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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:07 pm 
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The makeing of a Dashboard.

Ok so here it is. Ive spent some time on this. I dont want to admit how many hours its taken me to get this far, as much of its been trail and error followed by more error.

1st thing I did was make the flat dash board out of 3mm MDF. This was pretty simple I just used some thin cardboard and preseed it over the dash rails and traced the rails onto the cardboard. I then cut it a little bigger and trimmed to size..

I wanted the gauges to run in a line to run acrose the dash however I have a weber box and this takes up a lot of room behind the dash so I had to biuld a elevated box of the dash itself. This is good as I can get the gauges much squarer to look at rather then pointed at the passenger as the dash curves... Wich is where it got bloody hard.. Anyway A bit of hot glue got it looking pretty rough with a lot of gaps.. I then fiberglassed and screwed it all togther and then skimmed with bog. Needs some highfill now and shes all done. The panel that holds the gauged is removvable so I dont have to pull the whole dash out if I want to change the layout in future.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:40 pm 
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Fits real nice!

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yes thats basically how i amde mine used alot of bending and sticytape to get it right, then fibreglass. u amde it right tho, no rounded corners! mine is full of em was an absolute bastard!!

looks good though

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i admire your handy work and mind set to make your own!
what colour is going to be?

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Gloss BLACK!!! 8) Same colour as car would also look good but just think of gloss black with Cooper S style smiths gauges.....ahhhh beautiful...

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:02 pm 
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The removable bit will be black with a hint of green pearl and the board will be kinda army green... Imagine a pearly metalic army grean all highlighted with crome screws.... The whole car will stick to a theme... Imagine the car in my avatar but black on top with a dark pearly army green below and a chrome strip seperating the colours...

Mike

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