EPISODE 78 - From Classic to Cutting-Edge: Upgrading My Holden HZ GTS Dash with 3D Printed Gauges.
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- This episode is a showcase of the last 2 months of work reverse engineering old gauges from a Holden HZ GTs Dash AND 3D printing old style and retro style housing for modern gauges.
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Good work barnsy unbelievable what you can get done with today's technology not easy but you have cracked it again love your work I'll wait to see how to get the gages
Thanks mate, yes a hard project but well worth the end result. I actually started a website called Unicq.com.au to sell the kits as well so if you want any info on the gauges as well they are on there. Cheers
Nice work Barnesy. I've been doing similar stuff for the LH/LX Torana dash clusters for a few years and love seeing similar work being done for other models. Good onya. Great video and great product.
@@Hezath thanks Heath, I actually just watched your Torana segment on Fullboost. What a machine you have created there, beautiful build, I take my hat off to you for seeing it through. I saw the gauge mod you did on that as well, looked awesome! Thanks mate
Thank you! Haha. As you would know, getting that far took a lot of time and effort!
Great, thank you, awesome
Thanks mate👍
I'm not even a Holden nut, but i have a HQ ute and watching Barnesy's Builds has helped me a lot, through his videos I have learnt a few things watching him fumbling his way around and working things out, It's like we are in the same boat, Thanks Barnesy.
Thanks mate, glad the vids have helped a long the way.👍
Well done 👍 top work
Most impressed mate!
Thanks mate 👍
That was awesome. Thx for making a vid of it and sharing!
Your welcome 👍
Awesome stuff man well done.
Man of many talents, great effort..Shout out to the good man who sent you the gauge housings for a loaner..
Yes indeed, a awesome gesture, and very thankful.
wow that was very cool, I might be adding parts to your list. this could turn into a full time job 😁😁
Bring it on I say!
Very nice mate. It will be very rewarding when the lights come on and engine fires. Keep on keeping on.
Seems like it will never come but keep working towards it!
Fantastic job great work
Cheers Dave
Thanks mate👍
Great job Aaron, they look awesome. Still waiting to see the first start up though. 😀
Thanks, yes I know majorly dragging it out, fuel system is next then she's firing up!
What a brilliant job Barnesy! Unreal. How good was the guy in Sydney to lend you the gauges, well done mate.
Would certainly be interested in a set down the track. Sounds like you have found a new career path. Thanks for sharing Barnesy👍👍
Thanks mate, it's defintely in my confort zone and i enjoyed the process, sure will have them packaged up for sale soon based on peoples reactions i reckon.
Those adapters came up mint Barnesy, good job!
Thanks! 👍
Hi Barnesy great job. I added autometer gauges to my panel van with 3d printed parts from Ben in Gippsland but instead of a clock I fitted a high beam, left and right turn and alt warning light, I discovered you need the alt warning light to excite the alternator.
Yeah nice, I saw there were a couple of blokes doing them but I didn't get a response from my enquiries so I gave up and decided to make my own. The ones I got have the indicator lights in the Speedo which saves some stuffing around, hopefully not painful to hook up.
You should be offering these for sale in your merch store. Find a 3d printer farm to produce them and drop ship them to customers.
Or even just sell the 3d files for it :)
Yeah I was aiming to put them online this week for purchase but the drop ship option is a good idea as well, saves hours of printing. Cheers
@BarnesysBuilds I'd like to buy the 3d files
The files aren't for sale sorry just prints.
I’d like a set 👍
Good video, love it
Thanks mate👍
That’s a rippa 😎
Thanks 👍
great video. there was another bloke doing this selling them on the Holden pages Ian Benjamin I bought a set they were rubbish nothing lined up. I bought his adapters and I bought a set to speedhut gauges to suit. cost me 2k. got the shirts sold it all and went back to factory. great work Barnsey.
Yeah I knew there were a couple of blokes doing them but no one got back to my enquiries so I was literally at a loose end and decided to just make my own. Taking the time to make sure they have the ability to align mount points for that 1-2mm adjustment you need to get them bang on.
I nearly spat my coffee out when you said the asking price for a GTS gauge cluster. Damn I remember when you could pick them up for $100.
