Dash Update
 

Just got my dash back from Livorsi, rather then spending an arm & a leg, I opted to have my panel & gauges refurbished at 1/3 the cost. Turned out great, I decided to keep the panel white & use chrome & platinum as accent colors , I will post before & after pics

Looks like your props need to go to Bblades one motor is turning more rmp than the other. I see you really have your "foot" into it too. :party-smiley-004:



All kidding aside it looks great.

Looks great!

Whats the name and style of wheel? And does it just bolt to the 3/4" stud on helm?

looks awesome!

Your before looks just like mine. After looks great. Can we ask total cost?

http://www.livorsi.com/catalog/wheels.htm#hubs

momo ponza, you need to purchase a billet hub to slide on the standard 3/4 stud

Looks good man, I too am updating my dash, I am replacing the whole thing tho, have all the parts except for the throttle and controls (the most expensive piece). Cant wait to get it all installed!

Talked to Todd at Livorsi and he quoted me $20 more per gauge to go brand new. Not sure if it is worth it to referb my gauges.

x15 gauges - you can not tell them apart from a new gauge

New gauge is not going to have the warning light. If one of urs goes out you will be forced to get a new style and they will not match. Todd said they do not carry anymore old style gauges.

When you said it was a 1/3 of the cost I was shocked. That was not the case. Only $20 more for new gauge and I can sell my old ones for $20 each so I should pay the same that you did for all new gauges.

New gauges have a new style pig tail. Referb your exsiting.

If a gauge goes out, as long as livorsi is still operating, I should be able to have it repaired. When I said 1/3 the cost, I was referring to my original plan to buy a new panel, new throttles, gauges , switches ect.

Don't forget about Great Lake Skippers for dash parts. I've bought stuff from them before they have nice products.

http://greatlakesskipper.com/product...words=fountain

Yep, just bought there last purple dash for 47' Fountain.


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Great thread. My panel is out getting redone right now, along with throttles. Talked with livorsi about re-furbing my gauges (sames as yours), and never even thought about going with the silver dials and bezels at the refurbish price! some of my white gauges have lenses that cracked. Looks like i will be sending mine up there! If you dont mind me asking, how long did it take to get them back?

I was told 20 per gauge for the small ones, 38 bucks for the tachs, and about 80 or so for the liquid speedo..

Yours looks great. Nice update.

I sent my panel & gauges all intact & wired up, & got it back that way, It was a extra 100 but well worth it to me, they had my dash for 2 months, I would get your gauges there ASAP, just to be on the safe side

My dash looked identical to yours, same gauges, bezels, and white dash. I disassembled the dash, and sent it to premier powdercoating (team marine) and had it powdercoated in the candy red color, and my throttles also re-powdercoated. He does the engraving too. I was told livorsi used to send the panels to him before they got their own machine.

Plan to send my gauges to livorsi this week and have them re-furbished and change from white to platinum like you did. I really like the gauges with the warning lights, and like the fact they put the red pointers in too! :drink:

Not sure who you talked to but as of Friday Todd quoted me:
$35 for small or $50 new
$57 for tach or $200 new
$80 for speedo or $118 new
New gauges have built in LED lights.

Who is the guy at Livorsi that refurbish the panel? Todd told me they do not refurbish panels. He said they tried it one time and will never do it again.

Ill let you know how my dash comes out when i get it back. Ill be posting some pictures here.


You need a new hookup at livorsi :party-smiley-004:

Just let me know who u r dealing with and hook a brother up. Todd is sticking it to me.

Prices i got initially were for refurbishing my white gauges and staying white. Talked to them today, and to go to platinum, would be 10.00 extra per small gauge, 19.00 per big gauge (tachs, and speedo).

So, it would end up costing me 571.00 to refurbish all 15 1996 year gauges.

Was on egauges.com just now. for new autometers pro comp ultra light platinums, 809.00. For new autometer carbon fiber, 720.00. This is with a standard speedo, non gps. But my original setup had a liquid speedo anyhow. Plus i have a chartplotter that gives me GPS speeds anyhow.

Thinking now i may just go with the new autometers for the extra 150-200 bucks, and put my old gauges on ebay. Now to decide...carbon fiber or platinum! Platinum matches everything better, but the carbon fiber ones look all business...Tough call!

Go with the platinum, it looks good, unless you've got alot of other carbon fiber stuff in the boat to match the C/F.

Who is the guy at Livorsi that refurbish the panel? Todd told me they do not refurbish panels. He said they tried it one time and will never do it again.[/QUOTE]

Maybe they send it out to team marine? that could be why it took 2 months to get everything back. I had team marine do the panels on my last boat, & it is of the same quality. All I know is I sent in my complete gauge panel & Livorsi took care of it from there ;)