changing the dash

[stubbie65]

hi folks just wondering if any people out there have put a commodore dash into their builds??

[CraigA]

Jason from Cairns (fevanv6) did a great job of putting a Commondoor dash in his beautiful FC van.

I'm sure he'll post some pictures when he sees this post.

[sgo]

there's lots of commodores ::)

[stubbie65]

yeah looks good. the way id like to do it is the whole dash and was wondering if you have to shorten the width?

[Ed]

How's the project going SGO?

Cheers

Ed

[Ed]

yeah looks good. the way id like to do it is the whole dash and was wondering if you have to shorten the width?

as in put an entire Commo dash in place of the original? I suspect some cutting and trickery would be required.

[sgo]

After you cut a foot or two out of the width you'll also see that there's not a lot of depth (from front to windscreen) compared to that in the commodore body :-\

Ed, just need to make some kick panels, re-do door trims and respray, but no hurray as it's on the road now!
(Also got side tracked with a goggomobil)

[JB]

Here are a couple of pics for you...







Vt commodore instrument cluster.

Cheers
Jason.

[stubbie65]

looks like a top mod you did jason, yeah im doing up a ek ute so the commodore dash shouldnt come out too far as the ek dash is fairly deep might just need to muck around with the width