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The dash work started with determining where I wanted each gauge to be.
I found a photograph of an original Cobra and used a similar gauge layout. I put the dash on the car just to see how
much space I had behind it.
I mounted three bus bars on the back of the dash: one for gauge power,
one for ground, and one for gauge illumination. Each gauge is wired to the buses, and each bus bar has one wire going to
the car wiring harness.
I added the senders for water temp., oil pressure, and oil temp. and
the tach adapter to the engine and ran the wires from the engine bay into the cockpit. The speedometer, voltmeter and
fuel gauge are wired into the existing Mustang wires.
The speedometer is to the left of the steering column and tach is to
the right. Above the steering column are left and right turn signal indicators (green) and high beam (blue). Below
the tach is a red charge indicator light. This light is especially important because it is part of the charging system
electrical circuit and the alternator will not function properly without this portion of the circuit.
The top row of the smaller gauges are water temp, oil pressure, and oil
temp. The bottom row gauges are voltmeter and fuel. Below the smaller gauges are the switches: horn, ignition,
parking lights, headlights, wiper, and heater/defroster blower.
I mounted the OBDII computer connector and an aux power port under the dash, above
the transmission tunnel.
With the cover on, the dash really looks nice. It doesn't get installed
permanently until after the body is installed.
The heater/defroster is mounted to the firewall. The blower and
water connections are in the engine bay, while the heater core and the box that the ducts connect to are in the cockpit between
the firewall and the dash.
| Heater blower mounted on the firewall |
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| Heater box mounted on the firewall |
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With the heater behind the dash on the passenger side, there's no room
for a glovebox. So, I put a Mustang Cobra emblem on the dash to break up the big empty space.
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