Did you find the foam to be wet

No, it was not hard to remove at all. It had foam on te top portion of the perimeter so what i did was used a hack saw blade and cut it loose.
Foam was not wet.
Any body knows if the foam were using is it closed cell? (does not absorb water).

I've been doing some work on the V lately, can't go full throtle, i've been busy with work. Anyway, besides changing all wires, removed live well(what a huge space under it), changing location of second battery(under the live well), also in the same location i installed the raw water washdown pump, battery charger and the second battery.
I remove part on the original console and made a new one to fit my gauges, switches and GPS.
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Also painted the side rod holder boxes, they came out much better that expected.
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For some reason some of the pics i took today they came out.............. green? I don't know why.

Nice work, the pics come out green cause you have to adjust your digital for fluorescent lighting.

I never had to before, besides, i took some pics outside with the same results ?????????

fluorescents cause green, incandescents cause red. If you got green outside you might have had the setting wrong for daylight. I don't know but that is how photography works. also if you had red eye setting and flash with daylight it can cause odd happenings. You have to check the settings for the lighting you are using, especially with digital. If you leave it on auto sometimes it reads wrong and sets the lighting wrong.

Wow love the dash and gauges I have an older 200hp yamaha (1989)with the ditial gauges ,,i see you converted to the analog style gauges so i got to ask,, was it hard to convert back to the analog gauges and is there any way i can get a simple drawing of how you done it

I have not connect anything yet, the only gauge that has to be connected to the harness is the tach(the digital) which gives RPMS, hours, trim position, oil level indicator and high water temp idiot light/warning, the rest of the gauges get connected to the motor with senders. When i finish i'll try to post the way i connected them.
I like the analog gauges better because i can see the needle better than trying to press the mode button on the digital to check voltage, temp, fuel level, etc.
I also got the fuel management that connects on the Lowrance and gives a whole bunch of info on the GPS screen.

NEM. maybe i overlooked it, but why the two temp gauges? i have always wanted to chop off my dash and make some room for larger electronics. i am sure when these boats were built in the 80's they never imagined the amount of goodies that would be available to the average boater..