The next phase in our S71 Dash Re-Do was to powdercoat the new face with Eastwood's Wrinkle Black powder coat, and the look matches the factory plastic dash pattern perfectly.     Then we mapped out where to place our two remaining gauges, which meant we had to move the stock radio location over a little.   We made another steel faceplate for that area designed to hold the volt meter and a newer style "DIN" sized head unit.   

We used the newly powder-coated face as a template to trim the original plasic gauge bezel to fit the new gauges.   Note how closely the Wrinkle Black powder matches the factory molded plastic dash texture and color!

We still needed room for 2 more 2 5/8 gauges for Boost and Volts, and we wanted to fit an updated stereo head unit in the dash, so we made a new faceplate for the radio and the volt meter to replace the original radio mount.    It will be also be powdercoated Wrinkle Black to match.    The boost gauge will be installed on the left side of the steering column in a factory open space.   

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Blair Tools

Eastwood

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YearOne Speed Shop

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