New carbon fibre dashboard fitted.

[marino]

Managed to get my new dash fitted. Went for full carbon rather than a veneer. Also, changed the switches and redesigned the lamp display, now LED's and aluminium.

My neighbour had to go in when I fitted it, as my language was a little colourful, worth the effort though.

Luca Brazzi has the photographs, hopefully he will post them tonight.

Steve, thanks in advance, Dave.

[luca brazzi]

Yup will do.....will post a link in here...tonight
LB

[luca brazzi]

Here they are....stunning!




LB

[pies]

Looks the muts nuts

[TT Tim]

That is a great dash, love the LED strip of tell tales.

Please stop, otherwise I'm going to have to start spending money!

Tim

[planetdave]

I never 'got' the wood thang. It is cheap and easy to tool up/manufacture but this is so much better even if the weight saving is meaningless.

Lovely.

[alans]

Have to agree about the wood dash, I think it spoils the car. Trouble is I'm limited with what to do with mine as its a "last 100 griff".

[Graham]

which buttons are they? or did you have them made. they seem to come with surrounds is that correct ?

G

[marino]

Graham said:

which buttons are they? or did you have them made. they seem to come with surrounds is that correct ? G

Yes, they have aluminium bezels. David Beer of Modwise has them in his car, they are from Farnell. I found another source that provided aluminium buttons (standard are clear/coloured plastic) with windows. This meant I could put the LED's for the lights and central locking in the switches saving space on the metal panel and allowing me to get all the switches in a line. The complete switch with LED is over £20 net, £120+ for 6. For materials and design it cost over £500, although this gave me 3 dashboards in 2mm carbon and 3 anodised aluminium lamp displays.

PS Thanks Steve.

[christof]

Very, very nice. Top work!!!

Christof

[mrmaggit]

I agree with TT Tim, that strip for the warning lights is ace. I asked Leven at TMS if they could do a surround for the row of lights, as I think that it looks like a piece of insulating tape on the dash. Anybody else think the same?

maggit

[chinny]

lovely dash very nice. Do they do them for Chims..??

[oggs]

chinny said:

lovely dash very nice. Do they do them for Chims..??

I ordered the carbon sheet myself and got a friend to cut/glue install it. A pic is on my site.

[Ballistic Banana]

Yep that looks great, Done mine last summer but kept the original light display.
Would be interested in that one if you can get some.
Buttons look good too.

BB

[jigs]

Looks very professional. Are you going to do the heater panel as well?

[david beer]

Dave
dash looks great, i thought you were going to do the dials illumination with LEDs? I suppose the lower wood has to go as well now though!

[RAW-SEWedge]

Looks great and your speedo and rev counter aren't arse about face ;D

[marino]

BB, I refer you to my earlier post. I can get a standard size lamp display made, but the cost will high for a one off, if others are interested I will get prices. I was trying to design a display to work with the normal buttons but the securing bar fouls the back of the LED's/resistors. The other problem is that none of the LED manufacturers make a blue cylindrical 5mm flat top LED for main beam. The alternative is to swap the yellow domed LED in-between the speedo and rev counter with the main beam one.

I am designing the heater panel at the moment. I wanted to use a different type of window switch so that I could machine the knobs/sliders, given up on that.

David, I wasn't going to use LED's for the dial illumination as I think they are to bright, apart from the speedo. Instead I bypassed the illumination switch for the speedo, now when it is pressed all the dials go off bar the speedo.

Dave.