Just wanted to share this project. I bought an empty, modified frame with some problems that I figured out and fixed, sometimes with the help of the friendly guys at the Geekslut part of this forum.
I filled it with what I had and now everything is working great and the console sounds lovely. There are many extra returns including a monitor section from an 8014 so I have 27 channels at mixdown. The 1272 amps are moved to a "cage" at the back to make room for the 2254 compressors on the front.
Much of the mods were done or at least started upon when I got the frame. The other (four actually - group 1&2 and L&R) bus bars are under the routing modules.
I've gotta say that there are few things of which I'm even moderately envious... fill the thing out with 1084's and I would be even more envious than I am looking at those [truly slutty] photos!!