I used to have one, and no longer have it, and no i dont miss it. I liked it in my rice days, but now im all about it being clean. Put them in your dash, do it right and have it look good. If you only need q or 2, do it on top of yoru steering collumnear the cluster, looks better.
Im definitely not a ricer and to me it does not seem rice at all (no offence), but I can't put 4 guages mounted in pods on my steering column. I was planning on putting the boost, oil and water guages in the pillar pod and having my wideband on my steering column. I would put them somewhere on the dash and try to mold them into the dash, but Ive never done any type of work like that and dont want to ruin a perfectly good dashboard.
i dont think its rice really but on the pillar they draw alot of attention from like cops, people wanting to steal things, and other ricers riding around, which the last 2 are the worst cause I hate being at a stop light and some idiot next to me is revving the crap out of his engine cause they can see the gauges on the pillar..and im just trying to drive to work..........