BLACK RALLY GAUGES

[inviolet]

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know of any company that makes a rally dash overlay to change the wood grain to black? A friend of a friend has his painted. My paint skills are not that good.

[dutch]

that looks great... I might just go that way too.   why don`t you ask your friend to paint yours?

[inviolet]

Its a friend of a friend and it may be a while before he gets to it.

[70burntorangeT/A]

ChallengerGary might beable to make you one

[CUDA JAS]

I like the way your freind thinks.

I am working on installing this on my car.

It really is not that hard.  Tape off all the silver parts you do not want black (if you wnat to polish them like you freind di do that first), scuff the woodgrain areas with a scuff pad and spray bomb.

It never hurts to tyr it!

Good luck,

[dutch]

nice... 

[426HEMI]

Looks pretty good but not sure I would want to do that to mine.

[MEK-Dangerfield]

I like the way your freind thinks.

I am working on installing this on my car.

It really is not that hard.  Tape off all the silver parts you do not want black (if you wnat to polish them like you freind di do that first), scuff the woodgrain areas with a scuff pad and spray bomb.

It never hurts to tyr it!

Good luck,

The original woodgrain bezel had the rings around the gauges painted brown. Did you sand off the brown paint and polish the aluminum? That really looks good.   

  Mike

[AprilsPink72Cuda]

Wow, they look really nice in black!

[CUDA JAS]

The original woodgrain bezel had the rings around the gauges painted brown. Did you sand off the brown paint and polish the aluminum? That really looks good.   

  Mike

Thanks,

Yep, I stripped the brown paint with a red scuff pad (scotch bright pad)..it takes a while, that old paint is really on there.

I was going to polish them, but the scuff pad left a great spun aluminim finish to the surround, so I left it like that (it takes a bit of a carefull touch to make sure all the scuff marks are going in the same direction, but it looks cool, and matches the finish on my TT wheels!)  It reraly does not shoe that well in the pics thou.

I just wanted something different from the wood grain.  I hope it looks good all together.

I also removed the woodgrain from the center console.

Jas

[dutch]

hey Jas,
nice interior    what`s that , part cloth, part leather?

[CUDA JAS]

hey Jas,
nice interior    what`s that , part cloth, part leather?

Thanks, part vinyl part cloth (like a velour), all hot in the summer!

I wish I could take credit for it, it was that way when I bought the car many many moons ago.

Jas

[dodge freak 2]

I would try to find another panel  on E-bay and paint the one in worst shape and keep the best wood grain one alone....you may want to change it back someday.

I agree many things look nicer than the factory did but sometimes you just need a change...both ways look great in my opinion.

[Chryco Psycho]

looks great in Black  , I guess I need to start looking for a spare dash panel LOL

[72bluNblu]

This is a little off topic, but since you all seem to have rallye gauges I was wondering what the gauge diameter is? Maybe looking into using a rallye bezel with aftermarket gauges...

thanks!