Rogue Trooper

[restoreid]

Hey Rouge what's that instrument cluster out of is that falcon or what Cheers Reid

[Rogue Trooper]

Hey Rouge...Can you tell me what that steering column is out of.? cheers....johnno

Hi Johnno. The steering column is out of an EB Ford Fairmont. It wasn't a straight forward conversion I'm afraid if that is what you are after. I transferred the original conversion process over from the old site and you can read all the gory details here...

http://www.buga.com.au/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=2&topic=221.0

Hey Rouge what's that instrument cluster out of is that falcon or what Cheers Reid

Hi Reid. The instrument cluster is out of the same EB Fairmont above that I got the steering column out of. Got the seats as well and they are in fantastic condition. Looked like they had had seat covers on for most of their lives. Very much looking forward to fitting those.

[John Abbott]

Thanks mate...

[restoreid]

Thanks Rogue They look good do you think they will all hook up ok Cheers Reid

[Rogue Trooper]

Should be fine. I've already rewired the van once before with a VK Commodore dash and got everything running on that although you had to know at which point the fuel gauge read empty. I never quite got around to sorting out the resistance values.

The dash is out of a six cylinder vehicle and it's a six going into the van so the tach will be fine. I'm also having the Fairmont fuel pump and sender fitted to the fuel tank as a higher volume unit than standard will be required for the fuel injection of the new engine so that sorts out the fuel gauge.

The brains will be a Link aftermarket ECU so the speedo should be fine and the rest of the senders for temp and oil are all much of a muchness.

[Rogue Trooper]

Well the dash has moved on a bit although it's taking absolutely forever. You can now start to get a rough idea of what the finished product may look like. The curvy bit around the instrument panel took me about 3 weekends! I guess that's what you get for making it up as you go. I've decided I'm not going to skin it till everything is wired up and running as it'll be really easy to trace any faults as well as add something I may have forgotten.







This gives you an idea of how I'm hanging things together and why it's taking so long. All these holes have been tapped.



I threw some props into the mix with these shots to give an even better picture of where it's going...









If this lot doesn't put you off building your own dash then nothing will!

[ben]

hey rouge you didnt consider just tacking nuts behind instead of tapping threads. thats lots of work!!!

[Rogue Trooper]

I've tacked nuts on behind for thicker threads like the 8mm bolts but for the 6mm and smaller it's actually easier just to tap the steel on the brackets as most of it is 3mm thick anyway so there's plenty of meat for the thread. Gives me more flexibility in places I can bolt to as I don't have to worry about having the bolts long enough to protrude from the rear of really large box section like I made the main cross member out of especially if I have brackets mounting on both sides.

[Sundownernz]

Very cool Rogue. Can't wait to see it on the road. Commin together well.

Keep up the great work and keep us posted on progress.

Cheers,
Garry.

[Rogue Trooper]

Thanks Garry.

Work on it is slowing up a bit as I have a bit of overtime at work over the next month or so but the good thing about that is it is bolstering the new engine and diff fund. I'm aiming tp have those in before the end of the year.