I have an 83 firebird w/cable driven gauges , my question is how hard would it be to convert to electric gauges ?

 

Having had to do this on my car, it can be hard or easy.

here is how i did it, I took the entire dash setup from a later firebird and swapped the whole dash unit. To get the RPM's and MPH working you will need an electric sending unit from a later transmission 86 and newer IIRC. I then swapped the dash in and used a later wiring harness that reads the VSS. It can be a pain being 83 odds are you are carbed. I do believe someone wrote a tech article on how to do this.

The hard way (and long way I think)
swap the dash cluster and do a hell of alot of wiring. thats it as simple as you can get it.

 

I did this for my 84 and also put a useful web page together back then http://la.rsson.com/speedo/speedo.html

If you need some parts (yellow buffer etc) let me know as I still have a couple of them e-mail me jan_l@rsson.com

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks alot, it doesn't seem too hard to do .
So I'll give it a shot . Thanks again and if I run into any problems I'll be writing back .