kenamond
DSM Wiseman
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- Feb 15, 2006
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Los Alamos,
New_Mexico
Okay, I don't have the rep points to post this in the turbo forum, so I'll do it here.
I wouldn't be suprised if someone has done this already, but I didn't find anything like it in a forum search.
My 2G talon has a blank in one of the dash buttons (my guess is that it was for the sun/moonroof option that I didn't get when I bought the car in October, 1996).
I can't resist the temptation to add a button in this location and wire a dual stage boost controller (like the TurboXS Dual Stage MBC) switch to it.
So what I need is a spare dash switch (they are the same shape, so maybe any of those rounded-parallelogram-buttons will work - like a defroster button from a junkyard find). I'm no electrical engineer, but I would hope that this could be adapted.
Next step: clean off the stock text from the switch and replace it with the word, "Oomph!" I'm not sure how to get a clean graphic on the button in matching (or maybe contrasting red) paint, but having the same font, etc. would be killer. Of course, other creative folk can come up with a different graphic for the button.
So the idea is to select your high boost controller setting with "Oomph!" depressed, and your normal, rush-hour traffic, lower boost controller setting with "Oomph!" non-depressed. When you want/need more oomph, press the "Oomph!" button, dummy!
I am a true "sleeper" fan, so having a button that blends perfectly into the stock background is extremely appealing to me.
I also have some ideas for a spare panel for extra gauges, but I have to search the forum and do a bit more proof-of-concept-investigation to make sure that the ideas are new and will work before I post them.
If anyone goes off and does this (before I do), post a picture of the result (and give me some rep points so that I can post on the other forums like a man
). If someone else has posted this already, forgive my forum-search-retardation, inform me of my blunder, and give the link to the thread. Then I can atleast see how someone else did it and may learn something handy about the idea.
I wouldn't be suprised if someone has done this already, but I didn't find anything like it in a forum search.
My 2G talon has a blank in one of the dash buttons (my guess is that it was for the sun/moonroof option that I didn't get when I bought the car in October, 1996).
I can't resist the temptation to add a button in this location and wire a dual stage boost controller (like the TurboXS Dual Stage MBC) switch to it.
So what I need is a spare dash switch (they are the same shape, so maybe any of those rounded-parallelogram-buttons will work - like a defroster button from a junkyard find). I'm no electrical engineer, but I would hope that this could be adapted.
Next step: clean off the stock text from the switch and replace it with the word, "Oomph!" I'm not sure how to get a clean graphic on the button in matching (or maybe contrasting red) paint, but having the same font, etc. would be killer. Of course, other creative folk can come up with a different graphic for the button.
So the idea is to select your high boost controller setting with "Oomph!" depressed, and your normal, rush-hour traffic, lower boost controller setting with "Oomph!" non-depressed. When you want/need more oomph, press the "Oomph!" button, dummy!
I am a true "sleeper" fan, so having a button that blends perfectly into the stock background is extremely appealing to me.
I also have some ideas for a spare panel for extra gauges, but I have to search the forum and do a bit more proof-of-concept-investigation to make sure that the ideas are new and will work before I post them.
If anyone goes off and does this (before I do), post a picture of the result (and give me some rep points so that I can post on the other forums like a man
). If someone else has posted this already, forgive my forum-search-retardation, inform me of my blunder, and give the link to the thread. Then I can atleast see how someone else did it and may learn something handy about the idea.
? i thought fog light switches were off to the left. idk.
at ricers with them. If you had a DSMLink or SAFCII like someone else saying then you could just switch between high boost setting and normal everyday boosting...if you have access to a cutting ploter then you could have the text cut for you then you stick it to the button...did it on my 4 wheeler when I ripped the "YAMAHA" off of one of the fenders and it looked perfect.
