Hello all,
I am looking at a 1985 digital dash cluster from a Corvette, and it seems like it will fit into a Camaro. The gauges are in the right place, and it is the same shape/size as a Camaro dash cluster.
Would the ECM freak on it, or would it simply not match the electronics present in the Maro, and not function?
I have searched the boards at length, found nada.
Has anyone tried this?
Thanks!

 

Picture so you can see what I mean...

 

I dunno but I would liek some feed back on this too, so back to the top it goes

 

Very interesting idea. Like to see it too.

 

yeah that would be cool!

 

BTW---I am new to the board, but I have been searching here for a long time. A lot of the advice given by the board regs has helped me several times, when the manuals were useless! Thanks to all!
I have been looking into this gauge conversion for a while, but don't have the cash to buy a cluster I can't use. If someone...anyone...has a cluster from an 80's Vette, would you mind turning it over, and see if the connectors are the same style as our Camaro ones? If they are, then I can make this work, and will post pics all day. If not, it might be too much time involved.
It is by far the coolest digital cluster I have seen that has a chance of working in a Camaro...

 

seeing as how the vette uses the same tpi computer, id believe its going to be cut and splice. get the harness that plugs into the vette cluster with about 6-8 inches of wire on it, then splice it in. your also going to need to mount it somehow because they are held up different. but you could get it to work.

 

The ECM has very little (if anything) to do with the dash, so the fact that the f-body and the Vette has the same computer doesn't mean a thing.

Considering the massive differences between GTAs with the digital dash and GTAs without the digital dash, I would expect the installation of that vette dash to be a MAJOR hassle.

For one, it's too tall to fit in the camaro dash area. You'll have to do major reconstruction to the dash to make it fit.

Secondly, the wiring will be a nightmare. You'll have to convert to an electrical speedo (VSS at the transmission), and splice all other sensor signals. I think that the Vette dash has a mirad of diagnostic information (similar to the GTA but more numerous) that will be inoperative unless you install the associated sensors & wiring.

And after all that, you'll have an unreliable, hard to read dash with a tach that responds too slowly to be of any use when it's most needed.

 

Yeah, somehow I knew it would be too much hassle...but I can dream...
The sensors I was expecting, but if the thing worked at all in the Camaro I would consider it a truimph. Would look sweet with smoked plexi...