Blitzen Design Lab
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Retrofitting a Custom Retrowave Dash in my Z31
In this video, I go over some of the common questions I get asked about my custom digital dash I made for my 300ZX, and show some of how I built it. I may make a follow-up to this video, if there is enough interest!
At the time of publication, I am not offering these for sale.
I am working on determining an outlet in which I may publish some of the information I have, relating to this project. I will update this description once this is available.
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Z31 Electronic Steering Retrofit [Part 2]
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.4 года назад
Part two of a two-part series where I'll describe how I fitted an electric power steering assist motor to the steering column of my 1986 Nissan 300zx. I used the assembly out of a Nissan Versa, but some Kia Souls, as well as Nissan Sentra's and Prius' should have similar units. The Kia one appears to use a smaller motor. In the previous video, I went over the assembly of the main column. In thi...
Z31 Electronic Steering Retrofit [Part 1]
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.4 года назад
Part one of a two-part series where I'll describe how I fitted an electric power steering assist motor to the steering column of my 1986 Nissan 300zx. I used the assembly out of a Nissan Versa, but some Kia Souls, as well as Nissan Sentra's and Prius' should have similar units. The Kia one appears to use a smaller motor. In this video I'll go over the assembly of the main column, and in the nex...
Z31 Lock Cylinder Refreshing
Просмотров 6984 года назад
I like to make things complicated, and since new lock cylinders aren't available for the Z31 chassis, I found the closest match and made it work. Turns out, the ignition lock cylinder for an 84-86 Maxima or S12 chassis 200SX is quite similar to the z31 one, and with a few modifications, can work pretty well. NOTE: the pivot for the pin on the key-in-lock chime/steering lock lever needs to be sl...
Tachometer Testing [1986 300ZX, Lincoln Digital Cluster]
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.4 года назад
Doing a bit of testing with the Lincoln digital cluster and the 300ZX. RPM reading appears to be accurate, averaging the samples and only updating the RPMs displayed when they change seems to have sorted the jitter I was experiencing before. Happy to see it reading well off the actual ignition signal. As always, I hope you all enjoy, even if it is quite short. Feel free to subscribe, I'll be tr...
More Ford/Lincoln cluster tests
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.4 года назад
Trying out a setup I configured using a Ford mirror adjustment switch, to control both sides of the display. This will allow me to have one knob in a center console instead of needing to fit buttons to a steering wheel and having to deal with clock springs. The switch information is sent over CAN to the cluster, as well as the data to turn the cluster on. These are sent from two separate microc...
Kouki Z31 300ZX LED Tail Lights
Просмотров 7 тыс.5 лет назад
Bench testing a set of custom LED tail lights I've been working on for a Kouki Z31 300ZX. These lights feature: -2 brake lamp illumination modes (sweep and instant) -4 turn indicator modes; custom pattern on whole light, or on the amber portion alone, or a sweep on the brake light portion followed by a blink on the amber and a sweep off the brake, or turn off right after the amber fills in. -2 ...
Ford Instrument Cluster Testing
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.5 лет назад
Spent some time mucking with an instrument cluster out of a 2014 Ford Flex. Every function on this cluster is controlled over the CAN NETWORK, aside from fuel level, washer fluid level, and detecting the transmission is in park. Controls in this video are provided through an Arduino Uno and an ElecFreaks CANBUS shield. A combination of scanning the data stream from the vehicle and broadcasting ...

Комментарии

  • @ElliottKinsey
    @ElliottKinsey 21 час назад

    I wish I was smart enough to do this for my build :/ I got a weird car that requires custom EVERYTHING. (1988 Toyota Corolla All Trac)

  • @kedrickswain6509
    @kedrickswain6509 2 дня назад

    Well, this is perfect.

  • @TheReynMan77
    @TheReynMan77 2 дня назад

    Wow both technical and creative skills. Amazing work!

  • @KG98.
    @KG98. 2 дня назад

    I would HAPPILY pay over a grand for this

  • @nathanielmoore87
    @nathanielmoore87 2 дня назад

    Absolute genius. This is by far the most well polished best diy custom cluster I've ever seen!!

  • @MrDiamondFlyer
    @MrDiamondFlyer 3 дня назад

    I once had a friend that never took the files needed for EGA and VGA modes when copying games ... to save some space on the floppy since his video card would only support Hercules and CGA anyway ... I kind of hated him for that, but to see this dashboard with such colour palette brings great nostalgia vibes. Neat !!!

