IDK seems pretty lame.
@Steinwerks I’ve been mislead off the dank path screw you all!
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I think it would look nice swapping the greens to blue and leaving all the reds as-is. Brownie points if you could get the needles orange.
Blue can be a bit harsh on the eyes while driving at night though, depending on just how vibrant it is.
I personally like the retro green to red style.
My Seat has all red lighted gauge cluster, and i can only advice not to.
I find all red pretty annoying wenn driving in the dark.
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Something like this?
I have more colors
Also you can change the color of the needles by scraping off the paint that’s on the back (I recommend getting extras from a junk yard).
I went with white so I can use RGB. Lol
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This is supposed to be orange/yellow, but this one has faded almost white.
Scrape that old stuff off, and this is why I recommend extras, you’ll probably need some practice. Also let me know if you have a better way to get the paint off. I have lots of extras I can try it on.
Then just paint it whatever color you want.
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Drove to a trail today and then over to work to pick something up that I didn’t want to carry home on the train. I really like the Crosstrek. Anyone who says it has no pep is either used to way too much car than they need or lying. It gets up and goes just fine.
Bonus: the trunk door does a good job of covering a person seated just inside the back of the vehicle in a light rain. Just sat at the trailhead afterwards for 10 minutes or so eating grapes and feeling pretty good about my choice of vehicle.
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That cyan on the bottom left looks great
The orange looks good too hmm
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I’m a big fan of orange gauge clusters.
I also have become more and more fond of that light blue. Just looks really nice and is easy on the eyes.
I picked up one of those cheap RGB light strips and started desoldering the LEDs and I was going to mount them in the light holes of my gauge cluster to let me choose the color at will. And when the power is cut and then returned the lights will remember their last settings.
It was turbo replacement time last night and today. Overall it went alright. Stayed up until 2AM last night working on it, then spent half the day today finishing. Hit a couple snags, but I got through it.
Works very well, can definitely feel more power. But the spool time increased a bit at takeoff because it’s larger than stock.
Lots of pictures
Old
New
New clocked
Turbo porn
These little bastards right here…
$100 aluminum adapter
Old taken apart
Old taken apart
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Can’t really tell the size difference from pics, how much bigger is it?
Ok guys
Do I put a turbo in my amc 4 banger truck?
I’m thinking about just giving it more oomph. Its a 5 speed but 5th is more or less an over drive as I can’t even blast down a half mile of road and get the truck to 85. Though it doesn’t NEED it, highway wise it’d probably be nice to have.
Or… Or I take the V8 hemi out of an old truck on the property.
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Yes…and then turbo the turbo!
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I was actually thinking of doing twin turbo as a meme but that’d either blow out the head or it’d bet 2 turbo’s that are so tiny and useless that there wouldn’t be a point.
Its so tiny o.o
that’s called a sequential turbo >_>
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You’re a sequential turbo
(Makse rx7 memes)
Oh wait soulfallen muted me.
wat dafaq u talkin bout
d-daddy! QWQ
It is hard to tell. The new one has a slightly larger compressor. I was trying to find out exactly, but there’s a lot of information out there. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, the old turbo is a VNT-15, the new is a VNT-17. 15 is stock on NA 90HP cars, 17 is stock on EU 150HP cars.
After some injectors and a new MAP sensor I’ll be able to do a stage 4 tune. 150HP, 270TQ.
https://malonetuning.com/ecu-tuning/audi-volkswagen/tdi/ve-tdi
It’s an itty bitty 1.9L turbo diesel. It’s a zippy little car.
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ftfw
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