Been a frustrating few months trying to finish off bits on the Indy. Missed the summer so now its dark evenings in the garage again and its p1ssing it down of course.

Anyway, managed to finish my dash off. Some pics below. Is it perfect.....nope :-) but its as good as I can do at present. Decided to put the Koso behind the wheel as couldn't face having the rev counter out in the centre of the dash so there were one or two compromises. Overall am pretty happy with it. Comments welcome as usual. ;-) The rest of the car isn't quite finished yet so plenty to do and yes the garage is untidy !!


Dashboard Finished1


Dashboard Finished2


Dashboard Finished3


Dashboard 4
While I was at it I made an aluminium airbox as well as the Pipercross I had was knackered and bloody loud. No welding involved just rivet and araldite and a lot of silicon sealant plus copious hammering and bending. Bit of cursing as well of course!


Airbox

Rich

I know you say that you garage is untidy but how do you EVER find anything??????

Hence why I missed the sunshine :-)

coming along nicely, love the dashboard

think the dash looks great.what are the gauges that you are using in the centre of the dash

Dash is MK's own carbon dash. The clocks are Swoosh Smoky gauges. There are loads of different types and colours. They light up when powered on and are dark when off. Do a search on eBay there are loads of suppliers. I didn't use these...just as an example.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Swoosh-60mm-Vacuum-gauge-smoked-face-defi-/350274595345?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item518dfe2a11

Rich

One thing I did mean to ask.

My dash was incredibly flexible so when bolted up pressing a button particularly the hazard button on the angled bottom part made the whole thing bend inwards and it was almost impossible to get the button to latch.

I ended up making two stays from the bottom section back to the sides of the tunnel under the dash to support it.

Is this the norm or did I get a particularly thin dash?

Rich

i've got a carbon dash from SHP for my car, and its also very bendy

Flexible means light! You could stick a batten of some sort on the back to help with the stiffness.

Your airbox and the silicon is a bad idea if you have a lamda sensor on your car. The silicon blocks the sensor, and will kill it after not too long (remember the contaminated fuel issue a couple of years back). Otherwise looks good. I have a very similar setup - Koso, behind the wheel on a carbon dash. Good choice sir!


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[Edited on 23/9/10 by twybrow]

No lambda as it a carb'd zx9 and the silicon is on the outside or sandwiched between joints so unlikely to enter the fuel system but I understand the concern.

Dash is certainly light!

Cheers for the comments.

Rich