Light Weight Dashboard how to: Making a fiberglass dashboard for my 2007 Ford Focus race car
How to make a light weight dashboard for a race car.
Today I run through the steps to build a lightweight Fibreglass Dashboard for my 2007 Ford Focus racing car. Using a 2 piece split mould a friend loaned me and local fiberglass, gel coat and resin found in a boat yard.
I cannot ship PVA mould release so I show how I get stress free quick mould releases using just bee's wax.
This is part of a series documenting my 2007 Mk2 Ford Focus race car build. Being built as a replica to the WTCC and BTCC touring cars of this era, it features a M Sport tagged Ford racing shell. 2.0 Duratec engine fitted with Jenvey 40mm Throttle bodies, High compression pistons, AP racing brakes, AP racing pedals.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:05 Dashboard and car
00:30 Mould Intro
01:18 Mold prep
03:25 Mould release wax
06:01 Gel coat
10:26 Resin mix
10:33 Lay up
13:42 filling the joint
14:47 Unbolting moulds
15:09 Popping the moulds free
16:48 Final words
Smoking Steel Garage is a channel dedicated to DIY fabrication, Sim racing, and general motoring shenanigans. I'm no expert in any of the above, But with a "can do" attitude I can usually get it done! My aim is to motivate you to have a go.
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The rig hardware is as follow.
VRS Direct Force Pro wheelbase and Simline GT3 wheel
VRS Direct Force Pro Pedals
Fanatec Clubsport shifter, Sequential and H pattern switchable
Carbon Kevlar Tillet race seat from a Caterham G7.
Triple MSI MagOptix 27" monitors
PC specs:
Asus Motherboard Prime X570-Pro
AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X CPU
MSI 3080 Suprim X GPU
1tb NVME M4 SSD
Crucial Ballistic DDR4 Ram 4x8gb
Lian Li Galahad 240 AIO
Cooler Master V750 white edition
NZXT Matrix 510 case
Toshiba 4tb External Hard Drive
Shot using Huawei P30 Pro
DJI Osmo mobile 3 gimbal
Razer Kiyo webcam
Blue Yeti Nano Microhone
Edited using Davinci Resolve 16 (Highly recommended and its free!)