Decided on black faced gauges along with the Fast Dash Logger.
For gauges, I plan on 2-1/16 oil pressure, water temp, oil temp, and maybe egt.
All gauges will be hooked to warning lights as I plan on being too busy to to spend much of my attention monitoring them.
Also, we will have a shift light and a flap light to tell us to remove flap angle.
The Fast Dash can be configured to compare flap angle to ground speed and will send a signal to the dash light.
My job as the driver is to hit up shift button when the yellow light (shift light) comes on and push the flap button when the blue light comes on. Both buttons will be on the steering wheel. I will have to hold the flap button until the light goes out. Because the output of the Fast Dash is PWM, I can program it to flicker before turning on or off completely. I could actually hook it up directly to the flap actuating motor but the rules (2.Q) say that that the computer can only control engine function.
Dash will be waterjet cut from .06 mild steel and welded permanently to chassis.