UPDATE:
As some of you may remember, last year my buddy Tom (69clark) cast me a set of his Sinis Engineering gauge rings with some leftover resin I had lying around. I spent probably 15 hours on them getting them perfect and ready to install. 3 days after I installed them, the rings cracked as a result of shitty old resin, which resulted in the cluster glass to crack as well. No fault of Tom's at all, just shitty resin I gave him.
I was so pissed of with the damn rings, I never fixed them and they have been like that for over a year. On my recent quest to mintify my car, I asked Tom if he could cast me another set of rings to replace the originals. The great guy that Tom is, he had the resin ordered, rings cast, and they were sitting on my desk at work just over a week later!!
Here's a few quick pics of the process:
Fresh rings after I cleaned away all the mold flashing and sanded them to 320...
New bezel from American Muscle with the glass CAREFULLY separated (an hour with a dremel and a cutoff wheel on low speed)...at this point I had also sprayed a coat of guide coat on the rings to help find all the imperfections before bondo...
Initial test fit of the painted rings in the new bezel. I primed, sealed, and painted the basecoat with Dupont Nissan Silver Frost that I mixed with our new mixing system at work...
Rings glued in place...I placed plastic wrap between the bezel and the gauge cluster so that any glue that splooged out would go on the plastic wrap, not the gauge faces...
Glass expoxied in place...
FINAL PRODUCT!!!
Installed pics to come tomorrow!!
Monday my brushed stainless rad cover is coming in, as well as an order of detailing supplies from CG to prepare for a full paint correction next weekend for the American Muscle show! I also scored a set of almost new Magnaflow low profile metallic spun cats to replace the gutted ones that I currently have. The car is just slightly too loud right now for a daily driver.
STAY TUNED!