Cerbera aftermarket gauges

[julian64]

Nope tried them for the gauge and it was a no go

[thefrog]

SPA repaired my gauge in record time, it was back in three days and cost approx £50 all in (VAT, postage, etc...) for the repair.

Following advice from previous posts, I took to the black spacer and dash aluminium panel with a dremel and managed to ocate the oil temp/water temp SPA gauge where the clock used to be. Had to remove quite a bit of material from the spacer, the aluminium panel on the other hand needed only the slightest skim.

Interestingly, talking to SPA, they mentioned that their case manufacturing process sometimes results in gauges being slightly oversize...

Anyway, it's all done now, pictures below.

Before:


After

[purpleliability]

That looks very useful!

Where did you plumb the temp sensors into and what did you use?

[thefrog]

purpleliability said:

That looks very useful!

Where did you plumb the temp sensors into and what did you use?

That was done by the previous owner, I didn't follow the sensor wiring back to the source so I'm afraid I don't know

[wurgle]

Salutations all,

I'm newish to the TVR club having got myself a Cerbera 4.5 back in February which in in need of some TLC.

I've been going through the jobs: clutch slave cylinder and clutch | fixing the door mech | oil catch tank | replacement carbon dash board | Lambda sensors | Spark plugs | Air filter | rear screen heater | air con | front disks and pads | fuel filter | crazy hazard light flashing | wiper blades | new headlight bulbs | cigar lighter socket | oil leak from air box | and MANY more to follow...

and photographing and will post at some point soon along with the problems and solutions.

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Anyhow to the thread matter in hand...
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My questions:

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(1) What senders should I replace the oil pressure / water temperature with and what adaptors do I need to buy / make?
(2) Where was the rather excellent photo of the Cerbera dash with the 3 SpA instruments appropriated from? The car must have a bunch of extra sensors fitted to drive them and it would be great to what how etc. this was done.

Background:

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I've made myself a new carbon fibre dash as the old one had flaking split wood. To remove the old one (even if I wanted to repair it) I need to disconnect the oil pressure & water temperature mechanical (mechanical arrgghhhh - why?) gauge.
Unfortunately the water temperature sensor in the engine, or the oil pressure connector on the gauge (not sure as it was my mechanic that tried). He also says its not reading too accurately.

Therefore in keeping with the carbon look I was thinking that rather than get the gauge fixed what I might do is replace it with a SpA (as I see others have done) or perhaps STACK or Race Logic.

As the radio cassette / CD auto changer player picks up a mixture of static and air traffic control I was going to ditch this in favour of a simple amplifier and a jack socket for a phone. The jack socket can go where the ashtray is I've replaced this with a carbon panel with a small extruded aluminium box behind. The amp can go somewhere meaning the radio area has room for say 3 more 52mm gauges.

New dash


Carbon mounts to glue to back of dash to hold PCB


New ash tray replacement