A while back..

[GTX.JCW]

I was conferring with Budnicks about his new instrument panel and it's installation. Well, I have moved forward on this and it is almost complete; along with a bunch of stuff that I have managed to put off for one reason or another. Mostly procrastination!!

Here are a couple of picts of the new panel. The picts are a bit fuzzy as I forgot my regular camera and used my cell phone for these. One of the issues Bud had talked about was the lack of room for the new speedo & tach. That was solved by removing the small lip of upholstery that surrounds the switch panel. No pics of that as it has not come back from the upholstery shop as yet. This provided enough room for the new panel. We went a bit further with the panel. We designed a 1 piece panel that goes all the way across the dash. It is 1/8 aluminum and will be painted black. I have an extra GTX badge that would go on the trunk panel that will go on the dash on the right side where the red GTX is on the fake wood piece.

Along with the dash, we replaced the pitted chrome pieces and all the window bits, installed the new engine and dash harnesses, and installed an American Powertrain hydraulic clutch system.

My left knee has been taking a beating with the new 3 finger borg & beck unit I put in when I did the trans swap.






Should have it done late in the week..

Jeff

 

[HYRDGOON]

Looks good!

 

[GTX.JCW]

Finished at last.

Well, it's done. And it looks and works great!

Overall shot of the instruments



Right side of the dash with the new GTX emblem



After removing the lip from the dash pad it only covers just the bottom of the speedo & tach




The whole dash was removed, stripped, a little body and fender work to smooth out some of the surfaces, a complete repaint and an all new dash harness. We had a bunch of grounding issues on reinstall. Most involving the interior lighting ( dome & map ). Solved those and found a bad door light switch in the process.

I guess that's it for now. But, who knows!


Jeff