Back from my "holiday" cruise. Attached is a pic of the guage pod from my son's 300D. Analog guage for WVO fuel Tank, digital guage for H2O temp and digital guage for WVO temp. This was one of our early fits. Later pods had a finer fit.

The new Cruise ship looked wonderfull and she handled well. However you can only spend so much time eating steak and lobster along the European coast before...you get to the UK and get thrown off so paying passengers can get onboard.

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That does look pretty good. Got any more pictures? Maybe one of those "later" installs? I'd particularly be interested in seeing the top end of the pod assembly where it wraps around the column.

BTW, I got a response from the sales guy at the company I've been working with on this. He says he doesn't have ANYTHING that will closely match the curvature of the top end of the pillar. So I guess I'm back to square one...

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I think it was back in the 60`s or early 70`s they had the tachs mounted on the hood on some of performance cars.
maybe something could be mounted on the hood and molded in. then you could keep your eyes on the road.

might need of pretty large gauges for some of us older folks .

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I will get some pics of my other PODs installs. The other MBs are on a trip now.

Celebrity & Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines do run on WVO (sorta). Both fleets take the used Waste veggie oil from onboard and filter/burn it in with the bunker fuel. A portion of the fleets use Gas Turbine engines (jet turbines from GE). These engines have been "tweaked" to run on biodiesel.

For the last couple of years RCCL (parent company of the fleets) were the single largest user of biodiesel in most of the world.

any new updates on the gauges? if i knew how to post pics on this forum id take a few pics of the single pod i got for my boost gauge and where i put my voltmeter

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Hi! First post here. I went with individual pods on my old car, 4 on the pillar, 2 on the column, and 2 in the ash tray location. Too many gauges for a generic pod to take care of my needs.

The pillar looked great until I caught the topmost gauge with my head, then it looked ok. I had to move the gauge down a bit for a better mounting location. Angle was never just right with them anyway, but it worked well enough to not be noticed generally.

Currently working on making myself a more refined pillar pod for this, the individual pods are very hard to clean, and the pillar is not a great long term attachment place.

The column was a great place, if you had an aftermarket steering wheel, I could see as many as 4, but two fit very nicely with the oem wheel. Ash tray also worked pretty well, but again, as said earlier in the thread, not a great place to constantly be looking while driving. Better location for less important gauges.

my 2 cents.

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