Been awhile! Sold my house a month back, and am living with the GF. We are currently building a 2020 Sprinter, so that's taking a lot of my spare time. I did get a little time with the truck recently though. A few developments.
Landed on the color: Going to go with GMC's Pacific Blue Metallic. I've seen it a few times and love it.
The color precipitated a name change. It was Ghost, because I was going to do it in white/offwhite. The color made me lean towards Poseidon for a name. The GF suggested "Ghost of Poseidon," and that's where I landed. Going to do a darker build, lots of black accents, and limited brightwork.
I tore out the wiring yesterday because it needs a full rewire. Going with the American Autowire Hwy 22 kit. The previous owner did some creative stuff for sure:
Since I took the gauges out I figured I'd replace them with new ones. To go along with the theme I'm choosing black gauges, with the tach being red. I'm incorporating my company logo into the tach and will incorporate the Ghost of Poseidon Badge into the speed, once it's done. What I have now is a mockup, but it's close.
Instead of using the stock bezel I wanted to go with something a little different. Ring bro's makes a nice bezel out of aluminum, but it's $500. There is a carbon one you can but into for $260+, but . . . I really felt something unique calling.
I spent a few hours today in Fusion to recreate the bezel. I still need to model in the mounting holes. But here is what I came up with:
And here it is rendered with the gauges (though this render was before I added more indicator light locations:
Will have to print in two parts and assemble. If I don't like the seam line I may see someone about cutting it from aluminum and then powder-coating it.
That's all for now! Cheers all!