Just wondering if anyone has some measurments I can go by.

Im making my own dash and i have bought all the materials, just need to mark out the shape and get cutting. (all dash paddings have been removed so im not sure where to measure )

so can anyone help me out?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

where abouts in melb are you? I think minitopia in fawkner might have a template there you could copy... otherwise, do a search on the ner... I found a good one a while ago.

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Size DOES Matter!!!

Check the mini mania website. I think they had some dash template's on there. I think I found it once by searching ausmini.

Keep in mind that all mini's are built differently - so leave a bit of extra meat around the edges incase it doesn't quite fit.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Search is your friend

http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22390&highlight=dash+template



Obviously the other side is a mirror reversal of this side.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Cheers mate.

trixitrine Im not far from Minitopia.. I saw your car while you were airbrushing it haha

Um, there used to be one on http://www.minifinity.com but they've gone and changed the site to a blog style with a new forum and I can't find the templates/measurements anymore (used to be in Tech Help Library I think)

Edit: Dagnamit - took me 5 minutes to search through minifinity and then post this reply and in the meantime the template was already posted!! - That was the one that I used, even though i only made mine a half-dash cos i didn't want to dismantle the cluster.

Hi clubby 757, I have the measurements for my dash if you like



PM Me if you would like them.

James

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you clubbies are lucky witht he top Pad

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When I made my dash, I compared a couple of templates that I found (the one above was one of them, and it's the crap one if i remember correctly) and they can differ by quite a bit.
Anyway, I used the bigger one of what I found as a starter, and trimmed it from there.
I used 8mm MDF, but next time I'd use 10.

I pull MDF out of mine, if your mini leaks like mine does the MDF can swell up and all that hard work can be ruined

Just another thing to consider

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"When you're in it up to your ears....it pays to keep your mouth shut!"

Years ago when I made one for the 850, I used 1/4" marine ply.
Much better than that `MDF" pre-digested woodpulp... bends better too.

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MDF compressed sawdust and snott

MDF the asbestos of the next generation.

So fibreglass is better for the lungs?

Along with fibreglass.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.