where can i find vent mounted gauges? Is it pretty simple to install and wire them up? im just running out of space, I don't have AC and i don't want to mount them on top of the dash. Pics too PLEASE.

no one...not one person has these?

Refer to the "Vent Gauge" DIY link in my signature.

check out Bimmer World's website. I think they have what you are looking for:

http://store.nexternal.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=bimmerworl&BusType=BtoC&Count1=820202052&Count2=737342476&CategoryID=13&Target=products.asp

scroll down, second from the bottom - E36 Carbon Center Dash Plate

I tried to make my own and I was not too happy with the results.

sorry for the shitty pic.

used abs textured plastic, then heated it to make the bend. i still use my ac/heat so i needed to keep the hot/cold.

Install was easy, but i also used the UUC oil cap so the oil temp/pressure senders was as simple as bolting on. i taped under the fuse box for the headlight fuse to light the gauges.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4725/bmw2007001sx3.jpg

id like the center vent to still be functional - ive seen e30 setups, but not e36

I used an extra vent I had laying around, cut out the inside, filled it with some foam, then smoothed it over with some bondo. Then I wraped it with pleather.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b54/Dimension318/318ti%20Build/IMG_1118.jpg

For having a semi-stripped out track car, that's a pretty clean gauge install! :)

it's a work in progress, as well as a daily >: )

work in progress??


http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1145-1/DSC02970.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1147-1/DSC02971.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1149-1/DSC02972.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1151-1/DSC02973.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1153-1/DSC02974.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1155-1/DSC02975.JPG
http://www.nceuromotorsports.com/gallery2/d/1157-1/DSC02976.JPG

Is that a custom wide body or is it a kit?

its custom

I just completed a center vent/radio DIN install project. I know it's more on the "race" end of things but I have a CAD drawing that you can print out 1:1, paste on your favorite material and cut out. You just have to brake it where indicated and bend roughly 13deg and it should fit like a glove. It covers the center vent(which you remove)and extends down to fill the radio DIN. It uses the brace at the top of the radio din for mounting screws(2). I got 6 gauges in it.....5- 2" and a XD-16 w/b gauge.

I used 6061 Alumimum at .061" thk but you could use whatever.....just remember, the thicker the material leave more on the bottom.

I'll post a pix here and if anyone wants it just shoot me a PM. I can send it in a PDF or ACAD format(dwg, dxf). You can view/print it with any ACAD free "viewer" type program...just remember to print it 1:1 on paper and you can use it as a trace.

Don

Why doesn't someone try something like this?

http://awe-tuning.com/media/products/awe/awe_omori_vent_interior.jpg

^^ thats kinda what i was thinking

Why doesn't someone try something like this?



Someone has...post #3. If you mean why isn't a vendor making something like that it's because of payback.

Don