ive read some threads about the gear selector/shift light and seen the video of it working and must say it looks great!! now i know that he built that one himself but is there a kit to buy or a thread on how to do this or something? im dying to put one in my camaro it just looks good to me.

 

does anyone know about this? Thanks

 

anyone?

 

I know which one youre talking about, theres a thread buried around here somwhere for it, a thorough search would probably dig it up...

 

ive done so much searching my brain hurts!! lol. and all im coming up with is people talking about it and wanting it but no info on how to do it or where to buy the kit?? i would love to buy one.

 

is there a kit to buy?

 

does anyone know of a kit i can buy to do this or something? ive searched everywhere and im missing something i guess? can u help please? ive found a couple threads on here talking about it but no info on where to get it or how to do it.

 

Less than a minute of serching and i found the guy that made it....shoot him a pm and ask him how he did it: 85_ZED28

 

bro thats what im saying ive done that already!! ive PM him and asked and he says he hasnt the time to make a thread to tell how. i ask him about maybe if theres a kit to buy and he still hasnet got back with me and that was over a week ago. i was hoping maybe someone else on here has done this or seen a kit u can buy for 5 speed cars? ive seen the digital gear indicator light for bikes but there are controlled electronically. like ive said ive searched all over these threads and still found nothing more than what u just found. so does anyone know of a kit? or where to start?

 

It wasnt a kit he bought...its something he made himself from a pile of parts and some electronic know-how. It sounds to me like he doesnt want everyone doing the same thing and having something he thought up and made for his car on every other 3rd gen. My suggestion would be to find someone local who knows electronics and talk to them about doing something similar.

 

yes i know he made it himself but i figured that maybe someone else makes this for any 5 speed car? ive seen the one for streetbikes but the plug into the wire harness. i didnt know if they made these for any other vechicle at all?

 

I doubt anyone makes anything plug and play like this for our cars. Like i said, if you seriously want this in your car, talk to an electronics guy. Its just a few parts, some know-how and a little work.

 

It really wouldn't be hard, you would have to set up a bracket system with 6 press switches. The easiest thing to do would be to wire each switch with 12V, and then the other side of each switch to a panel of lights behind a shadowed window with 1 2 3 4 5 R. On the other side of those lights, ground it out. Simplest thing to do really (i'm over simplifying the engineering of the brackets/switches), and I would also recommend maybe a 5A fuse, maybe 10A if it ever blows for no reason, the bulbs shouldn't take much.

And no, they don't make a kit for our cars, but if you have done the searching for it, then there is a possibility that there isn't a kit. I'm not sure.

What i'd like to do if I had the electrical know how, would be use a I believe LED screen, the calculator type screen with the single digit you can get at radio shack, program it to automatically be N if there is no signal, and then use the 6 press switches to do a 1 2 3 4 5 R. That I think would be cool, but of course i'd have to add a 6 :-D

 

thats some good info thanks!! i know they dont make them for our cars but what about other cars? or race cars? thanks a ton guys!!

 

Hi pate,

Sorry you didn't get my last PM response, I did reply on 03-13-2011... it read:


I would actually love to share this project with the 3rd gen crowd! Just need to find the time to do a proper write up.

 

awesome man!! i hope u can find the time. im dying to get this firured out lol.

 

Here's a quick summary of the project.

As far as the indicator goes:

Here is a picture of the plate and switches that are mounted to my hurst shifter:



Each of the 4 switches is an input to a PIC microcontroller. The PIC determines the stick location from the switches.

I'm using a seven segment LED display for the indicator. I made 7 outputs (abcdefg) on the PIC for each LED segment.

So when the stick is in first gear, switches 1 and 4 will be activated. The PIC microcontroller is programmed to determine that this condition is 1st gear, and turns on outputs b and c to display a "1".

If you're in third gear, only switch 4 is activated, and the PIC outputs a b c d g to display a "3".



Reverse will display a small "r" and I've left neutral blank.

That's the easy part. As far as the blinking shift light function, a 12v tach signal and some coding is used to determine the RPM. The display is flashed above a pre-determined RPM value.

I designed the circuit board traces in AutoCAD and etched the board at home:



I used MPLAB IDE to program the PIC:

http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...&part=SW007002

Again, there are no kits available to do this that I know of, but I hope this points you in the right direction.

Regards,

Colin