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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:06 PM
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what year is this instrument panel from?

I am figuring it is from 86-89 camaros with the 305 or 350 tpi?

I got this as a backup when I bought my Z28 but mine has the 85 mph speedo and 5k redline.

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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:31 PM
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The instrument cluster you have there appears to be out of a 88 IROC with either the TBI or TPI 305 as it has the 115 mph speedometer. The thing that is puzzling me is that the tach has a 6000 rpm redline instead of 5000 or 5500 which is most common. I'm not sure but this could be out of a 1LE or B4C optioned car making it pretty cool and rare! Maybe someone else can give you more info!

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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:35 PM
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The instrument cluster you have there appears to be out of a 88 IROC with either the TBI or TPI 305 as it has the 115 mph speedometer. The thing that is puzzling me is that the tach has a 6000 rpm redline instead of 5000 or 5500 which is most common. I'm not sure but this could be out of a 1LE or B4C optioned car making it pretty cool and rare! Maybe someone else can give you more info!

Hope that helps.
Thanks for the info.

I am almost sure it is not from a B4C due to the B4C's had the yellow lettering.

I am guessing it is an 87-89 350 tpi car.

Anyone else know???
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:41 PM
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:47 PM
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

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6k tach = V6

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So basically it is from a v6 camaro from 86-89?
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 12:51 PM
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The only reason I don't think it's out of a 5.7 is because of the 115mph top speed. I have to admit that I am not familiar with the yellow lettering on pre 90's camaro's/B4C's, can you explain, I'm interested!
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Im almost pretty sure its from a 88-89 v6 coupe, cause the v6 would red line alot higher than the v8.
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Old Sep 15, 2010 | 02:14 PM
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Thanks everyone.

It will be for sale in the classifieds.
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Old Sep 21, 2010 | 12:13 PM
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

Yeah, V6 for sure...I'm unaware of any pre-LS1 F-Body V8s (with the exception of the 69 Z28) that revved to 6,000 rpm.
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Old Sep 21, 2010 | 01:19 PM
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My guess goes to 89 V6 car. From what I can see, the oil pressure gauge is part of the tach face and not a separate piece, and 89 was the only year in which that was like that. On all older setups, the oil pressure face was a separate piece of metal from the tach face.
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

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My guess goes to 89 V6 car. From what I can see, the oil pressure gauge is part of the tach face and not a separate piece, and 89 was the only year in which that was like that. On all older setups, the oil pressure face was a separate piece of metal from the tach face.
Now you guys have got me looking at the speedometers on my cars. I hadn't noticed what you said about the oil pressure gauge being separate prior to 1989. I know that all my gauges are original. Here is what I found. My 1989 Iroc convertible with the LB9/auto/ 2.73 gears has a 115 MPH speedo and a oil pressure gauge that is part of the 5000 red line tach face. My 1988 Iroc convertible with the LB9/auto/G92 3.23 gears has a 145MPH speedo and also has the oil pressure gauge as part of the 5000 red line tach face. It was built in late June of 1988 so it must have got the same ones as the 1989 with the oil gauge as part of the tach face. So the earlier 1988 cars must have had the separate oil gauges on the tach face as you said.
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85-86 have tapered needles... The stepped needles were 87-up. Since it's got higher then a 85mph speedometer it's probably from a later car, but that's just a guess.
I have a 1985 Z28 and a 1985 IrocZ28 both have LB9/Auto and original 85 MPH speedometers. The tachs in both redline at 5500, which I think was only on 1985 LB9 setups. The needles on all the gauges are stepped and not tapered as noted above. If the info is correct, the 85MPH/5500Redline tachs have different stepped needles than other 85-86 gauge clusters with tapered needles. Can anyone else check to confirm this?
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Originally Posted by yo soy el warg
I have a 1985 Z28 and a 1985 IrocZ28 both have LB9/Auto and original 85 MPH speedometers. The tachs in both redline at 5500, which I think was only on 1985 LB9 setups. The needles on all the gauges are stepped and not tapered as noted above. If the info is correct, the 85MPH/5500Redline tachs have different stepped needles than other 85-86 gauge clusters with tapered needles. Can anyone else check to confirm this?
ALL of my '85-'86 cars have stepped needles, as well as all of my clusters that are '85-'89. All my earlier clusters have tapered needles, as well as my 140mph "Z28" speedo.
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88 camaro v6
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

Originally Posted by MI ROC-Z
The instrument cluster you have there appears to be out of a 88 IROC with either the TBI or TPI 305 as it has the 115 mph speedometer.
Hope that helps.
I have an original 88 Iroc convertible with the LB9/Auto/G92 and it came stock with the 145MPH speedo/5000 redline tach/and the oil guage is part of the tach face not a separate gauge.
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Thanks for all the input.

I did not think this cluster would create this much talk.

Thanks to all of you!!!
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

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I have an original 88 Iroc convertible with the LB9/Auto/G92 and it came stock with the 145MPH speedo/5000 redline tach/and the oil guage is part of the tach face not a separate gauge.
That's weird because I had an '89 that was LB9/5peed/non-G92, it had the 115mph speedo with the 5500 redline tach. G92 must have got you the 145mph, while the 5speed must have got the 5500 redline. Or maybe it was just a difference between the '88 and '89 model years.
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have you seen a 350 iroc with anything other than a 145mph speedo im looking at one with an 85 if i saw correctly or a 115 trying to figure out if its a real iroc everything pointed to real till i saw the gauge cluster either it was swapped to this or he or the previous owner did a good job of faking i have an 88 with the 305 already and its got the 115
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yeah this is an 88 im hoping someone just had to switch out the old one and the 85mph was the only thing they had or could get at the time 1G1FP2184JL131902 is the vin
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thanks for the info once i get the car ill get pics up of this new one and my other 88
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Re: what year is this instrument panel from?

As was mentioned in your other post, the car's cluster was probably swapped out. The car is a 350 and should have the 145. Makes perfect sense.
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