Stack is back

Some weeks ago I sent my Stack odo/tachometer to ISA-Racing for repair. An uncommon fault... the needle was broken. Got it back today, repaired at the firm's expense! Happy!
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... and talking about vibrations, AGAIN!

Maybe one of the last indian summer days to drive my Seven was yesterday, but when I started the engine, the needle of my Stack rev counter just broke :-( One more on the list of winter projects.
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Dashboard in leather

Cut a piece of patent leather to approximate size.

Special glue ...

... applied to both sides.

Then I applied Sicaflex to the frame and mounted the dashboard.

Hammered the aluminium panel around the lower rail, then glued the leather to prevent it from getting lose when climbing in and out of the car.

 

Used a sharp cutter to get rid of the leather covering the holes, then mounted the dials and switches.

General view of the dashboard, centre console is next.

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Shiny

Next thing to do is cover the dashboard and centre console in patent leather, so everything out again and a little sanding to give a good surface to the glue.

The old school Lucas switch is a PLC5 and delivery does not include how to wire it. Multimeter out and here we go.
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3D bending

3D bending without a sheet metal bender ...

... and the result: a centre console!

Old school Lucas ignition & light switch and Smith watch.

General view now with big red warning light for low oil pressure fitted.

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Dashboard

After the tunnel cover was readily bent and the openings for the handbrake lever and gear lever were cut, I covered it with fleece just like some of the other inner panels.

Then it was time to bent some more aluminium panel and cut some big holes.

The final bending was done in the car. The holes for the switchgear have been drilled in situ to avoid them fouling the chassis rails.
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Dashboard out

Some more stripping done tonight, the dashboard and some other panels are out now. I labeled almost all of the cables which should be of help when I rebuild the car. The new loom will be custom made with all new cabling. Ripping out the pedal box was some work, especially getting the brake master cylinder and the clutch cable off.
More to come (off) next weekend.
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Dashboard

One of my first mods was to change the dashboard. Less gauges mean less weight. The central Stack includes RPM, speed, water and oil temp, odometer and tripmeter, a progressive shiftlight and lots of other gimmicks like quarter-mile timing, 0-100km/h acceleration a.s.o. Underneath remains oldfashioned with an oil-pressure and a fuel gauge, in the middle you can see the AFR-meter from Innovate. This unit measures the air fuel ratio (lambda) and with the help of a controller, the read values can be exported to a ECU thus altering ignition and/or injection. This may not be the last version of the dashboard. It might just have more class with all the gauges from the same manufacturer. In this case, I would opt for a full set of Stack gauges... time (and funds) will tell.
Cheers.
P.S. My car is not a trailer queen. You can see some road dirt on almost every published photo. Take it or leave it.