Need advice, mame-ing a golden tee

[shredso]

I'm gonna help a buddy out with his first MAME cab.  He found a Golden Tee 99 cab with a decent monitor and bill validator for $400.  I thought this was a reasonably good deal.  Golden Tee being one of his fav games, this is a good place to start.  My plan was to fill the turn right/left and backspin buttons and drill out a Street Fighter (his other fav game) style config on either side of the trackball along with coin and player 1/2 etc.  I figure I will need an optipac, ipac and an arcade VGA card along with the buttons and sticks.  Anyone have experience filling in button holes and starting new ones?  I've had good luck with that plastic wood stuff but never on a hole that large.  Anything I'm missing?  My trackball is USB, I'm assuming you just cut off the harness and attach the wires to the optipac?

[maddags]

I would just get some new 3/4" or 5/8" MDF board and cut a new panel allot easier in my opinion. The track ball that is used on the golden tee machines has a big mounting plate, and don't know if you would have enough room.  I would buy a U-trak from Ultimarc as it does not need a mounting plate, I built a MAME cabinet for my friend out of a golden tee cabinet and had two joysticks with 6 buttons each and the utrak mounted in the middle and it fit perfectly. As for the componets that's all you should need.