove the guage cluster from my Boxster to paint the dash trim NO PROBLEM. By following a 996 DIY hack, the whole instrument cluster was out of the car and on my workbench in about ten minutes. I didn't check it out much more carefully, but I'm sure there was an EASY way to get the acyrlic guage lens material off and get access to the guage faces to mask and then paint the needles.
Everything in our cars is designed to come apart and be modular and snap back togeather (even screws are getting more and more rare). So I KNOW the 997 guage cluster comes out easily and I BET you can continue just as easily to get access to the needles and the guage faces so you can do some serious, precision, delicate, surgical masking so you can spray those needles if you want.
Here's another clue. Suncoast Autosports will SELL you colored guage faces, so installing them probably doesn't require a PhD, or training from Porsche with special tools.
Personally, I myself, would STOP before actually removing the needles. I would NEVER remove the needles, just slip some masking material behind them.
Gotta find a DIY hack for instrument cluster removal before doing anything though. (try Renntech) DO NOT try to figure out how to do it without instructions. It's a baaaaad puzzle to try to solve knowing nothing.
Re: GUARDS RED GAUGES
Odd thing I noticed recently at the dealer looking at a Cayman S: 987 models with Red dials get BLACK numbers/ mph markings. A bit easier to read imo than white numbers/hash marks on 997 version, but not by much. sorry no better pics than this from dealer website...
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