Hey guys,
Well as far as the hesitation goes, I may have prematurely spoken. The damn thing came back!! I got rather annoyed but then I figured it out. I didn't set the timing right
When I checked the timing today I was about 10 degrees retarded (might be the cause
). After I set that the car runs like a champ.
As for the gauges, it wasn't easy. I had an extra set of EL gauges laying around so I decided to experiment. You can take out the overlay (part of part 7 in this pic)
Then I just used a very sharp knife and about 5 hours and carefully scratched away the paint on both sides of the overlay. Then I went out and got some blue film and put it behind the clear part and it was finished. For those who are doing the blue gauge conversion and don't like the green tint the stock color leaves you can just scratch off the green on the back of the overlay.
I have a spare overlay (the stock Si one I replaced), I might do a write-up on how to do this.
Thanks for the comments,