  • @7ELETRIC
    @7ELETRIC 8 дней назад

    If i paid you and got all the parts for you, would you be willing to do this for my 1985 celica?

  • @jayare7750
    @jayare7750 10 дней назад

    You don't know how much I needed to see this! I just recently bought a beater 1985 Toyota MR2 and I would love to add something like this!

  • @Juronumo
    @Juronumo 11 дней назад

    thats cool would have something like that

  • @ahunna8748
    @ahunna8748 15 дней назад

    Wow, what a awesome piece. I want one for my z

  • @Disavowedagent47
    @Disavowedagent47 18 дней назад

    CCCHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM........This is one of the coolest things i have seen and would love to do it to my 2016 ford fusion, I have several mods to it and I would love to pick your brain on some of the ideas I have and get you opinion.

  • @SaintMarrow
    @SaintMarrow 18 дней назад

    How did you learn how to do all this?

  • @ballpark_ace
    @ballpark_ace 19 дней назад

    intro was amazing

  • @corrvptedintl.2025
    @corrvptedintl.2025 19 дней назад

    Can you Retrofit a 04-08 Acura TSX [CL9]??? If so, let me Know

  • @frederickhumphrey1064
    @frederickhumphrey1064 20 дней назад

    I passed over this video a few times, thinking it was a plastic overlay on LEDs, but this was exactly what I was looking for.

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab 20 дней назад

      @@frederickhumphrey1064 thank you for giving it a chance!

  • @WaveGodNamiKami
    @WaveGodNamiKami 24 дня назад

    omg

  • @soonenough938
    @soonenough938 24 дня назад

    I don’t own one of these cars, but I’m a huge sucker for 80’s retro stuff, and I love to tinker. I watched this video all the way through and loved it. Well done man!

  • @brendenleon7123
    @brendenleon7123 25 дней назад

    where did you get the custom guage faces? I'm attempting to make a custom cluster for my hardbody. I love the vid!

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab 25 дней назад

      @@brendenleon7123 the screen printed portion of the face I drew up in Inkscape, and had a local printing vendor print it out on some acrylic! For the rest of the face, it was CNC milled with a custom circuit board installed in the back for the illumination.

  • @sjp770
    @sjp770 Месяц назад

    WOW! You are amazing, this is the single most impressive thing ive seen in years. If you ever drop a DIY build guide id be interested. Just need to change it to kph.

  • @tristar9998
    @tristar9998 Месяц назад

    Been thinking about a similar dash mod for my cyberpunk/vaporwave 95 nissan pathfinder. This only makes me want to attempt it more.

  • @scooter1261
    @scooter1261 Месяц назад

    Please make more videos. I just subbed and can’t wait to see more.

  • @Greens.Garage
    @Greens.Garage Месяц назад

    half way through the video and i already love where this is going!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Tenneyson
    @Tenneyson Месяц назад

    What is that device at 3:35 ? it looks super cool

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      @@Tenneyson it's a bit of homebrew kit I put together so I could collect canbus data without having to transport a laptop with me. The main ingredients are an old android phone, and a microcontroller acting as a canbus sniffer, sending the collected data over a USB serial port to the android phone

  • @DkBu-zy6ui
    @DkBu-zy6ui Месяц назад

    Omg I can't show this to my wife....she has an 88 turbo 2+2 z31 with a working digital dash. She would go nuts over this.....any possibility of a kit in the future....? Lol

  • @XsuburbanninjaX
    @XsuburbanninjaX Месяц назад

    This is so dope…any chance you think you could make that background move? Would definitely install in my own car.

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      @@XsuburbanninjaX this cluster has the background as a fixed element so I can't set it to move, but I would suspect that would become a bit too distracting anyhow

  • @bluejayfabrications2216
    @bluejayfabrications2216 Месяц назад

    People in the comments are oooowww and aarrrrring over the dash but just consider this He not only built this but he also has the ability to create a polished video about building the dash board

  • @Chonskins9144
    @Chonskins9144 Месяц назад

    Some wizard shit. 🤘💪🤘

  • @blumansimon6458
    @blumansimon6458 Месяц назад

    you absolute mad lad 🤘

  • @siedlisko-zla
    @siedlisko-zla Месяц назад

    I love it <3

  • @-look-at-this-84
    @-look-at-this-84 Месяц назад

    This is so cool

  • @msk3905
    @msk3905 Месяц назад

    This is without a doubt one of the coolest things I have seen You Tube recently and I absolutely love that dash, nice job!

  • @Rusefi
    @Rusefi Месяц назад

    Wow very cool! Is any source code available anywhere? Maybe the DBC?...

