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3000GT DASHBOARD UPDATE by scarletmacaw9
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Report this Post08-02-2004 10:53 PM Click Here to See the Profile for scarletmacaw9Send a Private Message to scarletmacaw9Direct Link to This Post
HI all well here the finish dash that I started 2 weeks ago .mostly wait for the gauges .hope you guys like it new looks .I know do.now it needs some cleaning up to do





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WOW... thats all i have to say... it looks REALLY good adn it seems to have been very well done... a plus to you...

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Not bad, Not bad at all!!!! That looks amazing, great work. +!!!
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Damn thats really nice with those guages and speaker pods. You just have to clean it up and sort out the little details... then swap in some door panels, change the colour of the pillars and headliner. Great Job! You get a + ... and how hard was the wiring for the gauges and what brand are they?
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Report this Post08-02-2004 11:26 PM Click Here to See the Profile for DotTCSend a Private Message to DotTCDirect Link to This Post
looks nice.. imo, the speakers ruin the whole thing but overall it looks good..

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Originally posted by doublec4:
and how hard was the wiring for the gauges and what brand are they?

I agree. How hard was it to get the guages and climate controls to work?

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Report this Post08-03-2004 12:14 AM Click Here to See the Profile for scarletmacaw9Send a Private Message to scarletmacaw9Direct Link to This Post
thanks. Yes I'm very please the way it turned out. I will work on the panels next. about the speakers I can mount them flush on the dash but I kinda like them face up like that with the grills like that and sound excellent too.
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i donno the dash looks great but the speakers need to be flush mounted
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I agree. How hard was it to get the guages and climate controls to work?

well not that hard. the climate control I use fiero orginal it fit right in no need to cut or rewired. the gauges wiring not that's hard either . got some help on here to identify the wire color .

speedometer is 200mph Autometer electric = 2 wires from fiero conector purple/black and Yellow i connected yellow to ground and purple/blck to SIG on the gauge and other wire from the gauge go to parking light
the tachometer I traced there is 3 wire connect to old tach from the connector but only one need to connect to new tach

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Hey man thats pretty badass......you did a good job fitting the dash in, are you going to got the the 3000's door panels also?
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Report this Post08-03-2004 08:46 AM Click Here to See the Profile for NotAFieroAnyLongerSend a Private Message to NotAFieroAnyLongerDirect Link to This Post
Very Nice! I can't wait until I get to my interior aswell...

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Report this Post08-03-2004 11:27 AM Click Here to See the Profile for revinSend a Private Message to revinDirect Link to This Post
hummm NICE !

What Year dash?

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Dash year? I think they all the same any from 97-03
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thats looks really sweet! Was there much cutting to do to fit it in and do the AC-unit fit exactly or do you have to frame it somehow? The gauges, do they exactly fit in the holes? From the pictures it looks perfect to me, a plus for you!
So did you buy the whole interior or only the dashboard, ie what pieces do I need to buy to get the swap starting over here? :-)

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Report this Post08-04-2004 10:06 AM Click Here to See the Profile for Black-Azz-GTSend a Private Message to Black-Azz-GTDirect Link to This Post
Man, that looks realy good. Way to go and way to try something new.

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there are alot of small cutting .I mostly cut by hand. dash acutally fit right in but cut in about 1/2'' -to 1'' at defog vent. and cut the inner glove box to fited.basicly tha's itt.ac vent actaully about 1/8'' off no big deal air pretty much pass through no blockage.but 2 vent at passenger side and driver side need to run a flexible hose to direct air. I fasten it with 3 screw at top 2 at the bottom .and it very tight in place
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I must say that although the stock dash has never been a problem for me that you did an excellant job with this modification!!
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Do you have any pictures and other info. your going to post showing to install, it looks good. I would like to see just what was involved.

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quote
Originally posted by doublec4:

Damn thats really nice with those guages and speaker pods. You just have to clean it up and sort out the little details... then swap in some door panels, change the colour of the pillars and headliner.

