JeffHarbert
JeffHarbert Reader
2/13/13 2:43 p.m.

I'm looking for slim LED or LCD gauges. Water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, etc. By slim I mean a gauge housing of, say, 1/2" thick, 3/4" tall, 1 1/4" wide, give or take, not including whatever cable had to be run to it. The idea is that I could add 3-4 of these in a row right in front of the factory instruments, where the wood blocks are in this pic:

Do such gauges exist?

SCARRMRCC
SCARRMRCC New Reader
2/13/13 2:59 p.m.

looking to mod/buy partial/make?

those little tiny gauges in the center of the dash on the new focus ST, already have 2 of your gauges.. you just to change the center boost gauge to an oil temp gauge.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker
Giant Purple Snorklewacker MegaDork
2/13/13 3:05 p.m.

How good are you at electronics?

A controller like an Arduino + LCD can do what you want cheaply but if not familiar with the technology... not easily.

Also a good application of an old Android phone + OBDII bluetooth if it's common metrics you are after.

Swank Force One
Swank Force One MegaDork
2/13/13 3:11 p.m.

Buddy Club makes 1/4 DIN rectangle gauge displays like what you're looking for. I don't remember how much they are, though.

And they may be a little "deep" front to back.

Could also look at Auber displays. They're all over Ebay.

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/sch/eBay-Motors-/6000/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=auber

Again maybe a little deep.

RexSeven
RexSeven UltraDork
2/13/13 4:41 p.m.

The Ark Design Multi-Function Display might fit the bill. It has a very small footprint and you can customize what parameters you want it to display.

Standard version: http://www.arkdesign-us.com/products/electronics/mfd-multi-function-dash

OBDII-compatible version: http://www.arkdesign-us.com/products/electronics/mfd-2-multi-function-dash-2

They have a whole bunch of gauges that have small form factors, but aside from the MFD and a shift timer, Ark Design's products are turbo- and DBW-oriented.

JeffHarbert
JeffHarbert Reader
2/13/13 9:30 p.m.

Interesting options, guys. Thanks. Much appreciated.

RexSeven
RexSeven UltraDork
2/13/13 9:41 p.m.
Swank Force One wrote: Buddy Club makes 1/4 DIN rectangle gauge displays like what you're looking for. I don't remember how much they are, though. And they may be a little "deep" front to back.

Here's a website selling the Buddy Club Digi-Meters:

http://www.evasivemotorsports.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=BUDDYCLUB_DIGIMETER

According to this post I found on a 240SX forum, Evasive says the meters' dimensions are 3” W x 3/5” H x 2” D.

Derick Freese
Derick Freese SuperDork
2/14/13 9:28 a.m.

I'm building several for myself and for resale. Not terribly hard to do. I want a ton of optional inputs for additional sensors, and ability to use it as a display for a wideband.

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