I need buggy dash or console ideas...

Post by **Daniel G** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:48 pm

My cousin gave me an old aluminum truck toolbox that was bent on one side yesterday, and I am going to cut it up and make a dash or a console to mount my gauges and switches in, but I have no idea how I am going to do it yet, and I need some pics and ideas from you guys.

Post by **david58** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:06 pm

Let's see those dashes

Post by **Daniel G** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:28 pm

Thanks, David. I already took a look at it, though, and I really didn't get any ideas that I could use, since most of them were bajas. What I am trying to get ideas for is maybe a console that I can put in between the dash bar and the shift box, or a homemade aluminum dash that will cover the back of the gauges and wiring...

rickosuave1987 · Post by **rickosuave1987** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:08 pm

These are from Madrails. Bill there built my uncle's green rail below, he does a box like you are talking about out of 1/16 sheet metal.

This is my uncles rail. You can see the blue box below the bar above the shifter.

RAIL9222 · Post by **RAIL9222** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 10:33 pm

I made this dash for my car. I have a separate switch panel. The boost gauge and tach and mounted separate as well. Maybe not what you had in mind but it may give you some ideas.

dansparts · Post by **dansparts** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 11:14 pm

Post by **david58** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:20 am

That's one simple and clean cockpit.

fl_buggy · Post by **fl_buggy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:46 am

Here's mine in the rail buggy I'm currently building. I bought it blank for $20 from Fisher Buggies and cut the holes myself.

One thing that really helped is I took all of the pieces that I wanted to mount and CADed them up one day at work (boss was gone

). I drew all of my OD's and the hole each piece required, then I drew my panel up. I then was able to lay everything out to make sure it would fit, and then printed a few out at full size on paper. I used this paper as a cutting template on the dash. This way everything turned out lined up and even.