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Jul 31, 2011 | 03:45 PM

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Fabricated Dash

I've been looking for quite some time now but couldn't find much of anything. I pulled out the dash for my camaro drag car, and after realizing how big and heavy it was, we're considering making our own to save weight, and for more room. Has anyone made there own? Not looking to spend a lot, but want it to look clean. Aluminum, plastic, glass?? Please post pics, thanks.

Jul 31, 2011 | 05:27 PM

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keep in mind that fabbed dashes will keep you outta of some classes X275 being one of them ...glasstec makes a glass dash for the f body an so do some others ...do a search ...

Jul 31, 2011 | 07:12 PM

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This is just a bracket racing car. I don't really want to spend that much and have it look the same as stock.

Jul 31, 2011 | 07:14 PM

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yes hes right^^^^^^^^^and also lsx races.i just bought the vfn piece,and i realy like it.im having my chassis guy thats doing my 25.3 is installing the dash with dzus fittings.

Jul 31, 2011 | 08:04 PM

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Well, I don't really want to spend 300 bucks. I also read that some people just gut their stock dash and it ends up being almost the same weight as these, so I may just do that....

Aug 1, 2011 | 07:30 PM

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You can save some weight by gutting the stock dash for sure. But you will never get it down to the weight of the Glasstek one. Just depends on the funds. It also cost money to mount the fiberglass dash too

Aug 1, 2011 | 07:59 PM

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My stock dash weighed 11.1 lbs.

After I gutted it, it weighed 10.1 lbs, still looks factory by the way.

I called VFN and a representative said their dashes are approximately 8 lbs. Kinda hard to justify spending almost $400 for 2 lbs, plus the headache of having to mount it with fasteners.