Tilted installation of dials

[Hans Efde]

Not many Midas owners have extra instruments in their dashboard, but if you have this is how I made them tilt towards me. Aftermarket instrument pods are usually designed for the A-pillar or on top of the dashboard. Mine are built into a board above the glove box, so the tuning/styling industry came up with nothing. Standard diameter of instruments is 52mm. In the DIY store I found PVC connector sleeves for 60mm pipes. This sleeve had an internal diameter of 54mm, so perfect.
Because of the tilt I had to cut ellipses in a piece of board. With Coreldraw I made a perfect ellips template in a few minutes. Everything cut to size and shape, trial fitted, and used a hot glue gun to wrap it up in grey vinyl. Glued the pipes into place and cut the excess off. Instruments in place, connected and looks fine to me. Not yet perfect, but can't complain for a few hours work and 7 euros on material. Angle is about 50 degrees.

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[manifold]

Hi Hans,

Very neat little install there. I like it and cheap too .

Kind regards,

David