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Old Jul 5, 2005 | 03:30 PM
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I love the way the Ferrari Enzo looks. It only has the Tach in color and the rest in black. I decided to do the same to my C4S. What do y'all think?
 
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Old Jul 5, 2005 | 03:35 PM
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Outstanding - points for doing something very unique. It is very eye catching.
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 03:39 PM
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I like it, who sells only 1 gadge cover?
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 03:56 PM
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I searched everyone and check with everyone and no one sells just one. Brandywine gave me a good deal for the under car B&M SSK with the full set of guage faces together so I did it. I now have the rest of them unused.

Awesome driving in the day time. When doing spirited driving, the other guages are useless.
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 04:07 PM
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thats very cool, you may be a trendsetter around here!
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 04:18 PM
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MAJOR style points! I like it a lot. Only thing I'd add would be the silver gauge trim rings...

nice!
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 04:52 PM
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Sorry. Never liked the siver rings. I felt it's a distraction. I'm all for the Porsche philosophy. Having the tach in the center and make it the most important part of the guages.
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 05:02 PM
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Looks great!

I've noticed the markings on colored face gauges don't light as brightly as standard black face gauges, is there a noticible difference between yellow and black at night?

Ditto on the trim rings.
 
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Yes. There is a difference at night. There is even a difference in the day time. There just nothing beats the contrast of black and white. But I am willing to live with it because I think color is cool.

It took me a few tries to get that shot. The numbers reflect the flash like there is no tomorrow.

Another cool thing (at least I think) is that the high beam indicator is now green instead of blue. Yellow and blue makes green. I'm sure other colors might come out other colors.
 
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I like is as well, have you thought about changing the needle to a different color (ie blue of black)??
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 06:33 PM
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that looks awesome. i thought of doing that with silver since my car is silver. was it a difficult install..... i may get it done if i think i can handle it!
 
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No other color needles in the future. I like it just the way it is.

Installation is very easy. The problem is that you can't go back to original if you don't like it. I'll do a write up later on how to change it and explain the details.
 
Old Jul 5, 2005 | 10:47 PM
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I've done the write up. Not very pretty but hope it helps.

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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 06:33 AM
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Nice write up Alex.
Nice change. I did mine a while back but did all the gauges.
 
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Very nice. I like it.
 


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