Time for Gauges, What should I consider??? Options

[Cairo94507]

Hi everyone- Scotty just sent me my original Six gauges so I can take them to Palo Alto Speedometer and have them restored. So the speedometer is pretty straight forward, it will just be totally restored and the existing mileage retained as it is the true mileage of the car and worked until the car was taken apart.

The tachometer is a different story. It will be restored and converted to work with the 3.2 Motronic motor going in the car. I am also considering having an oil pressure gauge installed into the tachometer, similar to the turbo gauges on the 930's. I figured that was the most obvious place to put this critical gauge. I am curious what other people think about that though. So please let me know your thoughts.

Now the last gauge is going to convert to a triple gauge. I am thinking oil temp, cylinder head temp and possibly amps. I want that gauge to retain a fairly stock look with the typical 914-6 warning lights and symbols in it.

The fuel gauge is going to move down to the storage compartment right below the dash bottom with possibly another gauge next to it. I really do not want to add a clock but can't really think of another gauge for that position. I would like to have two gauges in the storage box for balance.

Please feel free to add your thoughts. Of course we will be keeping the silver dot feature of these gauges.

Here is my stock tachometer:

[Cairo94507]

So, I know what I think I want but this is one of those things where I believe it never hurts to ask questions first so I don't have one of those "I could've had a V-8" moments later.

Case on point, "914forme" brought up Speedhut for gauges. That is intriguing as it could give me new electronics possibly. I have contacted them and am awaiting their reply to see if they can take my gauges and install all new electronics in them or if they actually have a gauge that replicates the stock gauges from our cars. Granted that may be a reach.

In evaluating the gauges I want, I agree it is oil pressure, oil temperature, volts, tach with 3.2 redline, speedo and fuel. So given that, it would appear I could do a triple gauge with gas, volts and temperature and then add the oil pressure into the tach (hopefully). I would then not need any additional gauges.

I really do want to change the speedometer to have a new odometer that will not roll back to zero when the car hits 100K as my car is only 10K away from that give or take. Not sure how others feel about that but my mileage is documented and I want it to remain accurate. The new odometer, if that is possible, would be set to my existing mileage.

Thanks for your patience and assistance. I always respect (intelligent (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif) ) opinions and appreciate your experience.