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Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:36 pm**

Hmmmmm not much progress.

Need to find my damn expanding foam...

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:39 pm**

holey %^&$ u have carved that up!!

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:41 pm**

Angle grinder + dash = fun!

If I find my foam (or buy some more) it will finally take some shape. Expanding foam is easy to shape with a rasp for anyone playing along at home

Posted: **Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:42 pm**

lol im gonna keep tuning in, this is lookin interesting!! lol

Posted: **Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:23 pm**

More plastic death:

At this point the dash was very flimsy so in to the car it went and got bolted in:

Next I added a backing so the foam had something to rest on:

Foam immediately after application:

Can you believe it! I ran out of foam

So need to fork out another $18 for another can. If I had known I would only get that much out I would have made a alfoil closer to the final shape desired so less foam was needed. Oh well, next time I re-construct a dash I'll know

Will grab more foam before or after work tomorrow and get some more foam down tomorrow arvo.

Posted: **Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:34 pm**

...How interesting. Tell me more... Has anything taken shape yet? or are you just filling in the gaps at the moment? Got any more pic? Or is it all going to be kept under a blanket untill it is finished?

Posted: **Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:55 pm**

The foam is being built up and then will be shaped to how I want the dash to look. Then I'll lay down some glass fibre over that and then the foam all gets scrapped away and more glass on the underside.

Then time to make the tweeter mounts and headunit mount and cluster mount and whatever else needs to be mounted. By then it should be looking pretty special and in need of trimming.

I gave up on keeping it under wraps on here. I'll be using this worklog as a basis for when I post on other forums showing the final product. It's not posted anywhere else, Tamon exclusive!!

Posted: **Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:29 pm**

YAY lucky us! lol

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:54 pm**

As of lunch time today:

Shaping starts tomorrow

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:55 pm**

looks good... just mount the guages n s*it in that....

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:20 pm**

Thats custom as mate

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:43 pm**

holy fark!!!! ... u dont even have a dash man - cant wait to see how it turns out..

have you thought about the regulations about dash material yet?

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:40 pm**

Started the shaping:

One side done:

Test fit:

View from the driver's seat:

Overall view:

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:43 pm**

Gladier wrote:have you thought about the regulations about dash material yet?

Not really. Everything modified in the car will have engineer's approval. So I will have to construct a dash pad which will be wicked easy because I deliberatly made the passenger side slightly smaller to allow for the pad material

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:54 pm**

You only need a crash pad if the original dashboard was equipped with one. If anyone asks buy an old Hatch dashboard (which has no padding) and show them that.

Strangely enough the MB dash was the only one of the Aussie Suzuki Kei's that had a crash pad - not even the later model Alto had one.

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