Ha! I know it's actually ludicrous now
@@BarnesysBuilds they weren't all that easy to find back then. I wound up getting a HX Statesman dash for my HQ coupe. But that was back in the days where you had to keep an eagle eye on the Trading Post for such things. When they did turn up they weren't very dear. Now I can imagine they are getting pretty rare, not many people scraping cars like they did back in the day.
I nearly spat my coffee when he mentioned the asking price then proceeded to disassemble them with a steak knife 😂
@@genuinegoatblower😂 doing what I can with what I got! I didn't have a screw driver small enough at the time, but the steak knife worked well
Nice work Barnesy!
Thanks mate👍
@@BarnesysBuilds While your video was playing I was thinking of little oled displays that can be driven by an esp32 or similar micro and was thinking that might work well to recreate the original look of the meters. The Ebay units you got though are pretty hard to beat and a hell of a lot easier to implement and maintain. Good luck with the 3D side of things. You obviously know this shit very well.
@@BenMitro that's actually a great idea, I know you can get the OLED in the large round ones but haven't seen the small. How you would make it work would also be beyond me but I'm sure a coder could get it working to the digital output.
@@BarnesysBuilds ChatGPT for the code? I've gotten it to do some coding for the ESP32 and it works well after a couple of tries.
Defintly worth a look, i have a mate at work whos all over the code side of the electronics so i've mentioned to him it might be cool to try sometghing with some code and screens to drive he gauges.
Gday, having a 3d printer is a must, I was offered a Creality ender3 v2 to review and I honestly thought I’d never use it, well shit I was wrong there, it’s always printing something, i use fusion360 and if you can draw you can print it, I’d love to have a go at scanning one day to, brilliant job mate, cheers
Thanks mate, yeah I tried Fusion 360 but found it a decent learning curve but could see it's parametric design is very powerful compared to old cinema 4D! I was going to get an ender as well and then the K1 came out and it's such a well made machine.
No love? lets get {scanning} 6:51
crack'n flat blade screw driver though, classic safety for a classic vehicle
You can't underestimate a good steak knife mate😂
Well done Barnesy, the series is great. I’m doing a Wb Ute and you are providing plenty of motivation. Where did you get the metal burnishing wheel that you were using in the first few episodes? Looks a lot better than using an angle grinder with a stripping
disc. Keep up the good work and look forward to end result. Loved the paddock circle work in the first few episodes.👍
Thanks mate, it's a the long haul series that's for sure! Hope to finish it this year though. The burnishing machine can be grabbed from eBay now, it's great for prepping metal for paint and removing surface rust etc. or paint. Although years later I would now just get a car hot dipped or sand blasted if you can afford it, way faster and less hassle. If not then paint strip then burnish the remaining. Yeah used to get the ute out in a few B&S balls back in the day! Cheers
Hi Aaron,
I was looking at 3D printing up a reproduction tail light bracket, then I had the thought of why put globes in it. So am looking for a 75mm x 75mm LED panel i can mount behind the standard lens. Still a work in progress.
That sounds like a good work around for the globes. Would be interested to see how it turns out. Yeah the tail light housings are on the list to just do stock reproduction though. It's a big part as you know so need a hefty size printer or go vertical but lot of supports to print
@@BarnesysBuildsThat tail light mount would be a good thing. Mine are brittle and not much is holding the lenses in. You can get the lense but not the bucket. I managed to get 4 new old stock lenses years ago when Holden still had dealers with stock. Good work with the gauges Barnesy, can you pick the ‘icons’ on the cluster out in white? I have a spare cluster mount with the same lug broken off. I am having trouble with my temp gauge, it has been done up but won’t go right up to temp. The repairer got my oil gauge working but made the temp gauge worse. I have replaced the sender and have another gauge which registers the same which would lead you to believe it is in the wiring somewhere. Maybe the earth. What you are doing there is gold, no other manufacturer ever came up with a dash that looked as good as the Holden Sports Dash. Jeff
That's really cool. If you want to make yourself some $$, try your hand at reproducing VL Commodore instrument cluster rear housings, as the tabs snap off.
Yeah happy to add them to the list, you got a part to scan?
I bet you learned how to "Level the fskin bed" and where is that damned draught coming from warping the print ?
