I have been working on a custom SS dash for the last three weekends - not counting the time I spent on eBay and the Summit site gathering up the stuff needed to do this project.
This is MUCH harder than I ever thought it would be and more expensive.
This is coming from someone that built a 402 and swapped it in for a 350, redid the interior, & installed front end busings, ball joints and disc brakes !
It is not heavy lifting work - it is a lot of figuring out how to fabricate brackets from whatever you have in your junk drawer, bending twisting and installing then taking it all apart again to make sure it is going to be reliable. The tough part is that you are forcing the gauges FORWARD against the carrier instead of PULLING the gauges through a hole.
The nice part is that in the end I will have a dash that really is custom because no one in their right mind would do this.
Here are a couple of pix of the project as it stands so far. I have a lot more work to do to get everything ready to paint and then make the actual dash swap but this is encouraging to me after this much to see something LOOK like the finished product.
By the way - A special thanks to SS520 for the idea (mine IS different) and some photos to help me figure out how to go about this.
Tom
This is MUCH harder than I ever thought it would be and more expensive.
It is not heavy lifting work - it is a lot of figuring out how to fabricate brackets from whatever you have in your junk drawer, bending twisting and installing then taking it all apart again to make sure it is going to be reliable. The tough part is that you are forcing the gauges FORWARD against the carrier instead of PULLING the gauges through a hole.
The nice part is that in the end I will have a dash that really is custom because no one in their right mind would do this.

Here are a couple of pix of the project as it stands so far. I have a lot more work to do to get everything ready to paint and then make the actual dash swap but this is encouraging to me after this much to see something LOOK like the finished product.
By the way - A special thanks to SS520 for the idea (mine IS different) and some photos to help me figure out how to go about this.

Tom