On a whim… I decided I wanted to re-wire my strobe switches, and mount my gauges in the dash. I made the old switch panel and the gauge cluster out of a sheet of carbon fiber many years back. When I bought the VDO gauges back in 2005… Summit sent me the wrong sending units, and I never got around to ordering the correct ones. The cluster has laid dormant in my garage ever since.This is basically what I started with. I pulled the center dash console, made a quick Home Depot run for some brackets and solder, and snagged some metal toggles from Auto Zone.

This didn’t take long. I like this setup much better than the carbon fiber plate that used to sit in the ashtray. This is much more solid.

Onto the gauge cluster install… I snagged some aluminum from Home Depot, and cut it to line up with the back of the carbon fiber that holds the gauges.

Drilled matching holes in the aluminum, and the console.

Pop-riveted them into place.

The right side had to be Dremel’d out with a cutting wheel, because it had an angled edge that the left side didn’t have.

Dremel’d two of the tabs slightly to allow for a flush fitment.

Then I cut one of the brackets to size, and bolted it to the aluminum plate.

You can see where this is going.

Riveted the cluster to the bracket.

Re-wired the strobe switches to the control module, and installed the entire center console back in the car.