Fishbote, welcome to the board. My friend also just installed the white bezeled faria's and they are nice instruments. He got a lot better deal by buying a set on the internet than he could at the marine stores. I used the teleflex black bezeled gauges on mine again. Still has the original teleflex going strong on her. (You would think they might change the look of them a little bit over the past 25 years but they have'nt. Good luck, I dont thing you can go wrong with either set.
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I am using bluesea switch panels on mine. The 8 switch is horizontal and the 6 and 3 versions are verticle. I dont believe you can get either in the other direction though. Bluesea makes a lot of other componants that go along with the switches and that is the main reason I went/am going with them.