

| Subject: | Re: Current van projects / seamless, quad headlights, 9 gauge cluster |
| From: | Jason Kirk |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:02:33 -0700 |
Great! Where are the .jpg's?
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> Mark Thoma
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 1:48 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Current van projects / seamless, quad headlights, 9 gauge
cluster
>
> Hi everybody,
> Having seen all the recent posts I've got a few jpg's of recent
projects.
> After growing tired of not being able to see anything at night with
the
> quad headlights in my '87, I found a set of buckets for the earlier
> round headlights in a junkyard and put them in. Then deciding that I
> really didn't like the two headlight look I found a set of buckets for
the
> old 5" quad headlight set-up on an early model GM, sawed them in half
> and used the half for the high beam. Easy to wire. Lotsa light,
notta
> lotsa moola. Next step have my welder buddy put together a grill out
> of aluminum.
> A couple of pics of the seamless project. Love this Metal-2-Metal
> product. Like Bondo, but apparently made out of powdered aluminum and
> resin. Sets up in 3-5 minutes though. Gotta work fast and olny mix
up a
> little at a time.
> And finally a couple of pics of the instrument cluster project. 9
> gauges (including the water temp, oil pressure, oil temp, boost, egt,
> volts, speedo, tach, and original fuel gauge {little cutout between
speedo
> and tach) inside the original binnacle. Three idiot lights (alt, oil
> pressure, coolant loss, turn signals). Losta surgery but again notta
> lotsa moola if you don't count the expense of the gauges.
> mark
>
>
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