{"id":69,"date":"2011-12-06T00:54:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-12-06T00:54:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:54:25","slug":"dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2011\/12\/06\/dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removed the front roll cage and trial fitted the dashboard<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-3n5DCyFf3zA\/Tq9grYwSzMI\/AAAAAAAABoo\/rtfpUrslb70\/s800\/2011-11-01%25252002.59.02.jpg\" title=\"GT40 Dashboard\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got one vent to go in<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-6A3jS8SRnhY\/TrcE-5As2WI\/AAAAAAAABuc\/A38Xpq4iJiA\/s800\/eyeball.JPG\" title=\"Capri Vent\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Worried at first it was too large assuming the back of the dash fitted to the flange but realised after seeing some other dashboards that the centre only pokes through.<\/p>\n<p>I have 3 of the gauges to go in<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-V6nJMEfMy_8\/TsfHl6L9DzI\/AAAAAAAAB4w\/EuALtJemlxA\/s800\/2011-11-19%25252013.15.14.jpg\" title=\"Dash gauges\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Along with the tacho<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nxeRqImLTLM\/TtAhQOtCDSI\/AAAAAAAAB38\/abj2whOC28Q\/s800\/2011-11-25%25252023.11.10.jpg\" title=\"Smiths 8cyl tacho\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holes for the smaller gauges will be cut by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forstner_bit#Forstner_bits\">forstner bit<\/a> to 50mm then enlarged as required with gentle sanding.<br \/>\nThis btw is my forstner bit<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-B-WEbIDe5-c\/TtApe6nKP7I\/AAAAAAAAB4k\/OiNcI82Zygs\/s800\/2011-11-25%25252023.46.38.jpg\" title=\"Forstner bit\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I do have one &#8216;slight&#8217; issue that the tacho is designed to be driven from an 8cyl engine and 1UZ-FE is run as two 4 cyl engines. If I was just to plug it in I will under read by 1\/2. I don&#8217;t see this as an issue as I plan on mostly running the instruments via CAN-BUS with an adapter, it&#8217;ll need some custom circuitry but someone helpfully pointed out the other day that one-off circuit boards can be had from $10 for 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removed the front roll cage and trial fitted the dashboard I&#8217;ve got one vent to go in Worried at first it was too large assuming the back of the dash fitted to the flange but realised after seeing some other dashboards that the centre only pokes through. I have 3 of the gauges to go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2011\/12\/06\/dashboard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dashboard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}