Boost gauge display with nixie tubes

[MopTheEngineer]

Dear boosters,

I am an electrical engineer making things in my free time. I am into old-school displays and vacuum tubes, so most of my projects contain nixie tubes or other vacuum fluorescent displays. Recently I was in a car that had a boost pressure gauge, and I immediately thought: I could make this with nixies!

The question is, would people that are into turbo and other mods would be interested in such a thing? The idea would be to use a standard 52mm circular housing (or 60mm) and use 2 nixie tubes for display. For reference, this is something I made recently for another project of mine:


If I find people that are interested in putting something like this in their car as a boost gauge, I could make a few 100 on kickstarter. But first I need to know if automotive people are as hyped about nixies as I am

[Sticky]

The question is, would people that are into turbo and other mods would be interested in such a thing? The idea would be to use a standard 52mm circular housing (or 60mm) and use 2 nixie tubes for display. For reference, this is something I made recently for another project of mine:

This would be more for the hot rod/rat rod crowd and I could definitely see it catching on there as something different.

With modern cars? Not so much as that takes up to much room. I need a just quick/simple and lightweight gauge.

Very cool to have another electric engineer here

[subaru335i]

This is awesome. I love it.

There is a youtube channel with a guy in Europe making his own large nixie tubes and makes big cool clocks. It is awesome and really cool to watch him make them.