PureRage

items used: x-mas mini led lights! (less than 1 euro... lol) old 12v transformer (set to 3v that the lights use) piece of plexiglass white spraypaint i copied the form of the dash dials on the plexiglass. sprayed the back white drilled holes around the edge (just outside of the visible ring on the dial) soldered the 12v - 3v transformer to the back of the dash on the + and - of a dash light fitting scanned the orignal dials onto my pc. edited them to my liking and printed them on transparant overhead viewer paper. cut them out and placed them on top of the white dial cut out

yeps, have been on the tgtt forum for a couple of years as Rage (name was taken here) thought i might post the story here aswell

thx lads, working on a major update but that will take some time before i can start my work on that. used a few scrap pieves of plexiglass for the dials and used overheadprojector sheets to print the dials on. just scanned the original dials, photoshopped them to my liking, printed, cut them to size. did you check out the link of the dash pics for some more detail on how i made them? feel free to ask anything you want to know about it

thx for the comments lads! thought it might make an amusing read through the ups and downs of owning her coulden't have done it without my workshop. makes working on longer projects much much easier

thx guys

thx james it's an ongoing story and far from done

a while later... i decided to take my hood off for a good spring cleaning all cleaned: and coulden't resist taking a spraycan to it and disaster struck yet again! was only a matter of time... found the limit of a glanza rod was flooring her, 1.1 bar boost, 7200rpm. snap went the rod, tore a hole in the block and sump. it was a violent death with lots of unhealthy noises, smoke and flying carparts. the only way a engine should go out if you ask me so, here we are again, in the workshop, prepping for surgery to find out what can be salvaged a familliar sight: bottom o

started to notice the lack of engine information in the car so decided to make a custom center console with gauges in it boost, smallband air/fuel, exhaust temp water temp, oil temp, oil press. how to make a console little winter project on my dash. those are xmas led lights i love to use things for what they weren't intended for cost me a grand total of 5 euro's to build, talk about major investments xmas dashbord pics and then disaster struck. due to a driver error (going around the roundabout a few times and flooring it straight after) the engine suffored oil starvation

Where to begin... A long long time ago (februari 2005) i bought a little old starlet ep81 NA. with just 150.000km on the clockPurpose of the car was a pure and simple commuter from home to work. and this is what she looked like (booooring) in case you find a certain part of my project car interesting there are links that will take you to my photo albums on picasa. more pics from when i bought the old gal slowly i found out that there were little things i could mod on the car. changed the grill, rims, spoilers, dash etc. etc. more pics of the first mods then i wanted to redo the interior. i

Hi all, i'm martin, 31 years young and i'm an addict will be posting the whole story soon but thought it best to introduce myself first have had a starlet for 9 years now and she started out as a simple NA car. this is the little machine as she stands now: any questions plz don't hesitate to ask