I just couldn't help but show everyone the new dash I've made for Candy. Just finished upolstering it on the long weekend. Hard to believe it was once just a crappy peice of custom board!!

What do you think?

Cheers Ray.

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1972 Mini Clubman 1380
previously 1330 85 bhp @ 6000 rpm new engine no idea?

My00 WRX
190 bhp @ 5800 rpm

I Love it apart from the speakers, they are too big and just don't look right on such a nice dash. Otherwise

nice work...IMO the dash is the worst bit of a clubby..thats a huge improvement.

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Very nice I like it Are you going to do anything so that you can see when your indicator is on? I can't see anything cut out there.

do you have any plans for VDO or similar guages above the tape / radio, or keep it nice and simple?

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Roads need more corners
A Deluxe(CG13DE), 2 Clubbies(998 and 1275) and 2 Morris 1100Ss

yeah that looks kool, looks cumfy
so how did u attach the dash?
What size are those speakers?
shoulda centered the head unit...

otherwise looks flash...
twista

Candy..Nice Job

Of course it a Clubby Blaukpunk Speakers I think Tape deck.
SAAS wheel and matching Stick
Dash looks nice Leather/Vynal...Nice Job

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You can't centre the head unit and still see the gauges through the steering wheel there is not enough room the head unit runs up the side of the gauges so it has to be a bit off centre.

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Roads need more corners
A Deluxe(CG13DE), 2 Clubbies(998 and 1275) and 2 Morris 1100Ss

Hey thanks guys!! Always good when others appreciate your handy work.

A few points...

1. Yes I have plans to place 3 2" gauges above the stereo. The holes are already cut in
the wood beneath the leather. I want to put an oil pressure gauge, but no ideas for
the other 2? Any suggestions? Also, the original gauges will be making way for new
VDO gauges one day.

2. Yes Crappy blankpunt speakers and ancient Alpine tape deck. Only in there because I
had them lying around in the garage. They WILL be replaced as funds become
available ( likely to be after sept when my first child is due!!) Nice new Alpine CD
player and MB Quart speakers to be fitted.

3. I know speakers are huge, and look out of place on the nice dash, but where else
was I gonna put em? After I change the speakers for decent ones it should look nicer.
But the large speakers saved me having to have ugly exposed screws to fix the
bottom of the dash in... the screws in the bottom of the speakers fix the dash to the
original tray on the bottom!!

4. Twista, I took a few pics from behind the dash of how it is held in on the top on the
left, right and center. Basically a metal bracket screwed to the back of the dash and
hooked around to hold on to the top. Magic, no ugly screws!! Read previous point for
how it is held in on the bottom.





5. I'm looking for cylindrical globe covers to put through to the front of the dash so that
the indicator lights can actually be seen. Hehe, forgot that at first.

And yes, finally the stereo couldn't be centered because of the instrument cluster.

I'm loving finally having a glove box!! Whoo hoo. Almost as good as sitting in my rex now!

Ciao, Ray.

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1972 Mini Clubman 1380
previously 1330 85 bhp @ 6000 rpm new engine no idea?

My00 WRX
190 bhp @ 5800 rpm

hey ray that looks great mate,, im doing my wifes mini dash at the moment too, but will not look anywhere as good as that. top job.

by the way your sig says 85hp@wheels in your clubby, any specs for us to read on it?? makeing some nice power there.

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1974 Moke - 998cc
76 Clubman B16a2 Vtec AWD Turbo 12.9@105mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9PW49e1hYs

wicked

Candy was a bit of a surprise catch. Owned by quite a few people recently and someone along the way spent quite a bit of money restoring and rebuilding the whole car.

The guy I brought it off knew nothing of the mods to the engine, as it was idling like a pig trying to breathe through twin 1 1/4" SU's. He told me it just needed a retune.

After finding out about a Wade 140 Cam and spotting 1.7 lift roller rockers in the top of the engine it became apparrent to me and a friend that there was some engine work done here. So we decided to get a Weber to allow for a better cfm flow to correct the extreemly rich idle due to not enough air making it in. After fitting LCB's and a 2" exhaust got it dyno tuned and got that figure of 85bhp at the wheels.

Don't realy know about the internals, but I've sofar found
-ported and polished head
-1.7 lift roller rockers
-wade 140 cam
-uprated diff
-cooper s uni joints
and put on
-Weber
-LCB's
-2"exhaust

I'm assuming some large overbore and pistons ext...

Compression test gives me 190psi ~ 13.5:1 compression ratio.

Just got lucky I guess...

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1972 Mini Clubman 1380
previously 1330 85 bhp @ 6000 rpm new engine no idea?

My00 WRX
190 bhp @ 5800 rpm

small (maybe square) tweakers, instead of those speakers would probably look really good.

Dash looks great! Good job

Gauges:

Tacho
Speedo
Fuel
Engine Temp
Volt meter
Oil temp
Oil presure
Analogue clock

As for the indicator and handbrake lights, I'd put thm where the ashtray goes, and tint them dark to blend in.

Dash looks great by the way.

how did u acquire those brackets, did u make em or buy em somewhere?

Warning lights in dash boards can be a pain. Triumph Mark2 2500 sedans and also Triumph Dolomites had a neat round binnacle the same size or very close to the standard Smiths auxilary instrument size. It held all the warning lights for the car. Have a look at one.

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Everything I like is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.