Gauge pod meets heat gun-2004 Mazdaspeed

[tweak89]

Not sure where to put this, but I recently picked up a 2004 MX-5 Mazdaspeed in great shape with no major mods other than wheels and a pillar mounted boost gauge.

The boost gauge pod was a generic on and had too many gaps for my taste. For some reason this gen seems to be forgotten as far as finding A-Pillar replacements with the pods built in. So I went out and picked up a generic Bosch branded gauge pod from Advanced Auto Parts and got out the heat gun to see if I could mold it to the pillar a little better.

Here's the original:


Here's my first pass at the replacement, I was able to mold the left side rather snugly to the tight radius of the A-Pillar:


Not quite as snug as I want it to be, but once my replacement A-Pillar gets here I'll have the old one off and be able to use it better mold the pod to it. The current A-Pillar was poorly modified to feed the vacuum tube and wired through it and, although I can't see it with the pod in place, I know it's there! Can you say OCD!

[GEE1989]

That's why I went with vent pod. Very clean looking

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[tweak89]

Originally Posted by GEE1989 That's why I went with vent pod. Very clean looking Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk

Funny thing is, according to the previous owner he had It mounted in one of the vents but ended up moving it to the pillar because he didn't like losing one of his vents. We are in Texas after all, and it does tend to get too hot to have the top down from time to time.

Wish I could do the radio mounts, but I don't want to downgrade to a lesser factory or go aftermarket (single DIN aftermarkets don't appeal to me).

[MS3Shadow]

Why did you post this in the miata section?

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[InkedInspector]

Originally Posted by MS3Shadow Why did you post this in the miata section? sent from my Nexus 6P

He said it's a 2004, I am assuming it's a MSM.

[MS3Shadow]

Originally Posted by InkedInspector He said it's a 2004, I am assuming it's a MSM.

Oh, I thought he meant a 3. Must have overlooked that part.

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[InkedInspector]

The vent pod he was talking about was one that utilizes the defrost vent and maintains normal functionality. Like so.