Yeah, I likey!

 

Ho-kay. I piddled around with the dash last night and today. Have one of those dash caps to replace the very attractive original.







Expect no quarter from the Arizona heat. Only the strongest, hardiest, tough as nails, and virile men can handle it.



So anyway, the goal is to get this thing glued on over the old dash.


I got a couple of Mitsubishi eyeball vents to replace the crumbling to dust old ones. After sanding down the old dash, taking out the high spots and digging out the old rotten foam, I filled the gaps with hot glue.




I used the rotary tool with sanding disk to trim out the rotten areas and clean up extra glue. Then I used my first generation Star Trek Phaser to heat up the glue and smooth it out.








The next step was to fit the dash cap. It was a little warped so I put some heat on it while holding it in position. Fit perfect after that. Squeezed out glue on the old dash. I only covered the edges leaving the main areas free to expand and contract.

 

Viola! The result.




Oh, here's a lucky find on eBay for $15.00 bucks. I felt like I found the Holy Grail.



I'll give the glue time to cure before I cover it with a high dollar genuine leather. I believe it's referred to as vinyl in the very best social circles.

 

^Wow, nice result on the dash!!

 

Thanks! Gonna go do the vinyl this morning.

 

Great job on the dash

 

What kind of glue did you use?

 

Power TEC Bond 246 High Performance Glue Sticks. What, thinking it's going to melt?

 

The thought came to mind. I tried hot gluing something interior once and it came apart in one day of parking the car in the sun. Whats the melting point on those sticks? If I was to do mine I would probably use some sort of silicon caulking in a tube.

 

I read 350 to 390, but that sounds pretty high. I'll find it one way or another.

The glue I used to secure the dash cap was IPS Weld-On #16 Plastic Glue Cement for Acrylic - Plexiglass. I forgot to include that in the post.

 

Thanks, Erick!

 

Yeah, that dash does look amazing. Nice job!

 

that turned out really nice!

 

Suscribed!!!! You are doing the same restore as I'm doing, with the difference thatyou are way ahead of me!!!

Keep it up!!! Looking really nice. Can't wait to see more pictures!

 

Funny here I am in Tucson reading about your build !!

Nice job !! Saw a couple RX7 off of Wilmont the other day ..

 

Thanks, MHP. The last time I saw one was Tucson.

 

I have had Cesar do work on my '83 RX7 and recently my phone crashed. I lost his number and I am trying to get a hold of him. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

Just shot you a PM

 

Finished rebuilding the engine and put her back in.

 

Looks good, I like how the gold looks on the charcoal canister and a/c line. Keep up the good work

 

^^Looking good!