Designing a new dash need a few ideas (Page 3/108)
Starter NOV 02, 01:56 AM
i think the pirrana dash looks great, but you might also be able to sell modified 90's F-body dashes. they look good to, and they aren't too overly elequent. i'd also suggest looking into doing the door panels to match if you can.
Philphine NOV 02, 08:04 AM
something simpler to do that i'd like is a redesigned guage pod instead of trying to change the whole dash. say instead of being rectangular, it was round on top instead, like following the line of the top of the steering wheel. hopefully something big enough that one or two 3 3/8" speedo/tach gages (i think that's the size they are) or maybe even one 5" guage to sit higher so other guages could be added below.

think in terms of tina's reworked guage cluster to get what i mean.

or simper even, one of those trim ring looking things that fits around the guage pod and has locations for a couple of extra guages.

on the other end of the spectrum, say a whole new dash with "antenne" lined up with the a pillars that could hold guages or maybe tweeters for a stereo. say it had three locations on each side or maybe like one more on the drivers side than the passengers. if you just like guages (i do) you could have engine monitoring guages on one side and maybe like a clock and/or inside-outside temp guage on the passenger side. or fill all the spots with tweeters as part of a massive stereo system.

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Phil T.

start where you are,
use what you have,
do what you can.

JMunilla87GT NOV 02, 08:21 AM
yea the late 90s FBody dashes are sweet. I think they are almost a drop in for the Fiero. The only thing that would need to be reworked would be the door panels. Something like that would make it easier to find aftermarket parts support.

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Josh Munilla

dennis_6 NOV 02, 08:36 AM
My favourite would be the Piranha interior. It would need to be close to a carbon copy though. Next favorite would be a 4th gen Trans Am or 5th gen corvette interior. I don't want just a dash as the rest of the fiero's interior is garbage. It would need to be like V8 archies dash in layout.
OH10fiero NOV 02, 09:58 AM
Thanks for the info guys, this will help give me the starting point that I will need. I will be going down to Florida to pick up Cozmos Targa in the next week and a half, we will be using a lot of this input, and put it down on paper with some rough scetch ideas. I will post any new results here as they develop, and to get any feed back, keep the ideas comming.
Quad GT NOV 02, 02:15 PM
Screw the Russian dash......design something like the 300 ZX..that is one sweet dash....

getting back to the Trans Am dash....it will fit almost perfectly....but the doors will need to be redone also..I was wondering how close are the Trans Am door skins to the Fieros?

And does anybody have any finished Archied dash pictures

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GTFiero1 NOV 02, 08:25 PM
what ever you do, make it affordable. Personally i wouldnt mind a nice overlay. One ive seen which no one sells was one that layed over the fiero dash that made it look like its all one piece (not a seperate guage pod) with a glove compartment and filled in the space betwwen the drivers side A/C vent and the guage pod and the space between the guage pod on the center consol thing that has the ac and stero controls. I bet nobody has any idea about what im saying

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--Adam--
1987 Blue GT 5-speed
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OH10fiero NOV 02, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by Quad GT:

getting back to the Trans Am dash....it will fit almost perfectly....but the doors will need to be redone also..I was wondering how close are the Trans Am door skins to the Fieros?

And does anybody have any finished Archied dash pictures


does anyone have any pics of both the dashes he is talking about? any pics would help as well as ideas, funny no one has really mentioned sound system. keeeeeeeeeeep em comming guys.

Quad GT NOV 02, 09:14 PM
Hahaha GTFiero1 you lost meeeee lol.
Just kidding dudeeee, I couldnt agree more with you.
The cost is very important, the cheaper it is the more units will be sold!!!!

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gt boy NOV 02, 09:56 PM
..as long as it has somewhere to stick my slurpee...i'm in!

oh ya...angle the center console towards the driver.