Thread: Aluminum Dashes, custom or prefab??

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Hey guys, sorry ahead of time, you're going to be getting LOTS of threads from me over the next few weeks as I try to figure things out on the new car.

The dash is all split on this one, rather than go to a new dash pad, we're thinking about replacing the whole dash. I've seen aluminum dashes in racers before, are they all custom or is there a place that makes them for different models of car?

Thanks!

Red I believe Dave S. has done a few here as well as ones I forget who did. Are you guys going to rip out the whole dash and make a panel, or just do a cutout in the existing setup.
Here is a nice blurp that may help
http://www.chevyhiperformance.com/te.../photo_02.html

Here are some replacements too
http://www.dashtops.com/dashboard/autodash.cfm/162

I dont know what you are working on but from building several race cars most alum dashs are custom made, but the last two I build we installed custom fiber glass dashs. Jerry Bickel has some dashs and some fiberglass company out of Fl. I cant remember there name.

i made my own VFN glass made then as well hard to say if they still around ?

Red - check this site. They have some great products.

http://www.classicdash.com

I like to do my own....Never have been happy with the pre fab ones cuz I like certain gauges and switches in certain places.... Aluminum is easy to work with, gauge holes can be made with the appropriate sized hole saw.

Rick (my uncle) was thinking we could take the dash that is in there out and take it to a shop and they could just use it as a pattern to bend us one out of aluminum, then we can put he dashes how we want?? He knows a guy at a metal shop, save us some money. we don't have a big enough bender to fab it up ourselves.