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Dace

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When I purchased my BN7 it was an almost totally stripped LHD car. This has given me many puzzles to solve during the rebuild and convertion back to the correct driving position -RHD (sorry guys only kidding). As the saying goes " the devil is in the detail" and hence another basic question. How does the aluminium dash attach to the bulkhead? I can see from the illusrtated parts list that there are attaching screws on the extreme horisontal edges but what is the fit along the top edge, overlapping, under the return etc. Apologies again if this seems a strange question but without the detail in the literature or "live" examples to compare to I'm hesitant to start driling metal until I'm surer of my facts.
It sometimes feels like trying to complete a construction kit without the plans and some of the parts missing off the plastic sprues,
DACE
 
Dace,
There are three areas where the roadster dash connects to the car. On the outer edges along the return piece from the door opening there are two screws with finishing washers on each side. In the front center there is one phillips pan head machine screw with a nut that goes through the bracket welded to the underside of the scuttle top. Lasty there is a bracket that will bolt to the firewall just to the left of the steering column that extends to the lower part of the dash under the left large gauge opening.

Steve
 
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