If you're a DIYer, watch some YouTube videos on vacuum-forming. It's easy and cheap to do. You can get a junkyard 1st gen pillar panel(so as not to mess up yours), glue a cheap import car aftermarket gauge pillar pod to it, use bondo or fiberglass to fill in the differences between the pod and the Dodge pillar panel. Test fit it, and make sure everything clears the dash/glass/roof/etc, make your adjustments.

Then make your vacuum-forming box and get a sheet of ABS plastic to lay over the "custom pillar". Heat the sheet, vacuum-form it, let it set, cut away the excess & cut out the gauge holes, then put 4 small mounting screws through it to fasten it to your stock pillar panel, toss your gauges in it, and call it done. You'll have a custom pillar pod for the cost of materials that nobody else makes, but made the same way as the ones everyone else bought.

Seems like a lot of work, but it's not really. Plus you can use the box to vacuum form lots of new parts you never thought of before. Also, you can have pride in the fact that you MADE the part.

 

You can always go electric; get an electric pressure gauge and an electric temperature gauge and switch between senders.

 

i think thats a really ugly way to mount gauges IMO. especially putting them on the windshield cowl OUTSIDE of the truck. it makes a sloppy install and you can see all your wiring. but thats just my $.02

 

That fuel pressure guage mounted on the cowl is a common sight on race cars. Since that gauge doesn't have an isolator to mount it inside the cockpit, it has fuel running through that braided hose all the way to the gauge. Mounting it outside the car is a safety thing...incase the sucker bursts open and spits fuel all over you!

I don't like the Lazersmith gauge mounts either...they look like there was no thought put into them and just plain hokey.

 

Oh I hear ya on the Lazersmith stuff too. I don't like the exposed wire loom either. I came across that site when I was looking for front end stuff. I was posting a another alternative for some. Some people do not like the traditional mounts.

John

 

i think i got my isolator kit from valcan performance,went to a manual isspro guage wen i put my AD 165 in the truck

 

You have any pics of this setup?

 

Here ya go !! sorry i had it up but i deleted it from my album and didnt know it would take it off of the thread

 

Seems like that thing sits real high up off the dash, not sure how much it would be in the way with my short butt in the seat.

 

Yeah, no kidding. I really need to screw some big chunks of aluminum all over the interior.

Here's how I added a few gauges with some custom bracketry and just screwing them onto/into the column and dash:

http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/PhotoAlbu...cs/CTD_196.jpg
http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/PhotoAlbu...cs/CTD_197.jpg
http://stuff.is-a-geek.net/PhotoAlbu...ics/CTD_38.jpg

The boost gauge blocks viewing the high beam indicator straight on, but other than that they are in direct line of sight and don't obstruct the driver's view at all.