Guage swap? - Third Generation F-Body Message Boards

Winidas · 08-03-2009, 01:33 AM

I have a 90 RS and I absolutely HATE the 90's style guages. I don't like the shapes of the guages or the color used in them. I used to the an 82 belinetta and I loved the gauge style of that dash. Basically what I would like to know is how hard it would be to swap to a pre-yellow style guage cluster or possibly a guage cluster using dakota digital guages. Any help would be very appreciated and thanks in advance.

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JamesC · 08-03-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Winidas

Basically what I would like to know is how hard it would be to swap to a pre-yellow style guage cluster or possibly a guage cluster using dakota digital guages.

Swapping to the earlier cluster (pre-90) would require major modification since the two clusters are shaped differently, though you could swap dashes. If Dakota makes a panel for your car, swapping it in would probably be much easier than the alternative.

JamesC

mtflyboy · 08-11-2009, 12:41 AM

arent there some sweet glow guages and white ones out there so we dont have to have yellow?

InfernalVortex · 08-11-2009, 01:41 AM

I like the 90s gauges a lot better, but I hate the black with yellow on it. But I'm very happy with how mine look. In fact, teh dash and dashpad are about the only parts of my interior Im happy with at all lol.

They're a little harder to see around dusk than stock, but this video is about that time... and you can see em just fine.

http://s232.photobucket.com/albums/e...t=100_9387.flv

(The stock tach is disconnected just because it's so inaccurate, but I think I'm gonna put it back soon)

mtflyboy · 08-23-2009, 12:59 PM

are those like billet ones?

andrewmp6 · 08-23-2009, 10:50 PM

Dakota only makes them up to 89 your sol for a 90 unless you change the dash which is fun.

Al Hasse · 08-23-2009, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by andrewmp6

Dakota only makes them up to 89 your sol for a 90 unless you change the dash which is fun.

But you can have them made to order. Just send yours in and they retrofit their gauges into it.

Here's a shot of my 92 gauges, cost me about $900 at the time, now over $1000.

It's not a plug and play operation though. You need to find the input to the original gauges on the harness and tap into it, then route that to the Dakota Digital microprocessor.

Winidas · 08-24-2009, 02:30 AM

Those look amazingly better than the ones in there now. Does Dakota Digital provide an accurate wiring diagram depicting what wires I need to splice to the cpu?

Al Hasse · 08-24-2009, 03:40 PM

The instructions supplied by Dakota Digital are pretty generic. They at least tell you the color the wire "should" be for each make. You'd be better off opening an account with All Data, there you'll be able to find almost every wire and connector in the car for anything you want to do - www.alldata.com