Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges?
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Melting Slicks
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Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges?
If I sell my car (may happen with the boy headed to college :( ), I would probably replace it in the future with a '74 that needed work instead of another '77 that had just been refurbished (that's what I did 8 years ago).
Anyway, one of the custom jobs I'd like to do would be a digital dash, so...
I'm curious, how much of a pain is it to replace sending units and plumb the wires to the gauge cluster?
Anyway, one of the custom jobs I'd like to do would be a digital dash, so...
I'm curious, how much of a pain is it to replace sending units and plumb the wires to the gauge cluster?
Pro
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Re: Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges? (jerryp58)
I've been looking at doing this, and I've decided I will probably get these http://www.intellitronix.com/dp2001.html
They are $100 less if you get them from Summit.
It looks like an easy installation.
They are $100 less if you get them from Summit.
It looks like an easy installation.
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Re: Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges? (Ben Taylor)
I've been looking at doing this, and I've decided I will probably get these http://www.intellitronix.com/dp2001.html
They are $100 less if you get them from Summit.
It looks like an easy installation.
They are $100 less if you get them from Summit.
It looks like an easy installation.
Pro
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Re: Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges? (Chris Fowler '80)
I'm pretty sure that they use the speedo and tach shown on the left side of this page.
http://www.intellitronix.com/streetd...l#Speedometers
http://www.intellitronix.com/streetd...l#Speedometers
Racer
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Re: Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges? (tworottiedogs)
I'm in the middle of doing it now. No problems so far except that I have 1982 with crossfire injection and there's an extra speed sensor that I had not counted on. Look on http://www.corvettefaq.com in the Interior section. There are a couple of descriptions on how it was done on earlier models.
I bought red as this was supposed to be the most visible in daylight. Otherwise I might have opted for another color. You will also need the speed sender unit which you can get from Summit.
The sender unit swap outs were little trouble.
I bought red as this was supposed to be the most visible in daylight. Otherwise I might have opted for another color. You will also need the speed sender unit which you can get from Summit.
The sender unit swap outs were little trouble.
Melting Slicks
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Re: Anyone changed from Mechanical to Electric Gauges? (jerryp58)
Check out Dakota Digital http://www.dakotadigital.com/Detail....TR6D-68C-VETTE. They are quite a bit more expensive, but in my opinion look a lot better. I saw these in a 74 at a show about a year ago and they looked great.
