Center Vent

[CaptainJp]

Has anyone put a center vent in the dash?

I'm thinking about moving the turbo gauge and running one of the fresh air feeds from the windscreen to it.

What do we think is there room behind the dash for this?

[StreetDragster]

Its my modification for this winter.

I put up a thread about it somewhere where someone posted some useful pictures IIRC

Thanks

Matt

[Blu3R]

Behind the dash - plenty of room. On the dash panel - looking forward to seeing your ideas.

[Green3R]

Hi JP
I've modified my dash so that the facia (with the boost gauge and warning lights) comes off without any tools. It's off at the moment so if you need pics of what's behind dash let me know.
Or, we can meet up at some point so you can have a look.

running the pipework will be simple and there's plenty of room.

Nb: Getting the original facia off is a PIG of a job. It's made a little easier if you don't need to put the original back on...

[StreetDragster]

How did you modify your facia to do that? Sounds like a great mod!

Can you post some pictures of whats behind it when removed please ?

Matt

[SwankBaton]

Chris (Urbs / R0162) bored out the holes and fitted raw plugs for a push fit.
(He also fitted an access panel down in the footwell) - None many of his pics are hosted anymore, shame as his build thread covered a lot of mods

[Green3R]

you'll notice here that I cut out more of the dash behind for my purposes.

Ok, first thing I did was remount the heater controls to the dash rather than the insert. Makes life a lot easier! I bent up some alu brackets and glassfibred them in.

While I had the controls out, I milled a slot in line with the original dash sloted fixings. It'll make sense in the next post.

[Green3R]

then made up some bobbins that screw to original bosses on the dash insert.
These bobbins go up into the slots in the dash.

[Green3R]

So that the insert can then just engage and slide up.

The lower edge will have a couple of plastic push in clips bonded to the back side, something like they use to hold door cards on many cars.

All I need do now is undo the boost gauge hose and unplug the warning lights.

[andygtt]

I like the way you pre mounted the heater controls.

[Adrian W]

pre mounting the heater controls is a great idea

[CaptainJp]

Thanks for the feed back I'll wait until my SPA gauge turns up and I'll have a play.