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im doing a t56 swap into my 85 camaro and was curious what i have to do to make the speedometer work properly. i know you can buy a autometer speedometer and hook it up but i was curious if i could just by a used electric speedometer from a 3rd gen and make it work with the t56 properly?
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__________________ Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate. — William of Ockham, from Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Roughly paraphrased into modern English, and applied to figuring out what's wrong with your car:
The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is probably the right one.
The Cable-X box costs about the same as the right housing; and just adds another layer of something to break. I see no benefit there. Others might, but I don't. Less stuff to go bad strikes me as a virtue.
I'd be interested in seeing the facts and details about this supposed other extension housing. I just got through doing this conversion in a cable speedo car about a year and a half ago, so I know what was out there at the time; but if someone has come out with something new, I'd like to know about it.
__________________ Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate. — William of Ockham, from Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Roughly paraphrased into modern English, and applied to figuring out what's wrong with your car:
The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is probably the right one.
The Firebirds switched in 85, and the Camaros switched in about 89 or 90.
It is not trivial to switch over, since the ECM runs the speedo in the electronic version.
__________________ Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate. — William of Ockham, from Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Roughly paraphrased into modern English, and applied to figuring out what's wrong with your car:
The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is probably the right one.
will someone please briefly explain what this means "It is not trivial to switch over, since the ECM runs the speedo in the electronic version."
thank you i just got a little lost and want to make sure i understand it properly.
Originally posted by n8sz28 will someone please briefly explain what this means "It is not trivial to switch over, since the ECM runs the speedo in the electronic version."
thank you i just got a little lost and want to make sure i understand it properly.
well I won't say what I am thinking but.........
no it is an easy swap. ecm control? with the later systems yes. MAF cars and TBI cars used a buffer box which split the speed signal to the cluster,ecm and cruise control.
if I were you I would get the dakota box, an electric speedo cluster and just wire it up
Rockland sells the housing, along with new shift rails, a shifter, a speedo drive gear, snap-rings, and seals for $685
Wow.... and I though the JTR thing was slightly $$$$$, at about HALF that..... too bad, because that's the PERFECT solution for our cars.
Incidentally, there is only one company that "makes" those, althought there might be numerous ones that SELL (distribute) them. That one maker is Tremec, who now owns the Borg-Warner name for manual transmissions.
As far as the electronic speedo thing, it wouldn't be too hard to try; just buy yourself a later-model cluster and buffer box and the Dakota box, and wire it up, and see. You wouldn't really even have to "install" it in the car until you got it to work.
__________________ Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate. — William of Ockham, from Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Roughly paraphrased into modern English, and applied to figuring out what's wrong with your car:
The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is probably the right one.
Last edited by sofakingdom; 01-31-2006 at 08:37 AM.
