Once I have an accurate buck, I could make a dash, in the proper shape, out of
aluminum just as easy as wood. If that was the overwhelming choice of
material, there would be no problem offering that.
I'm surpised you say "every custom dash you have ever seen is aluminum"... as I
can not say that... going to vintage races... I've seen plenty of people
simply alter their original wood dash... or slap in a blank of some material
other than aluminum.
However, of course, fire is a good point. You could paint the back of a wood
dash with fire-retardent paint. Or... you could use aluminum.... as mentioned
...or a flame retardent material.
Henry Frye wrote:
> At 12:53 PM 11/6/00 -0800, jmwagner wrote:
>
> >all done in a high quality
> >plywood (similar to stock)... without a laminate.
>
> Justin,
>
> You had me intrigued until this part. Every custom dash I have ever seen in
> a race car is aluminum.
>
> I have played with the idea of making one for my car, using aluminum. But
> when I realized my big Stewart Warner tach would fit in the original dash
> with a minor amount of work, I opted to keep the original. I have a dash
> out of an early car, all steel. Someday I will rework the dash to move the
> tach to a place where the steering wheel can't get in the way of reading
> it... Honest, I will!
> Henry Frye - thefryes@iconn.net - TR4 #05
> http://members.iconn.net/~thefryes/race/raceintro.html
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