shiners780

I took advantage of the highly-abnormal 50 degree January weather, and pulled the car outside to let it run a bit.

My latest project was to lighten the dash, keeping only what was necessary. I wish I had a non-airbag dash, so it could have extended all the way to the passenger side, I think it woulda looked better, but it is what it is. I was going to make an aluminum dash, similar to OZ951's awesome looking dash, but I needed to retain the stock gauge cluster since I have no idea how to make an aftermarket speedometer and tach work. Anyway, it's a bit ghetto, but completely functional.

The switches in the center are 1. for the fan blower that I installed to provide cool outside air to the cockpit when needed, 2. is for the radiator cooling fans, high speed, and 3. is just a spare for future use. Also installed the Auto Meter boost/vac gauge.

I also repainted the front floor areas with black spray-on truck bed liner. The white paint looked like crap after just one season. Plus, I rebuilt the turbo, did the AC delete with alternator relocation, new plugs, sent the injectors out for cleaning, new coolant expansion tank, painted the intake manifold, misc. brackets, and heat shields, and cleaned the engine bay. And it's only January!

MPD47

I want to come over and see what you did for a blower. I'm going to get around to fully gutting the dash at some point, maybe not this season but at some point.

caster951

That is looking pretty sweet Jim! Very innovative.

OZ951

Beautiful Jim, nice work on the clean up job. I dont know what you were going on about in your previous post, your dash is very tidy.

shiners780

Anytime, just give me a shout.

I took a marine bilge blower (170 cu/ft per minute!), hard wired it in with an in-line fuse. Covered the factory blower hole with lexan I had laying around, covered with some funky diamond-plate self-adhesive vinyl I had laying around. Used 2 X 3" air intake adapters from Auto Zone to attach 3" brake duct hose to the lexan cover. Stuck some screen on the intake end to keep debris out. I used weatherstripping on the bottom edge of the lexan, and between the intake adapters/lexan to make it weather tight. It blows probably 4 or 5 times the amount of air the stock heater/AC blower did (while only drawing 4 amps), and directs air at my chest and up under the front of my helmet.

shiners780

Thanks!
Well, it ain't as tidy as yours, that's for sure! My initial thoughts were to do something similar to your dash. However, reality slapped me upside the head, so I worked with what I had. But thanks for the compliment!

sharky47

Hopefully it was cracked...........doing that to a non-cracked dash would make baby jeebus cry........

shiners780

I assure you no sacred tears were shed in the making of this dash.

In fact, there was a nice big canyon crack right there where I hacked it off.

porshhhh951

lol

nice looking track car you got there. I don't know where you're idea of not tidy comes from. Looks nice to me

jgporsche

I think it looks awesome.

Your "track car" looks a little too clean

Keithr726

Very cool and of course functional.

sharky47

Nice - your car is VERY clean - that is exactly the look I am going for with my NA track car.......

reno808

I think you gotta do more events. A little too clean

JonH

Wow, great looking work! Do you get a white reflection in the right side in your line of sight?

Darwantae951

I like the rear view mirror

-Darwin