Started installing my HUD tonight
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Burning Brakes
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Actually it's a 65 but through speed trap central right over that little hill on a regular basis they can have from 2 - 5 of our friendliest Deputies and/or State troopers just waiting to pick people off like lambs to the slaughter
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I'ts a 35 but ya can't be a Pirate and not drive like a mad man
Actually it's a 65 but through speed trap central right over that little hill on a regular basis they can have from 2 - 5 of our friendliest Deputies and/or State troopers just waiting to pick people off like lambs to the slaughter
Actually it's a 65 but through speed trap central right over that little hill on a regular basis they can have from 2 - 5 of our friendliest Deputies and/or State troopers just waiting to pick people off like lambs to the slaughter
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Burning Brakes
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I just got in the aluminum gauge surrounds so that will be tonights project. Plus I have to move that Airbag light to the correct spot too... Kinda forgot to do that before I put the cluster back in. Next mod... hummm. I'm really wanting to sell my chrome Z06 wheels and go with new 19/20 mesh set up but trying to put off until after taxes are paid. Probably going to do what I can on the cheap...paint the rear lower part of the rear valance and paint my ugly azz brake calipers after that its going to be rear spoiler from wings west.
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Wasn't a huge deal to pull the dash but sure would have avoided if i knew that was posdible to do without doing so. I pulled it because that is how the how to install thread on the forum here described how to do it. How in the world would I get the projector mounted or the section of the dash cut out or the trim bezel secured without pulling the dash? How would I even know where the cut lines under dash pad were at if I didn't pull it out?
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Burning Brakes
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Really wasn't too bad. There is plenty of wire so you can pull the cluster out a pretty good ways. No you can't see but there is plenty of room for your hand behind it and you can feel the plug the release for the main plug is on the inside just push it in with your fingers and give it a little tug and it pops out. If you have HUD the plug is pressed in nothing to press. Putting it back in the tabs for the HUD plug face toward the cluster.
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Any info on the best price and availability to buy a HUD kit?
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Melting Slicks
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Thanks for the link buddy... I just took my cluster out this evening to have some gauge work done... Might as well get crazy and get to it. Thanks again and I hope mine comes out as clean as yours
Thanks for the link buddy... I just took my cluster out this evening to have some gauge work done... Might as well get crazy and get to it. Thanks again and I hope mine comes out as clean as yours
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Burning Brakes
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High Five! It's definitely worth it of you ask me especially since you've already yanked the cluster. It's really nice to have a constant reminder of how fast your going right there on your windshield. I don't find it distracting at all since at night I can turn the brightness down. $250 for everything is a deal! I paid a little over $300 for mine. That was with a new cluster, projector, dimmer switch and connector for the dimmer and I thought that was a deal.
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Nice job Pirate. After seeing how much has to be taken apart I'm really happy mine had HUD!!
I'm a road warrior and use my window mounted GPS exclusively in my truck. In the Corvette I don't know if I ever look at the dash!
I'm a road warrior and use my window mounted GPS exclusively in my truck. In the Corvette I don't know if I ever look at the dash!
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HUD replacement
tbrent - Ain't no thing but a chicken wing my friend High Five! It's definitely worth it of you ask me especially since you've already yanked the cluster. It's really nice to have a constant reminder of how fast your going right there on your windshield. I don't find it distracting at all since at night I can turn the brightness down.
$250 for everything is a deal! I paid a little over $300 for mine. That was with a new cluster, projector, dimmer switch and connector for the dimmer and I thought that was a deal.
High Five! It's definitely worth it of you ask me especially since you've already yanked the cluster. It's really nice to have a constant reminder of how fast your going right there on your windshield. I don't find it distracting at all since at night I can turn the brightness down. $250 for everything is a deal! I paid a little over $300 for mine. That was with a new cluster, projector, dimmer switch and connector for the dimmer and I thought that was a deal.