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924RACR · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:48 am Post subject: New dash time

Finally got things together enough to take a picture to share... this is the new factory dash, from the dealer, currently only available in black... still countless smaller things to fix/replace, but it's starting to get there...

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Cedric · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2610 Location: Sweden

If my engine would stop being broken some day i would like to get on with a new dash project. Looks like the texture is a bit different to the.door card?
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924RACR · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 5:08 am Post subject:

A little bit, some streaking also on the door card, but it definitely has a lot more pronounced graining than the dash. That said, the door cards aren't original either, to this car that is.
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Fifty50Plus · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:50 am Post subject:

Same place I have my Inovate on the dash!
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1982 924 Turbo nice body, blown engine
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Various 944s to become IT-S race car

Fifty50Plus · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:51 am Post subject:

Same place I have my Inovate on the dash!
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1979 924 NA race car
1982 924 NA race car - Sold
1982 924 Turbo almost a PoS
1981 924 Turbo a real PoS, new engine
1982 924 Turbo nice body, blown engine
1972 911 E race car - going to Vintage
Various 944s to become IT-S race car

peterld · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:30 pm Post subject:

OOh, so nice. Love the sports seats too!.
I see we share the same steering wheels

though yours appears to be a little stouter. To me it's the Goldilocks....not too thick, and not too thin.
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924RACR · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 9:13 pm Post subject:

My only complaint about that wheel is I wish the OD were same as stock. Didn't think to check when I ordered; it's a bit smaller, doesn't make the car easier to drive and so also blocks the gauges some. But I can live with it...
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'79 924 #77 SCCA H Prod racecar
'82 931 Plat. Silver
#25 Hidari Firefly P2 sports prototype

morghen · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 8883 Location: Romania

looks very nice.
I also use a smaller wheel, helps a lot with leg room and a better driving position.
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peterld · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2023 10:59 pm Post subject:

Funny thing, the steering wheels.
30+ years ago I thought the lovely original 3 spoke was too thin, so I got rid of it and replaced it with a nice MoMo Monte Carlo. This did many races over lots of years and then I got fatter and thought a small flat bottomed Autotechnica would be the ticket. Oh how wrong I was. Horrible! And too hard on the arms at slow speed, and too direct at speed for small changes of direction/correction.
And now to the Goldilocks.....the Prototipo.
So now the Monte Carlo lives happily in the '44 and the Autotechnica hangs forlornly on the shed wall. And I still miss the original 3 spoke!
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924RACR · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2023 12:23 am Post subject:

Yeah, the original 3-spoke was a most excellent design.

...and we run a Monte Carlo in our racecar, been in there for 24 race seasons and still works great!
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'79 924 #77 SCCA H Prod racecar
'82 931 Plat. Silver
#25 Hidari Firefly P2 sports prototype

Cedric · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2610 Location: Sweden

The prototipo needs a spacer imo to get the driving position and knee space correct. Very easy fix

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