This is a amazing build. Great skills, keep it up.

LOL - He asked how many people have shared this thread with other people or other Bulletin Boards - really guy's go back and read the request I'm not losing my mind here.

So I replied that I indeed have shared this thread with others.

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im sure it was a typo... where he said "without" i think it was supposed to say "with about"..

update Oct. 09( Plugging Away )
 

Well It's been a good long while since an up date has been posted so here we go. Chassis wiring has made much progress, the harness has been made and is ready to be put back into the car for good. While making this I had to remove and replace this many many times. If anyone tells you that wiring their car is easy just laugh at them. Yes it is not difficult but I does take time and patience. now I have about three weeks of evenings and weekends here, and it took all of that to sort out the harnesses from two separate vehicles. The engine and under the hood harness is from a 93 Mark VIII (same as the engine donor) the dash bits are from a 91 F-150 (same source as the steering column). I had diagrams for both that helped a ton, now all of the harnesses had been taken down to bare components and then reconfigured to suit what was needed. Needless to say there was plenty of soldering and shrink tube to go around, but nothing anyone with the patience of a saint couldn't do. Now I still have to wire up the dash and get a few little odds and ends taken care of but I'll just keep plugging along;
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Until Later,
Patrick

St Patrick!

LOL


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My A.D.D would kick in and the lighter would pop out the dash when I hit the brakes...
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Hey Guys',
Sorry I haven't been keeping everyone up to date on the build. We have the harness all back in the car and have the dash back out of storage and have been getting it ready to make the harness for it. But I'm still on the fence on how I'm going to finish the piece. What would you do, cover it with leather or finish it and paint it to match the car, sorry no carbon fiber way to tacky for my taste.http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...328_Small_.JPG
And does this layout order for the gauges look okay. This is where they will be but which goes where is still up in the air, opinions.
Later,
Patrick

leather would be classy..

i would cover it in material. I think painted would have too much of a custom car street rod look IMO.. its already a very custom dash, i think leather would make it have a nice factory looking touch..

Leather/ultra leather/vinyl... gets my vote.

Fiber is something your mother told you to eat!

My ONLY question would be the lowest gauge driver side - looks too "flat" - are you sure if you're sitting in the car that you can see the needle position...

I looks like maybe it could be "tilted" up a bit for easy "at a glance" reading..

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Leather! But I'd do some sort of insert on the flat upper part, it'll look to big and boring in just one color leather all over. Either a different color leather or a wooden insert of some sort?