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      @@Rusefi when I have an opportunity to, I want to post up a follow up video as well as publish the CAN data I collected

  • @DJLAWOLF
    @DJLAWOLF Месяц назад

    And please get back to me

  • @DJLAWOLF
    @DJLAWOLF Месяц назад

    But don't get me wrong the graphic design looks cool but I'm just saying when you put that plastic cover on over the screen and I looked at a Ford fusion gauge cluster and there was a Lamborghini Aventador digital display or the Lamborghini huracan and they want so much money for them you could redesign if you wanted to but just hear me out again just look up qbasic and look up the video I just mentioned in the other comment I posted the reason why I've been watching videos like yours and everybody else's is security risk of people's cars finding ways to make it hard for hackers

  • @DJLAWOLF
    @DJLAWOLF Месяц назад

    The thing is is that someone already connected a Dodge cluster to the Arduino and it work like no disrespect I don't know how the hell you had so much problems on messing with a dashboard when someone took a Dodge gauge cluster a challenger gauge cluster like such as the hellcats or the 392 or the standard v6s of the new ones

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      @@DJLAWOLF there is no such thing as a plug and play solution, even with the Dodge clusters, canbus data decoding would have been necessary. Perhaps in their case it was already published unlike the Ford cluster when I started this project. Dodge clusters also do not work with the theme I was going for on this project, however you are welcome to use them in yours if you would like

  • @DJLAWOLF
    @DJLAWOLF Месяц назад

    I don't like that idea because hear me out why use a rectangular screen just separate the screen like part of rectangular screen that fits that size of the area and buy a circle rotated circle screens because you have a bunch of Gap right there on the display to be used

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      There are a few reasons for my approach: -in my opinion, a rectangular screen with hard corners and obvious edges does not present a very appealing appearance. With a round type dial the corners would still be unused anyway, so having a rectangle still present would detract from the visual flow. -the mask, while it does cover portions of the display, does not actually cover much. Edge to edge of the display is being used, but the mask is also applied so it is not obvious that a rectangular display is in use here. -using multiple round displays is a good idea in theory, but since you are then operating multiple displays, you have significantly more processing overhead required to drive them. The solutions using Raspberry PI's or similar SBCs are not polished or smooth enough for me to want to use them.

  • @namegoeshere2805
    @namegoeshere2805 Месяц назад

    Good stuff. Very impressed with your ingenuity and design skills.

  • @ltbomb7194
    @ltbomb7194 Месяц назад

    WOW. Is all I can say

  • @mitsostamvakis9093
    @mitsostamvakis9093 Месяц назад

    this is seriously so cool

  • @luc1f3r0_mf7
    @luc1f3r0_mf7 Месяц назад

    These are the channels I’m into now. It’s different in just the right way not doing the same crap as everyone else.

  • @CosimoGames
    @CosimoGames Месяц назад

    this is amazing! wish i knew how to do this kind of thing. great work. maybe get the plastic shield polished though. it will really showcase how amazing this is.

    • @BlitzenDesignLab
      @BlitzenDesignLab Месяц назад

      @@CosimoGames the plan is to make a new shield, I just didn't get around to it when I had the time to do the filming here haha

  • @axelkusanagi4139
    @axelkusanagi4139 Месяц назад

    I want to design a Heads-up display dashboard like this for my ford van. I'm just gonna have to learn step-by-step the programming and electronics involved

  • @hakugin15
    @hakugin15 Месяц назад

    That is amazing

  • @notsoproguy6755
    @notsoproguy6755 Месяц назад

    Finally, a dashboard that is cool to look at

  • @TheSoup222222
    @TheSoup222222 Месяц назад

    sooo sweet...i almost bought a Z32 last week but my daily driver was totaled so my budget will be going towards a new daily driver car until i get the insurance 😪

  • @SnepperStepTV
    @SnepperStepTV Месяц назад

    yuck. someone who isn't an idiot would have understood retrofuture as futuristic design using retro technology instead of "new bullshit but there's purple and a segmented sun in there somewhere" poser hack, just get a 2024 nissan altima and get over yourself.

  • @diogorodrigues9205
    @diogorodrigues9205 Месяц назад

    please put it on the car!!

  • @daroachdoggjr188
    @daroachdoggjr188 Месяц назад

    That’s absolutely kickass

  • @joeyallen1609
    @joeyallen1609 Месяц назад

    yooooo that cyber deck tho... hope you have a video on that!

  • @Prop909
    @Prop909 Месяц назад

    Very impressive