ramicio

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How has no one here tinkered with their digital dash?

It doesn't even have to be destructive. To just change the colors you can just take out the film from behind the LCDs and replace them with something printed of a different color.

I don't even see that anyone has replaced the incandescent bulbs with LEDs.

The ultimate would be to replace every segment of every display with an LED (make new displays from scratch). The oil pressure, coolant temperature, and voltage displays would be easiest. Then the odometer would be second easiest. One would just have to build circuitry to drive the LEDs from the LCD signals (an amplifier). There would be plenty of room for that with all of the free space behind the displays not needed anymore for illumination.

EDIT: This is about the Trans Am digital dash, not the Berlinetta.

John in RI

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IMO:

The "ultimate" would be to simply find someone that can make a Digital Berlinetta Speedometer display show greater speeds than 85 MPH !!




I've worked around that limitation by installing other parts - but never found someone with the skill to modify the factory circuit boards.

ramicio

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Oh, well my OP is specifically about the Trans Am digital dash. I should have been specific about that.

What you're speaking of, it would probably be easier to replace the factory board than to modify it.

ramicio

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How about getting the shift light to come on with the TCC on an automatic? Analog people just have to put in a bulb. I'm assuming on the digital dash there is no wire run to the cluster, or it's cut somewhere.

John in RI

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Ya' I got that from your post,..... I picked up my first digital dash GTA a few months back and have yet to crack open the cluster to look inside.

Since manipulating a digital cluster was the topic - with some luck - someone with digital cluster knowledge will see my earlier post and provide some info.

P.S. The display board from a Berlinetta is capable of displying speeds over 85 ( so metric readout is accurate ) - it just doesn't know how too.

ramicio

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Don't they still start blinking at their 85mph metric equivalent? They would be easier to replicate. From the few low-res and blurry pictures I found, they look to be just a bunch of 7 segment digits in a VFD display.