hope you all had a good time in Carlisle.
Maybe next year i can attend too. Of course not with a Vette as mine will be allready here in Europe.
But we planned to make our holidays for next year in USA.

Some news about the project.
As it evolves also new impressions and ideas pop up.
So this happened to me and Steven too.

I allready ordered for the gauges a whole set of gauge inlays in brushed gold. For me this looks still classic and will fit well with the exterior gold color and also the black carbon-like interior.
Of course the speedo inlay with MPH and Km/h will be used. For the tach the one with 6500RPM will be used as it is my final target to get reach the posibility to wind the engine up till there. Not no, but for the future.

Here a sample how brushed gold looks like:

For the illumination of all the instruments i ordered 11 red BA9 LED's. Guess will look cool and the hold longer then standard bulbs.

We decided to leave the original plan to cover the interior with carbon-like fiberglass.
Only the seats will be done in real black carbon-like fiberglass (about strenght and stiffness) and grey seat pads in leather.
For the rest we will instead use carbon-like Vinyl.
Much easier to apply, as the back is layed in a industrial adhesive which reacts with heat and time.
Allready several projects are done this way and it looks pretty cool.
Means the following parts get covered into:
- upper dashboard; black carbon-like Vinyl
- driver side dashboard; black carbon-like Vinyl
- passenger side dashboard; black carbon-like Vinyl
- shifter console; black carbon-like Vinyl
- brake console; black carbon-like Vinyl
- doorpanels; black carbon-like Vinyl
- wooden inserts in doorpanels; silver carbon-like Vinyl
The whole carpet will be in gray as a contrast to the rest.
How looks the black carbon-like Vinyl:



And the silver carbon-like Vinyl which go over the wooden door inserts:

Hope you like it and the idea.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

"Randy"

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Robert,
Both Rick and I have the white overlays over the stock gauges.
My take on them is that with the white leds, it leaves a blue hue and is a little difficult to see clearly...
I am going to completely replace my guages with a set of aftermaket set.
The carbon fibre vinyl stuff works good. several of us use it too.
Your project is coming along nicely!

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Randy,
did you have problems with the overlays while the white letters on the original gauges are a bit raised ?

And glad you like how the project is coming along.

Hope the gold and black letters will work well with the red LED's.
Somehow it should, but never know till tryed.
Hehe, anyway who wants to see the speedo. SMILE

Glad to know that Vinyl stuff really works well.
Steve came up with that idea and it seemed to be a good and easy way.
Till now only heard good things about it.
We will try even to cover the Air cleaner and Valve covers with it.
It resists till 150° Celsius, so somehow it should work.

They allready shipped the sheets out. So Steve should get them within the next days.
Can't wait to see the first piece covered and how it looks like.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

Quite some time since the last update.
This time only small steps about some parts which came in.

We was quite astonished how many faces were in the set delivered from Whitegauges.Net.
Was almost faces to do the gauges for 2 Vettes. Additional single gauges can be purchased for 4$/each.

This is the configiration my gauges will receive.
Yes i know, my car doesn't go till 6500RPM, but what isn't yet can become in future. At least is this that plan for someday.

Also the interior insulation from Vettenuts came in.
A real bargain from my point of view.
Very good quality for a pretty fair price.

While one Body mounting screw only wanted to release with brutal force and heavy tools, a new mounting bracket need to be purchased.

By a german company which is specialised in manufacturing cooling profiles i ordered 2 big cooling profiles for the hood domes.
They measure 620 x 220 x 15mm and will now be milled down to 10mm thickness and in front get the angle like the domes have.
Then a polish and clearcoat over it.
In case the car needs more cooling i can cut out the domes under the cooling profiles. But that's not planned.

All the brake parts for the front came from Muskegon Brakes.
I opted for O-Ring calipers while i trust more in O-rings then seals. And if one breaks, no big deal. Just let fabricate a new one.
Later on the also for the rear i will order new calipers and rotors from Muskegon.

I put up a new section with Company recommandations.
All those companys were those with which we had very pleasant communication, delivery service and a good price/quality range.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

And for the sidemarker lights ii would have liked not to make any decission but unfortunatelly it's a law in Europe that sidemarker lights need to be seen from a certain angle.
Well, i went with BMW series 3 LED sidemarkers.

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

Today after work had to see how they will fit and look in the grill section. And was again amazed how well the angles fit into it
Now have to fabricate a grill insert, the target is that only the frontglass can be seen and all the mechanics are covered.

the following functions were included in the units:
- standard light; big reflector inside
- beam light; big reflector outside
- fog light; small lower reflector
- siedemarker; small upper reflector
- Angel Eyes; around the 2 big reflectors
- lightbar; under the 2 big reflectors
- LED; up between the 2 big reflectors

If it really gets an issue about visibility there is still plenty of space to move the headlight grill section sidewards with a electric motor.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

Keep up the good work Robert !!!

You should try to "take delivery" of your baby in mid August and come to Carlisle. It's something every vettehead should do at least once. From there it's a three hour drive to Port Newark and the airport is so close you could walk to it from there.

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I was thinking the same thing. They are about the coolest thing I've ever seen in a C3 grill.

You should try to "take delivery" of your baby in mid August and come to Carlisle. It's something every vettehead should do at least once. From there it's a three hour drive to Port Newark and the airport is so close you could walk to it from there.

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Keith,
anyway the plan is to come to visit again USA.
And of course in summer.
Sure to visit Steve and his family, but also Carlisle is on the plan.
And my wife allready agreed. But if it's with the Mako, who knows.
If it's finished earlier guess i can't wait anymore to get it delivered here to Europe.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

In case some of you are interested, i purchased them by a german distributor.
But they're available by a californian distributor too, and in USA even way cheaper. I had to pay approximately 190$, and in USA they're only 139$.
Here's the link to the bay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/99-05-JETTA-CCFL-HALO-CLEAR-PROJECTOR-HEADLIGHT-HID-KIT-/130439723881?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&fits=Model%3AJetta&hash=item1e5ed03b69

One big adavanage too, while it's for a VW Jetta the lights will be available for sure the next 10 to 15 years.
Availability is for me a pretty important issue for all the parts.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/