[JustJeff]

Finally got around to doing more with this. I started over with the black aluminum panel. I did it double DIN and that made it so much easier.

A little tape to help protect the surface and keep it pretty. It's also very useful cause I had a surface to write on and make notes.


The notches up top are for the screws on the bracket. I used a 2" hole cutter drill bit thingie. The middle one skipped and cut into the panel. It's not terribly noticeable once it's in the car. I'll probably just touch it up with some flat black paint.


One important thing...if I had made the outer gauges any further out the mounting bracket would not have fit. What I did for spacing them...well beyond simply measuring was this. I mounted the bracket and mounted the center dash molding and traced the edges so I knew what area I had to work with. I did it because the gauge panel does not sit quite even on the headunit bracket. If I measured end to end of the gauge panel the holes would not have been centered once it was in the car.


There it is mounted. I still need to touch up the scrapes and actually wire in gauges...but that can wait till I'm installing the rebuilt engine.