Full swing at my dash again. Cut my gauge area from double fiberglass plates, 3.2mm overall thickness. Marked where my gear will sit and cut a rim on which my gauge plate will be bolted. I'll be stretching a material on my dash part (same way speaker boxes are made) so I screwed that rim on to a plate for stiffness. I put some tape on that plate first for resin not to stick to it, it will be removed once I'm finished with material and layers of fiberglass. This way I'll have an exact size rim for my gauge plate to bolt on.
Before cutting plates I took my screens apart. I don't need that plastic frame around and menu buttons were at the back. I need them at the front for brightness etc.
All those holes are for sinking M2 bolts for mounting the gear and mounting the plate to dash part. They will be covered by carbon kevlar later. More holes for 3mm LEDs for my dash lights.
I'll be sinking my gauge plate approx 4 inches deep from the front of my dash part, at least that's the plan so far. I'll do some brainstorming in the van later when I see how much space I have there. It'' look smth like this:
And of course I couldn't resist to power everything up to check and hooked on one of my racing drone cameras to check the screens:) Each side of the screen are their menu buttons, green LEDs for indicators, from the gauge bottom right white LED for engine warning (didn't have yellow and generally it is not coming on often:) and beside it there's a square hole for gauge's button to zero ODO and for setting the gauge. Bottom left red LED for e-brake warning and right beside it blue one for high beams. They look bright enough in the picture due to camera, but not as bad to the eye. Of course if you point them directly to your eyes they will be blinding, they're LEDs, but my gauge plate won't be pointing square to my face so it should be fine, besides that they are not lit all the time when you driving. But I'll check them once in the van in the dark and daylight, I might have to dim them somehow.