just started to design my dash last week and was wondering what other people have done to theres s i have ran out of ideas so need somee insperation

Don't know if this is waht you are looking for but this is what I did

Cheers

Mark
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i just trying to find anything but the dial lay out is cool will see how mine lookes like dat

Mark, did you get through SVA with that dash? Just thinking about the bottom edge radius.

You'll see another in my archive - latest dash

cheeers
Colin

what i could see was nice but its prity dark

Here's what we did, we drew the layout on autocad as a template to get all the dials in line.
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oh...ok......

I'll take another...

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I'll take another...

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it's done....2 more there now....not as clear as they could be, but not dark...

colibriman,
how have you mounted the bright six? this is this exactly where i plan to mount mine.

Is it behind or throught he dash? is there a slot or seperate holes for the lights?

cheers,

Ned.

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it's done....2 more there now....not as clear as they could be, but not dark...

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all the dials and the bright 6 are mounted on aluminium fixed to the back of the dash with cutouts for them.
Its a slot for the Bright 6. there's also carbon leather on top of the bright 6 with a slot in the leather...with rubber trim around the leather edges.

cheers
Colin

took a lot of time and I'm still not entirely happy with it....

I put boot trim edging on bottom of dash for SVA, it kinda fell off afterwards er within about 10 minutes

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I put boot trim edging on bottom of dash for SVA, it kinda fell off afterwards er within about 10 minutes

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errrr.... yes that's what is was

What is a bright 6 BTW?

Cheers

Mark

Bright 6 - its the warning lights - they are a set of 6 led's ....with an overlay of symbols...

i think its a stipe of lights with 6 of them indicators battery and some others m dads buying on for our car

you win that race lol

are you people all slacking off work???

just saw one of your pics and it brought back pimp my ride when people fix there cars with duck tape

wat's work? haha.....

basically yes...

lol unlucky school hols for me but dads at work so i don't get to work on car

duck tape is essential stuff....

mascing tape more fun cause you can draw on it while thinking of ideas. so its both practical and helps pass time

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I made some fake dials out of paper using a drawing package. These were then stuck on a hardboard dash using some art shop low-stick glue (similar to the old "Cow Gum" ). These could be pulled off, stuck on elsewhere, and generally moved around until I was happy.
The advantage was that at the end I knew that I could see all the dials when my hands were on the wheel, could reach all the controls, etc.
You don't need a drawing package of course - just cut out a few circles of paper or thin card and use those.

David

lol i am doing that right now

I "photocopied" my dials on my PC scanner, then printed them out so I will have exactly what they should look like once I get round to doing the dash

Warning lights, oil pressure gauge and temp gauge right in front of me. The rest arranged in centre of dash.

I cut circles out of card the same size as the gauges and used blu tac to try different positions on the dash until I found something I liked.

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very nice i think i have mine done now i'll try and take a picture

Im really confused wit my dash, cause i've got R1 clocks that stick out quite a lot, how will i be able to make it SVA friendly??

This is how I did mine. Oh, the Sierra wheel seems to have fallen off, didn't realise!
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