Dash Gauges

September 19, 2014 -

  I finished gluing up the back of the dash and put the gauges and indicator lights in today.  I also put in a turn signal switch all the way to the left.

Dash Work

September 10, 2014 -

  This is going slow in part because I've been traveling a lot and because you need to wait between each gluing.  Here is the back with the glove box on.

  Here is the front of the dash.  I think it looks pretty good with the glove box installed.  You can also see two of the larger gauge holes done for the speedometer and tachometer.

Dash & Footbox

September 1, 2014 -

  I've been working on the dash for over a week now.  Drilling the right size holes for different switches, ignition, lights, etc, then gluing the dash padding on, trimming that, then gluing the covering on, trimming, etc.
  Here's the dash padding on.

  Then, a few days later, here is the dash surface being glued on over the white padding.

  You can see how it needs to be cut so that it can fold over the edge and make it around the curves of the dash.  You can also see some books weighing down another side which is drying.  If you look towards the far edge, that is the bottom of the dash and has a 90 degree edge to it.  That was not easy getting the padding and covering to glue to a short surface that actually turns more than 90 degrees back so it was hard to put weights on it to hold it while it dried.  Thanks for the extra hand Michele, in getting that glued down evenly.

  While that was drying I went out to the garage and finished up trimming a spare piece of aluminum for the driver's footbox expansion I did earlier.  This piece has 4 separate 90 degree edge bends up which are in the engine bay side of the footbox.  (Those edges bent up are needed to rivet the existing footbox wall to.)

  If you look closely at the top of the photo you can see the bottom edge of the expansion from above.  This gives the right leg a lot of room and only starts to feel narrow if your foot is pressing *all* the way down on the accelerator. I don't think I should be doing that anyways. ;-)