Fabrication Advise Wanted
Fabrication Advise Wanted
02-26-2004, 06:05 PM
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John,
I've always thought that a really classy look would have been a plain black leather (or suede) panel holding some understated gauges (like the plain VDO gauges).
Their gauges look like they belong in a German car. Check out the website above, they have some different manufacturers items and stuff to compare.
Good luck with your project !
Rob
John,
I've always thought that a really classy look would have been a plain black leather (or suede) panel holding some understated gauges (like the plain VDO gauges).
Their gauges look like they belong in a German car. Check out the website above, they have some different manufacturers items and stuff to compare.
Good luck with your project !
Rob
02-26-2004, 08:07 PM
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Keep with a fairly solid and simple design.
Keep the side panels the same, and just build a new center section.
You can use aluminum, so it will be stronger than plastic, and use tabs or brackets
to attach it to the side panels. Then you can draw out the location of the holes for
the stereo, AC, guages, etc, with a pen, pencil, or sharpie. Then cut out the holes
with a hole saw. If you want, at that point, you can make a template, so that other
people can take it to a shop, and have a duplicate panel made. Then you can
choose what kind of covering you want. You could pad it slightly, and cover it
in leather. Or you could cut a thin layer of plastic with the same template.
Or use the template to make one out of carbon-fiber...
Ideally, if you want something less simple, and more ergonomic and rounded,
you could take that metal template, and build up the areas around the guages
with modelling clay, and make something with recessed openings, and with
some rounded curves here and there, and then make a cast of it, and then
use the cast to make parts out of fiberglass, or carbon fiber, etc...
But just a plain and simple aluminum panel will be the easiest.
And if you cover it nicely, it will look stock.
When I mention rounded guage mounting holes, I was thinking of the dashboard on the old Z cars...
Keep the side panels the same, and just build a new center section.
You can use aluminum, so it will be stronger than plastic, and use tabs or brackets
to attach it to the side panels. Then you can draw out the location of the holes for
the stereo, AC, guages, etc, with a pen, pencil, or sharpie. Then cut out the holes
with a hole saw. If you want, at that point, you can make a template, so that other
people can take it to a shop, and have a duplicate panel made. Then you can
choose what kind of covering you want. You could pad it slightly, and cover it
in leather. Or you could cut a thin layer of plastic with the same template.
Or use the template to make one out of carbon-fiber...
Ideally, if you want something less simple, and more ergonomic and rounded,
you could take that metal template, and build up the areas around the guages
with modelling clay, and make something with recessed openings, and with
some rounded curves here and there, and then make a cast of it, and then
use the cast to make parts out of fiberglass, or carbon fiber, etc...
But just a plain and simple aluminum panel will be the easiest.
And if you cover it nicely, it will look stock.
When I mention rounded guage mounting holes, I was thinking of the dashboard on the old Z cars...
02-27-2004, 09:37 PM
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I was thinking about this same thing. Making a template of the center console with cutouts where I want the gauges and having Jager customize one of his wood trim packages to fit them.