60mm A-pillar guage pod made.

[stapo69]

After finding a suitable boost guage, 60mm Swoosh backlit red, may not get these in the states though, on good old ebay, I set about finding somewhere to mount it. A lot of people chop em into the vents, but don't always like to follow the masses, plus a 60mm was a tight squeeze anyway, I decided to see if I could knock summit up for the A-pillar, and I reckon it turned out pretty bob on!

Thought I'd post up a few pics to give people an idea of what I did, pretty simple really in the end. If you can't find what you want.......make it yourself!

Bought this with the guage.



Chopped it up to fit like this.



Then stretched some old t-shirt cloth over it to form nice natural curves.





Then coat with fibre glass resin, once dry and hard trimmed it up.





Then a quick wipe over with some filler to smooth out any imperfections



Blasted a bit of spare primer over it to tidy it up, waiting for some black headlining to arrive to recover the whole pillar for a nice OEM look, but wanted it in and fitted to see the result.





Looks pretty good at night too, a good match.



There we go, done! Hope you all like, I'll put the covered pic up when it's done.

[AudiXS4X01]

Great Job! Looks awesome

[mholme]

Looks good. I've done the same thing but I haven't recovered yet. Where did you find the factory headliner material? My last resort is to dye some A4 headliner material, but I doubt it will be a perfect match.

[highPSI-S4]

Nice DIY

[McKennaS4]

haha looks badass RHD always requires a second glance.

[stapo69]

Looks good. I've done the same thing but I haven't recovered yet. Where did you find the factory headliner material? My last resort is to dye some A4 headliner material, but I doubt it will be a perfect match.

I was lucky, a guy on audi-sport.net found me a wrecked S3 and cut me out the whole black headlining. Took ages to find though. I was also thinking of dying some grey lining too if I hadn't got the right lining, don't see why it would be hard to get looking good.

[Rajan147]

stapo69,

when you stretched the t-shirt over and applied the resin, did you add any fiber matting or was the t-shirt sufficent.

Silly question but what kind of filler did you use?

I wanted to try my hand at some fiber glass work but never really found a project other than a sub box.

[stapo69]

Didn't use any fibre glass matting, brushed a good amount of resin on, which soaked into the cloth, and when hard I did brush another layer over the top, and when cured it was as solid as a thick piece of plastic.

As for filler it was just some normal smooth finish body filler I had laying around. Called P38 over here, probably like your bondo type stuff, usually yellow or primer grey.

[stapo69]

Finally finished it off, covered in black roof lining.

[raketeS4]

looks good... i love diy projects

[Rated S]

Very tasty. Looks really good.

[Das General]

that is bob on!