Finally finished my dash!!

[novaman_68]

I finally finished my dash (for now) and its on to other interior fixes

[colt zantop]

that looks killer! nice work!

[novaman_68]

Thanks, I am just glad to be finished with it. It was a lot of work but the end result is worth it to me.

[JamesD]

looks awsome, is the whole thing custom or did you start with a factory dash?

[novaman_68]

I pulled the stock instrument panel out and filled the void. It is a custom insert that directly bolts into the stock dash with no mods done to it.

[ViperBlue68]

Dash Looks Great!! what color is that?? any pix of the whole car??

[ProTouring442]

Very Nice! Ever notice that it seems to be the smaller projects that take all the time? I've spent nearly 6 hours making cornering lamps out of my aoiginal parking lights... I'm not sure why, but it seemed like something I should do.

I bet it took quite a few hours to make that great looking dash! Worth it though. Let's see some pics of the rest of the car!

[novaman_68]

It's a GM factory color from 02 called "electron blue metallic" used on the full size pu and the avalanche. That is the color I chose for the whole car. I have some pics, but remember it's a work in progress and the body is going to be finished last. I am going to try to put some more pics in VB garage later today.

[trapin]

Viperblue68...I just looked at your homepage and I am blown away by your interior. Did you do it yourself or did you hire the work out? Cost? Send me an e-mail as I don't want to highjack novaman's thread. Thanks.

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[smittys69]

I assume those are LED's for blinkers and high beam. Where did you purchase them at? Dash looks great.

[Ralph LoGrasso]

The dash looks awesome, Nice job!! Electron blue is a beautiful color, one of the nicest blue's ever to come out of GM, IMHO. There is almost nothing sweeter than a freshly waxed EB Z06.

[novaman_68]

Yes you are right the LED are for turn signals and high beam, I bought them at O'reillys, but I've seen them at several parts houses. They are only about $5 each

[C4Bird]

Not trying to change the direction of the thread, but check out digikey.com for LED's. You can get 10 of them for between $1.50-$5.00. They have nearly any voltage and color available. I bought the LED's for my custom dot matrix tail lights from them.
-Nate

[smittys69]

Where did you get the LED lense covers that have the chrome ring around them? Those finish it off nicely.

[nkopper]

Great lookin dash, Novaman!

Wish I had fab skills like that.

Nathan

[dhardison]

VERY NICE!!! Wanna fab one for me?!?!?

[gearjammer]

Looks great Novaman, I am working on a 72 and I need to do something like that to clear my roll cage A'Pillar bars. I had looked at the Detroit Speed inserts but for 600.00 I think I just might try to make my own.


Thanks for the visual idea, what else have you done to your chassis / suspension etc.

Keep up the good work

[novaman_68]

1. The LED's have that ring around them when you buy them

2. I kinda tried to guage interest in this dash about a month ago because I was thinking about building a few, but I did'nt get any response, so I did'nt think anyone was interested. PM me if you are serious and we can talk.

3. I built mine because I did'nt want to use a plastic insert and I wanted the 5" tach & speedo and the 2 5/8 oil,temp,fuel, & voltage.

I just started on this car back in August and I have already blasted and smoothed my subframe and rebuilt the front end with poly bushings and hotchkis springs. I'm going hotchkis all the way, but when $$ allows.

Thanks guys I really respect all the input from everyone on this site