I don't know, I kind of like the Black and Tan (Guiness drinker)...although I might change the headliner and the lower door panels to black, just to extend the theme to the rest of the car...


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black and light tan is a great mix - the combo i did was tan seats, door vinyl, center consol and dash - the pillars, carpets, doors carpets, firewall cover, and headliner all went black - looked really sharp (did i mention i love guiness)

edit for pic: it needed a new steering wheel tho

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Originally posted by Kohburn:

black and light tan is a great mix - the combo i did was tan seats, door vinyl, center consol and dash - the pillars, carpets, doors carpets, firewall cover, and headliner all went black - looked really sharp (did i mention i love guiness)

edit for pic: it needed a new steering wheel tho

Yeah, that's the ticket, I hadn't realized how far up the console the carpet extends. Looks tuff...
Guiness, yum, I like Hefeweizen, too, and dark German beer...oops, we now return you to our regularly scheduled topic...

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that looks alot better than the fiero dash great job !!!
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Looks cool, it's nice to see a unique dash swap go well!

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The 3000 dash setup looks great!

Here's another picture of black and tan for anyone interested... I was still in the process of putting it together but it is far enough along that you get the idea...

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I really like the interior door re-skin. Who did that for you? The diagonal stripe really wakes up the interior! Scarletmacaw, I'd give you another plus if I could, great job!!!

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I had a local upholstery guy sew the door panels for me. I had him find material that matched the new seats and sew it with the diagonal black stripe. He actually didn't do what I wanted. The black stripe was supposed to be farther forward where the entire black section of the door handle would be enclosed in the black. I still think it looks better than stock Fiero though.

The new panel cover is padded and just glued on over the old door panel. We did get rid of the ridge where the two parts come together on the original panel though. We wanted it to be smooth.

I used to use an upholstery guy up in Madison when I lived in Nashville. He had a shop real close to the mall there.. Seems like last I heard though, he had moved his shop to his house in Hendersonville. He did great work and for a great price!

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another black and tan (beechwood)

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OK Here it goes .a month ago I bought my first Fiero.can't wait get my hands on it. next day I started to clean up the car drive around for 1 day ok good enought .I'm just the guy who like car but don't known anything about mechanic dont even know how to change oil. anyway second day of own the car i got the itched to do more so i .I siad what the heck it is only fiero not BMW . by my surprised. I took the dashboard off in 20 minus and by using a steak knife screw driver and socket tool I was able to installed the 3000gt dash inplace in one day so easy than i expected. and for 2 week of waiting for the gauges to arived I drove around with fiero dash and installed the new cd player and arlam with keyless entry .this save over $200 for the store to install the arlam and keyless entry . well the photo above show the speakers it sound excellent.

NOW 4 weeks later .I can't stop next thing I know my car is bare to the bone . i cut the front the fender...etc
here see it your self

dash with new cd player

look no windshield

speakers are sit lower now

and no front bumper radiator will be sit where the spr tire was

no roof no back window

done all of this in 2 days . don't know what come up next

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what are you trying to do? i like the dash, but im confused as to why you are gutting your fiero

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DIY choptop?
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Surgical weight loss junkie?

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He does a nice dash conversion and then decides to quickly destroy the remainder of the car with his sawsall??????
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cut off the front bumper.. i'm guessing lambo?
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yes it is. look far back there are 2 body parts stand against the wall ,waiting for bolt on. I hope I will able to install them next week . there will be more more photo when I done more.
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well I just changed the stickshift yesterday. new aftermwrket shifter .nicer look may be I cut a little too short

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you did brace the frame right?
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not yet will do some welding next week. just changed the sparklugs today . since i don't know when did the previous owner did it. anyway because there is no roof no backlid it makes easier to get to 3 sparklug infront but still very hard to get them out. cost me few cut and bruised. glad i did it because the old they look clean but the gap r all differrent . there is one sparklug with no gap at all
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DIY choptop?

it got chopped ok...lol

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right now i call it fiero roadster
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