1988 Supra Mariah: Floor and Stringer Restoration and more...

I finally had some time to put into getting her ready for the water. I got the new rub rail put on. I used a heat gun for the bow and corners. It also kept a small portion of the old rail insert and placed it in the receiver when making the sharp bends. It keeps the rail receiver from deforming too much where you can't get the insert to go in. I also glued down my hydroturf on prototype swim platform.

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I am switching out my gauges and switches. I plan on leaving off the upholstery helm cover and making a "carbon fiber" panels. I'm switching out the push button/breaker combo to rocker switches and breakers. I will be mounting the breaker switches on the inside of the stbd walkthrough storage. I messed up my first run because my spacing was too close. Originally it started with only the two panels, but now I'm making one for the center and lower steering area. I took rough measurements, drew it up in CAD, printed, and now I have to adjust the final CAD for cutting this week. The speedometer and steering wheel holes were purposefully made larger to be able to lay flat over the gauges and steering and used the concentricity to make the adjustments.

This is my old set up:

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This is the new set up. The paper and wood pattern was just a mock up for adjustments and the panels obviously have not be mounted since they are wrong. The final set will hopefully be done early this week. I still have to get a new tach. I also got a new carbon fiber steering wheel. Hopefully I'll be able to run her this weekend!

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Nice panels and gauges. It's nice updated look without getting too crazy.

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Originally Posted by TitanTn

Nice panels and gauges. It's nice updated look without getting too crazy.

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Thanks! Not using the upholstery cover was an accident. I told my girlfriend to work on the gauges while I worked on the rub rail and she forgot that we ever had it in the first place. I liked the way it looked and figured that I'd offset the gauge panels to fill in the gaps. Started off with the two panels, but it looked like it was missing something...so I will be adding the middle panel to tie it all in.

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In the process of taking the boat apart, a corner of the walkthough door molding broke off. I was contemplating making a temp mold and laying up a part, but that would require more time that I don't have right now. Instead, I'm going to do a plastic repair of the areas that are cracked or missing using super glue and baking soda.

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Get the part in place first.

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Tape up the front side to keep the glue from seeping through and fill the gaps.
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It didn't turn out too bad. Just have to sand and paint. I might do another round to get it perfect..but we'll see. Its pretty strong as is.

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That new dash looks great! Simple and clean, but definitely spruces it up! I thought of doing something similar but ran out of time haha. Where did you get your new gauges? I am looking for one GPS speedo gauge that's not a rip off. A friend of mine is a custom motorcycle builder and runs iPads as his dash/diagnostic displays on all of his bikes. He wants to set up my boat with an iPad dash display which I think would be beyond cool. That'll be next winters project.

What is sitting on the dash, above your speedos? Looks like atablet or maybe a GPS pickup?

The repair on the buckets looks good too. I wish I had all of the pieces of my trim, some pieces were missing when I got the boat so I am S.O.L. in that regard, oh well. My bucket is good though.

New hub for the steering wheel? Did you do this just so you can better align your wheel? That part looks sweet. Very nice work!

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That new dash looks great! Simple and clean, but definitely spruces it up! I thought of doing something similar but ran out of time haha. Where did you get your new gauges? I am looking for one GPS speedo gauge that's not a rip off. A friend of mine is a custom motorcycle builder and runs iPads as his dash/diagnostic displays on all of his bikes. He wants to set up my boat with an iPad dash display which I think would be beyond cool. That'll be next winters project.

What is sitting on the dash, above your speedos? Looks like atablet or maybe a GPS pickup?

The repair on the buckets looks good too. I wish I had all of the pieces of my trim, some pieces were missing when I got the boat so I am S.O.L. in that regard, oh well. My bucket is good though.

New hub for the steering wheel? Did you do this just so you can better align your wheel? That part looks sweet. Very nice work!

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Thanks Luke! It got the gauges from marine surplus in sarasota and ebay. I think I'm going to switch out the speedometers though. As much as I like the look, I didn't realize that the gauges start at 15 mph. We do a lot of surfing, so they wouldn't do us any good. We've been using a speed app on the iphone...but i gauge it mainly by look and feel of the wave. That would be pretty cool to use an ipad display in the center panel.

That black rectangular piece on the dash is one of my solar trickle chargers. I pay for covered storage and don't have a power source so I have one hooked up to each battery.

That hub came with the new steering wheel. It think it will look pretty sweet when I get it installed.

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That's steering wheel is sick! I have been looking for a new one, where did you find yours? Also, where do you get the solar trickle chargers? Id love to add one to my boat. What app do you use on your iPhone? Considered running an app for the time being since I have no speedo's

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That's steering wheel is sick! I have been looking for a new one, where did you find yours? Also, where do you get the solar trickle chargers? Id love to add one to my boat. What app do you use on your iPhone? Considered running an app for the time being since I have no speedo's

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Thanks! I got it from a company called forever sharp steering wheels. The solar chargers I got as a present, but I think you can get them at harbor freight. The app that we use is Speed Box. There are a number of different apps that are free. Just find the one with large numbers and the colors you like.