1960dave Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Where is the best place to get a new dash from? Mine is a narrow low-line car and it looks like someone has just cut some old wardrobe up and put it in. I am not after a fancy carbon dash just alloy or fibre glass as it will get covered one day Quote
Thrustyjust Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Get a piece of alloy off ebay or a local supplier and redesign to fit. You can get fibre glass blanks too from some places. 1 Quote
SootySport Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 The carbon fibre dashes do have an advantage, in that they are rigid, especially along the bottom edge where there is return lip. They don't need any extra brackets for support. Cutting and drilling as is easy as working with wood, a jig saw, drill, hole saws and abrasive sheets are all that is required, no special tools needed. No dash blanks are just a bolt on affair (carbon or other materials) they all need cutting to suit your particular top of the dash profile. Cost would be about £110 plus some nice Hex headed screws. You can use any other material but more work to fit it and cover it to your taste but in the end will probably cost as much as a ready finished carbon fibre blank. Good thing is by changing the dash, is you can do a complete re-design of the layout if it doesn't look good to you. Quote
1960dave Posted January 22, 2017 Author Posted January 22, 2017 I have seen a fibre glass dash for £70+vat that has the return just wondered if there was anything else around. There are a lot of downsides with carbon as soon as you cut it then it requires sealing with resin or super glue and always looks better clearcoated to protect it from uv. Quote
garytipping Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 Hi Dave, I cut mine from a sheet of aluminium I bought from wicks. I screwed it to the dash hoop and bent it round the cross tube. I've now covered it in vinyl. Quote
SootySport Posted January 22, 2017 Posted January 22, 2017 8 hours ago, 1960dave said: I have seen a fibre glass dash for £70+vat that has the return just wondered if there was anything else around. There are a lot of downsides with carbon as soon as you cut it then it requires sealing with resin or super glue and always looks better clearcoated to protect it from uv. All the ones I've seen for sale are already coated, not a problem. Quote
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