Another Porsche 911 Project #10
by Mads – April 18, 2021
Custom Dashboard
At some point in a project like this, you stop chasing originality and start chasing intent. Lightweight. Clean. Functional.
That was the idea here. Nothing extreme, nothing theatrical — just removing what doesn’t need to be there.
The lightweight idea (and the reality check)
I’ve always liked the idea of a lighter interior.
Not a stripped-out race car with nothing inside, but a version that still feels like a car while quietly removing everything unnecessary.
So I went for a fiberglass dashboard setup, including a lower switch panel cover. On paper, it sounded perfect. In reality… it wasn’t.
Fitment problems and fiberglass reality
When the parts arrived and went into the car, it became immediately clear that “bolt-in” was more of a suggestion than a fact. Edges didn’t line up. Corners didn’t sit right. Nothing really followed the original geometry.
So, like so many times before, the answer was fiberglass work again. I promised myself years ago I would avoid that material as much as possible. That promise didn’t survive very long.
Making it look like it belongs
The lower switch panel cover was the same story. Technically functional, visually unfinished.
Open ends, awkward transitions, nothing that felt like it belonged in the car.
So the goal shifted again — not just making it fit, but making it feel factory. Or at least factory-adjacent in a very specific universe.
Small details nobody notices (but everyone feels)
While the dashboard was being adjusted, I started working on smaller details around it. One of them was a set of custom covers for the heater blower openings, adapted from a Carrera 3.2 setup.
Nothing dramatic, but exactly the kind of detail that quietly changes how “finished” something feels. And just to be clear — no, the carpet you might see in early shots is not staying.
The truth about timelines
This whole phase took longer than expected. Again.
But that’s the pattern with projects like this. Nothing moves in a straight line, and nothing respects initial planning.
There are always other things happening in parallel — writing, ideas, distractions, life.
And somehow, the car just keeps progressing in between all of that.
