Valvoline Racing VR1 20W/50 is good oil for aircooled vw engine.

Thats what I have been using 40+ years. It’s mineral oil. No problems ever.

Well you're in luck  . So as the original dash had been removed to provide templates for The One rebuild, so I'm minus a dashboard, which opened up opportunities for a bit of artistic license, I thought about the original black plexi-glass, I even found a black plexi-glass with glitter in that i thought might give a cool '70s vibe, but in the end i went for carbon fibre. The gauges come from Autometer and annoyingly they all are the Black signature series apart from the Oil Pressure gauge which they don't do in that style, so i've got a slightly different bezel on that one. If i can find a busted 52mm gauge with the bezel i need i might try some surgery to swap them.

Now the key to keeping a 9yo involved is making sure you have things to readily bolt on, to keep the interest going. So to make sure we had something to do this weekend, i decided to make the dashboard afterwork. Now i still need to drill new fixing holes in the right hand side and perfect the corner radiuses, along with mounting the switches and lights, but it's 90% there and we have something to bolt up on Saturday morning. The final thing i need to sort out is the space on the far right, on the original The One this was an interior light as can be seen in the second pic, now i can either copy that and i don't think it'll look bad or come up with something else....remote shift light???

Anyway that's it for today.

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