I had never seen this done before, great idea!

 

What are we looking at?

 

yea, what are we looking at? the only thing i see out of place is the red thing on the fog light switch

 

or the camaro speedo

 

i would say definitely the Camaro 145 speedo...pretty spiffy, but i still would rather see a newer Firebird gauge set swapped in because it looks a LOT cleaner and matches the whole Pontiac theme...but this is different, and a lot easier, lol...

Josh

 

Well the dude that previously owned mine removed the plastic "lenses" covering the gauges. Now seeing as I am a newbie here, it is one piece all across or are they separate for each cutout? I'm thinking that if I can't find an original ingood condition that I could fabricate my own from pieces out of any flat gauge cover? What do you guys think?

 

well, IIRC, the lenses are all one big piece...they have special holes to put screws through and to slide onto pegs molded into the gauge cluster...so a flat piece wouldnt fit right...you should be able to get one at any local JY for a little bit of nothing...

Josh

 

Perhaps, but this requires zero rewiring/headaches!

 

 

exactly, you are correct...that is why i said it is easier...it is actually pretty cool exactly how interchangeable our cars ACTUALLY are....

Josh

 

I hope to get there this weekend....
I'd probably have better luck with one from a donor than making my own anyways....
Thanks for the info, and special thanks to deadbird for the pics....

 

I still like the grid style speedo.
Where did they get that bucket!! I gotta have one for my front seat!!!

 

This is a great trick for owners of early Firebirds (like me). All the early cars had mechanical speedos. GM only made 85mph mechanical speedos for Firebirds. It wasn't until they switched to electronic speedos that the 140mph units were available. But Camaros had 140mph mechanical speedos. I never thought a Camaro speedo would fit in the Firebird cluster like that. I assume the tach will fit as well?

Has anyone on here done this, and is is a straightforward swap? I'd probably swap the tach too as I still have a V6 tach in my cluster.

 

Interesting... we could probably do that to the 85... in fact I think in that first pic that IS an 85...

 

Question:
Can you swap the needle from the Firebird speedo to the Camaro speedo? I think it would help in attempting to unify the dash after the conversion.