Yeah I noticed you have an enclosure. I had to use Cardboard Aided Design to make an enclosure for my Chiron (400 x 400) and pump the bed heat up crazy high when using ABS. When I did finally get a decent print it smashed the glass on the cool down ! (70 hour print).
You made using the scanning app look easy too but it really isn't.
I use FreeCAD on Linux (Ubuntu).
You done a great job though dude.
The gauges look well Pukka.
Thanks mate, yes there was hours and hours of trial and error not included in that time lapse, it was a really steep learning curve and lots of parts from china as I went along to get the machines dialled. Now they are dialled and working well but yes ABS is very challenging at the start, now I have the techniques sorted and have a filament I'm satisfied with I can print really confidently. Looking forward to seeing where this tech goes in the future.
Top stuff Barnesy would you consider making sets to sell?
Yes actually I just got them online this week, you can find them at www.unicq.com.au
With regard to the badges, you can chrome plate them
I saw you can electroplate the plastic prints but quite a process it seems and still would show the print lines. I think I need a resin printer to or injection mould it.
I saw some sample resin prints at Jaycar and I was blown away at how smooth they were. Did not look anything like the 'hot' method prints.
Hey Barnesy, do you think you could scan and then customise the fascia panel? Im looking for ways to make a completely custom fascia panel without the heater vents. Aiming for a smooth look...
I think some bloke just did that on a the hz wb Facebook group, it didn't look the same as the original dash just flat folded metal I think. If you wanted to keep the original dash and print and plastic weld heater blanks in yes you could do that
Doing a bonza job mate .
Have you thought about making and selling the guage holders?
Yes I have thought about it, I might put them online by the end of the week for people to purchase if they like.
@@BarnesysBuilds I think you would do well there mate . I'm restoring the family hj and I'm debating to find good original guages or do what you have .
Hey mate one part that you could do is the front blinker parker light housing's for the wb, i managed to find a new old stock pair but i reckon they'd sell like hot cakes. How much would you have to pay for a 3d printer like that? Good stuff mate 🍻
Same with rear tail light housings, i've been asked a few times about those so wil give them a go next i think.
Hi mate I’d be interested in seeing the cost of the guages you got and helping support you by buying the backing plates. Are the facia steel supports the same from kingswood to gts or do I have to source a gts support to do this?
Hey mate, yeah thanks, appreciate that, looking to get them up online next week with pricing and let you know the link. The cast facia support frame are identical over hz and WB regardless of variant so good to role with what you have.
Hey mate, you can now get the gauge adaptor set online at www.unicq.com.au and the gauges themselves on ebay at ebay.us/zMa6Lj if you so wish. thanks!
Any of this work in stl files and would it for in wb 84 dash?
You can find out all the info at Unicq.com.au
What app do you use on the phone for scanning?
Lidar on iphone
@@BarnesysBuilds sweet, thanks for that.
Bro you need to scan that gts subframe and get that metal 3d printed 🤣
I actually did scan it, you could get it printed in metal, cost a bomb though!
@BarnesysBuilds prob cheaper then Tracking 1 down.. i wonder how it would hold up 100% filled??
@@mickvenning6297 it would be stronger than the original if done in metal and sintered. If it was done in ABS solid fill probably pretty bloody good I reckon
Maybe a good option for those that can't track down or refuse to pay a stupid price to be able to run a reproduction gts dash 🤔
I thought all the sub frames were the same. I got one off the foot path and it was the same as mine.
Any chance I can order some of these from you
Will have link later in week for purchase of a set of you want
Hi Barnesy, any chance I could order a set of these?
And can I grab the ebay link for the gauges as well? Regards
Yes you can, I will have a link up by end of the week with them online and also the gauges they are adapted for. I will post a video on it so people can find out where the link is. Thanks
@@BarnesysBuilds Thank You ! Regards Ian
@@IanAllen-mg1wz Hey Ian, you can buy the gauge adapters here now, i have them online. unicq.com.au/ i had to do some fine tuning but happy with them all now.
Here is the link to the exact set of Gauges the adaptors are made for on ebay ebay.us/zMa6Lj
@@BarnesysBuilds Thanks Aaron
Slow that printer down and you will get way better results
Been running these printers now for around 8 months and very happy with the quality at that speed. Could got to a 0.6mm nozzle to make them stronger perhaps. Cheers