New instrument layout

Since the tach will go into the small panel, there won't be as much room for the little gauges as there used to be...

The cluster will have the tach, speedo, oil pressure, water temp, low oil lamp, and a low oil pressure lamp.  I'll fab a little panel for under the center of the dash to hold the fuel and battery gauges.

The tach bezel is huge and doesn't look right next to the other gauges, so I'll make a new one before finalizing it.  It'll all end up looking something like this...

New instrument cluster

Long on my list of things to do is to clean up the instrument cluster.  I never liked the tach on the stalk to the side of the dash and I wanted to get things a little more polished.  The first picture is what it used to look like...

Day 1:  Pulled old cluster (I will make a single connector for the wiring so that nobody ever has to deal with all the spade connectors again), removed instruments, cut unnecessary plastic away from the dash piece.

Here's a BEFORE shot of the (soon to be sanitized) rats nest behind the instruments. It isn't too bad, I suppose, but I hate this kind of stuff.

Here's the slimmed down surround and the throw-away pieces.