[rlips]

All cleaned up, dash finished. This is from a few weeks ago, the dash is in now, fire system is in and we expect the engine back by the end of the month.

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[Cloud9...68]

Very nice. While there is definitely beauty in, say, a sleek Italian sports car, I also find great beauty in the sheer functionality of the interior of a race car that's clearly all business. Very cool indeed.



Do you feel that the water temp gauge that you've installed is any more accurate than the stock one, and if so, why? I'm still debating over which gauges I'd like to put in my center console where the cubby goes (for now, I'm keeping the stock dash and gauges). Outside of oil temp, I'm still drawing a blank, so any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[rxter]

You could take the door puller out and save a couple of grams - they are doing that in the 987s now - ha. The tub looks the business.



I was advocating the use of a CO2 fire extinguisher to freeze the glue in another post a while back, but this is so seldom done that no-one has taken me up on it. I was thinking about tearing my carpet out just cause it was pissing me off in the 93, but it looks pretty good in the 94 so I won't screw with it at this point.

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[rlips]

[quote name='Cloud9...68' timestamp='1326235167' post='120290']

Very nice. While there is definitely beauty in, say, a sleek Italian sports car, I also find great beauty in the sheer functionality of the interior of a race car that's clearly all business. Very cool indeed.





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Oh, I agree about the Italian car....got one of those as well, but it doesn't see track time...too fragile for the way I track

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[rlips]

One more shot of the dash, final configuration:

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[Cloud9...68]

rlips,



Approximately how much weight does your custom dash save? The wiring on that creation looks scary, at least to me. But you seem to know what you're doing.



And that interior with the horsey on the steering wheel is pretty sharp, too <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[rlips]

[quote name='Cloud9...68' timestamp='1326318526' post='120354']rlips,



Approximately how much weight does your custom dash save? The wiring on that creation looks scary, at least to me. But you seem to know what you're doing.



And that interior with the horsey on the steering wheel is pretty sharp, too <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" />[/quote]



Close to 12 lbs saved. My mechanic is doing the wiring, not me. But I am an electrical engineer so I figured out how to tap in to the abs system to get pulses for the digital speedo I also reverse engineered the fuel sender to get the digital fuel gauge to work. The rest is, according to my mechanic, straight forward.



The switches are as follows, left to right:



Master/ignition

Push to start

Data acquisition

Cool suit pump

Cool suit fan

Race radio power





That's pretty much it. We took out 4lbs of unneeded wire.



Yeah, the horsey interior is nice. Smells good too!

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[pmason]

I would be interested in what he is doing to do a push start, as the new car while he gave me the keys the car didn't have door handles, took them off my old car now I have different keys. I will probably just switch out the ignition too but a push button my be nice.

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[Cloud9...68]

So that's your Ferrari? Looks like a 430, judging by the manettino. I didn't know they paid EE's so much better than Chem E's (UC Berkeley, class of '81) <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[rlips]

[quote name='Cloud9...68' timestamp='1326396814' post='120422']So that's your Ferrari? Looks like a 430, judging by the manettino. I didn't know they paid EE's so much better than Chem E's (UC Berkeley, class of '81) <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" />[/quote]



Yep, 430. Well, I own the company, so they pay me pretty ok! Plus, I didn't buy it new.

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[Cloud9...68]

Just curious - out of all the cars to make a race car out of, why did you choose a 968? Had you raced 968s or 944s before?

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[rlips]

[quote name='Cloud9...68' timestamp='1326516539' post='120477']

Just curious - out of all the cars to make a race car out of, why did you choose a 968? Had you raced 968s or 944s before?

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Good question. I am doing it largely on faith, my coach races the 968. I did two track event in the car before we started this crazy build, and found the car to handle very, very well..., but to be honest, there is no real justification other than the smiles I hope it puts on my face.



R

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[Cloud9...68]

Pretty much the same story with me. I've owned the 968 for nearly six years, and started doing DEs with it three years ago. It's the only car I've ever driven on the track. I enrolled in a driving academy in town, and fairly quickly go to the point where I simply couldn't drive the car any faster (nor could the academy owner, a retired racer of 25 years), so I was planning to sell it and use the proceeds to build a real track car (I was planning on building a 2nd gen Toyota MR2), but then was convinced by many on this board that 968s can make fantastic track cars if set up properly, plus I discovered that mine is worth so little that its proceeds wouldn't have gone very far toward builing a track car, so I've got mine torn apart in the process of completely revamping the suspension (torsion bars deleted, solid/sperical bushings everywhere, Moton Clubsports, 700/1000 lb springs, etc.), and am also rebuilding the engine, along with hopefully pulling at least 200 lbs out of it. I'm not going as far as you in stripping the interior, though - yet - as I still plan to drive it on the street on a very limited basis. My goal in all this, like yours, is to end up with the widest possible grin on my face. I'm doing practically everything myself, so it's taking forever, but I hope to start re-assembling the engine this coming week.

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[rlips]

Interior complete. Engine installed. Car will be aligned and corner balanced on Tuesday. It's been a long winter....

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[Cloud9...68]

Very nice. Love your dash - where did you get the shell?



I started my project nearly a year ago, it isn't nearly as extensive as what you've done, and there's still no end in sight <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.png" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[benspeeder]

Gotta send in pics of my redone interior



Nice but your dashnis a winner!!!

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[pmason]

Nice, wow you got that all back together pretty quick, I'm so far behind, will be putting the rear suspension back in this weekend, still have trans, front suspension, engine, interior, ok a lot to do. Did get the old car totally stripped and out of the garage :-)

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[flwbyu]

Wow, that looks awesome! SO clean. Have you dino'd the car yet? Total weight of the car? We need specs. Please?!

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[rlips]

[quote name='flwbyu' timestamp='1330804181' post='122695']Wow, that looks awesome! SO clean. Have you dino'd the car yet? Total weight of the car? We need specs. Please?![/quote]



Yes, I've dynoed and weighed the car. I can't give specs out, sorry, I am going racing. But, I will be adding ballast to the car to make weight, and I can report that the engine is healthy.



Car is aligned and corner balanced, we are finishing little things now.

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[flash]

lol - i remember having to do that with the aluminum body sebring mgb (there were only 3). it was so much lighter than the steel body that we had a real advantage. they made us add weight.



good on ya - sounds great

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