ok well my car has the base model gauges...some of you might know the ones i mean

the 2 bigs ones are the speedo and the other one is just my gas tank
then the 3 little ones are just red lights...
i would like to change it to the Z ones..the ones with the speedo,tach,oil,gas,battery

besides just taking the old ones out and putting the new ones in..what else is there..like wiring? i heard you need sensors for stuff

 

thats a sweet avatar dude!

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/gauges.shtml

JamesC

 

thanks


well ive been lookin on ebay and i found one but its more for a mph..im in canada so i need kph...i know i still could just read the smaller ones i dont care about that...but im just curious if the needle will still work the same..like if im drivin going 50 khm will it still come up the same on the new one? just incase the numbers are spread out alil different i mean

 

Check the speedo face (about halfway down) in the following link and you see that both mph and kph are marked. By the way, perhaps you should hit the bone yards in Canada. I actually shipped a 240 kph up there once. Perhaps you could locate one.

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=249244

JamesC

 

ya maybe i should....just curious on your speedo it tells all the kilometers/miles you drove on..but is that an easy peice to remove?

 

Not bad at all especially if you practice on an old speedo first.

JamesC

 

well i tryed the wreckers and lucked out..picked one up...and it looks pretty damn easy to do so far..im gonna keep my old speedo i think..just easier cause then i dont need to worry about puttin my km's meter in that one....just need to get these sensors

 

just curious can the white plugs behind the cluster work in my new gauges or should i go get the ones outta that other car...

im talking about the white ones that plug into the curcuit board

 

I thought you might post this soon enough Couldnt you just goto the junkyard, get a whole cluster, and pop it in? should it be all the same with that plastic wiring in the back??

dunno, just a sugestion?

good luck dood

 

are you saying i should or repeating me?


cause i did get the hole cluster..white surround and all..but the plugs with all the wiring on it is still at the junk yard...so im askin will there be a difference between my base model plug wires and the z28 ones i got

 

crap dude, I guess i didnt read everything through. i was just wondering.....

You must have sensors in there already right..? Im not to farmiliar with your type of gauges. The only problem I can see you having is for the tach....Is that what you mean by a sensor? Cause then I have no clue. But all the others should just be like....plug in right? Or are your gauges TOTALY different?

now im confused

EDIT: now i remember what you mean by the plugs at the back, I dont know, but would it be bad to just try it? or is that risking it? But yeah, how are you going to get around the tach?

 

well i read the link that james c posted but afew things they dont say....suposity the tach is already wired up i just need to plug it in.....and ya i think i may just get the plugs tomorrow and try anyways

well from what its say when you switch from the idiot lights to the needles gauges for the volts,temp,and oil you need to get a new oil pressure unit and water temperature unit..sorry i kept saying sensors