quote Originally posted by racingfortheson: Guess this is never going to happen

I believe this is still in the cards for John to do...But I think he is trying to concentrate all his time with MAACO fixing the royal screw up that they did to his Fiero at the moment.

quote Originally posted by racingfortheson: Guess this is never going to happen

Wow, what a useful & well thought out post..... and such an optimistic outlook! Kudos to you!

quote Originally posted by fierogtlt1: I believe this is still in the cards for John to do...But I think he is trying to concentrate all his time with MAACO fixing the royal screw up that they did to his Fiero at the moment.

Yea, that has been a priority lately..... what a mess, but that discussion is in another thread....

At the moment, I have all of the Fiero gauges rendered into my dye cutting machine's format. I also have sourced back-lit panels for all of the stock gauges. I have been working on different materials, and trying to find a way to print / dye / transfer the images onto a thicker, more permanent material.

I have the reverse gauges pretty much sorted out. Such as white or yellow gauges with black or dark lettering. The light is Ok to bleed through the background on these, as you want to see the color back lit. It is the dark faced gauges that I am having a problem with light bleeding through the background. Typically on a black gauge, you want the light just to illuminate the lettering, tick marks and such.

This project is not dead yet, but just being worked on in my spare time, and testing different ways to do it.

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John.Glad to see this thread for 2 reasons. I spend my winters in WPBeach , and I need to fix my dash cluster that has developed some problems. I bought the Black gauge kit with Ferr@ri emblems from J. Brian Riley when he was in business. are you familiar with his products. [I can't find him now] the tach is OK but the speedo overlay has hairline cracks that let the light show through.
When you get this up and running I will probably be a customer.

This is pretty cool John! Updates on the project?

Any updates .... or selling these ....I'm in need of overlays in metric KPH
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quote Originally posted by JohnWPB: Sorry, I am still working on an answer. I am trying to find a way to make the tick marks, other than drawing each one by hand. I am going to need some sort of script or way to automate the process.

I don't think it would be as simple as rotating the gauge 2 MPH or whatever. It would have to adjust each MPH mark whatever % difference in speed the new diameter changes it cumulatively for each MPH increase. Basically, if your tire puts you off 4%, at 100 MPH that's 4 MPH off, 75 your 3 MPH off, 50 your 2 MPH off and 25 your only 1 MPH off. Right? At least that's how the tire guy explained it to me.

quote Originally posted by racingfortheson: Guess this is never going to happen

Yeah its a shame. I really liked those carbon fiber overlays.

Wow, I forgot all about this.... I never intended to leave anyone hanging with this. I just never found a good enough solution that would work well.

I have the ability to print the gauges on anything that will go through a laser or ink jet printer. The problem is, any of that material I have tried lets light bleed through what is supposed to be dark area's. For this to work, it would somehow have to be silk screened or some other technique that would absolutely block all light in areas, other than the tick marks and numbers.

Bump....John, did you give up on this?

JohnWPB, I know it's about a good 4-5 years since last update. Was curious about an update, I am kinda new to the community and I've had my Fiero since 3/23/2021. I had come across some cluster gauge overlays and I have been wanting some now for my Fiero, I know that I cannot be the only one interested by reading through all of these comments. Was there any further success with your project? Do you think you'd be able to take another jab at it? Keep us updated, would like to hear further

Ausfiero had guage overlays and you could download the files from his web site a couple of decades ago feeling old now. Jim are you around tbh he has done so much for community without reward as kept it all going as long as possible.

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