Adding cruise control?
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Car: 1987 Firebird Formula
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Adding cruise control?
Been searching on here for a little while, I can’t seem to find where this has been done. Am I missing a write up somewhere? I have an 87 formula I swapped in a column from a donor car that has cruise. What else do I need to make it work? All the tpi is still intact on the car.
Last edited by scarbucket; Sep 13, 2021 at 08:23 PM.
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Car: 1987 Firebird Formula
Engine: 355
Transmission: Borg Warner 5 spd
Axle/Gears: 3:43
Re: Adding cruise control?
Thanks in advance
Last edited by scarbucket; Sep 13, 2021 at 08:24 PM. Reason: Posted by mistake
Re: Adding cruise control?
You need the brain box that mounts under the passenger's dash, the harness from the brain to below the steering column, the harness from below the column to the servo, the servo, the servo cable, the brake light switch and vacuum valve at the pedals, and the cruise turn signal stalk. It all plugs right in. Donor parts need to be from approximately the same year car.
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Car: Non F-body :(
Engine: Pontiac 301
Transmission: TH350
Re: Adding cruise control?
A nice upgrade that declutters the engine compartment a little is going with an electronic cruise control rather than vaccum.
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Car: Resto-Mod 1987 IROC-Z Clone
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Axle/Gears: Custom 12 bolt (4.10:1)
Re: Adding cruise control?
Damn!
Do you know how many people ripped-out, all of the Cruse-Control System Parts from there Third-Gens to clean up the Engine Bay?
LOL! There has to be tons of those Parts in the Junk-Yards.
Do you know how many people ripped-out, all of the Cruse-Control System Parts from there Third-Gens to clean up the Engine Bay?
LOL! There has to be tons of those Parts in the Junk-Yards.
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Joined: May 2013
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From: Illinois
Car: 1987 Firebird Formula
Engine: 355
Transmission: Borg Warner 5 spd
Axle/Gears: 3:43
Re: Adding cruise control?
Will an 89 iroc setup be close enough to work with my 87? Can get a whole setup from an 89 for a good price.
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Car: 1989-92 FORMULA350 305 92 Hawkclone
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Re: Adding cruise control?
It blows me away the amount of "things" people delete on these cars then wonder why they suck or abandon the project.
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Re: Adding cruise control?
Don't know how well it works, but Dakota Digital has an after-market cruise control system for I think around $350...
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