With a newly rebuilt engine, trans, and rear end, I figured I'd spiff up my interior. I wanted to reset the mileage back to zero as well, to track the mileage on my new drivtrain....

I made the panel from some sheet aluminum. The gauges are Nordskog, I bought them from Summit... They make a drop in digital kit for our cars, but it doesn't have the gauges I wanted. It took me quite some time to build a wiring harness that I was comfortable with, but I'm pretty happy with what I wound up with...

 

That looks really cool! I wouldn't mind getting their 90-92 Camaro gauges but I don't like that I'd have to cut up the factory harness to make them work. For $500 you'd think they could get their hands on some stock 110 gauges and mount the setup in there so it's plug-n-play.

 

I didn't cut much of anyting in the factory harness... I etched some double sided circuit board material to make edge cards that fit into the factory harness slots. Then I soldered wires onto the other side of my homemade edge cards. If I need to pull the gauge panel oout, I simple disconnect the edge cards from the stock harness.

I had to run some new wires, as the digital speedo needs the two wire pulse system in lieu of the speedo cable... I also ran a sensor and wiring for trans temp...

Hardest part was using my stupid haney manual for the wiring schematic, it was awful...

 

That a Z24 steering wheel? Looks pretty hot, like its supposed to be there almost..

Like the guages too, looks very slick in the dark there.

 

Thanks!

The steering wheel in a Cavalier that was smashed in the boneyard....
I couldn't find a decent looking original steering wheel to replace my very worn original wheel, and i hate most aftermarket wheels, so this was the next best thing...

I do have a Z24 wheel, but it's 15" diameter, it looks too big and akward, the cavalier wheel was only 14" same as the original...

Ck76239

 

I ran t-taps off the appropriate wires on the back side of the stock connectors, those wires run to a microprocessor box for my Dakota Digital gauge panel. If I were to put a stock panel back in, the connectors are still in place and functional. It cost a bit more than $500, but had to be made on site from my original gauge panel. Here's a close up installed in my 92 RS.

 

I'm also thinking of getting a digital setup so the speedo dosen't need the cable? It just needs two wires to hook it up to work?

 

all of these digital dashes look sick omg im so jealous

 

They come with their own speed sender (at least the Dakota Digital does) which converts cable to electronic, it plugs in the tranny where the cable would go. I didn't need to use it because my speedo was electronic in the first place and gets its signal from the ECM.

 

That is sick!!

 

Not saying that these look bad or anything, because they dont....but I still think the GTA Digital Dash takes the cake

The only thing I dont like about the dashed above is that at night ALL I see are numbers, no nice lit up background behind them...

 

you are breaking the speed limit sir !!!!!!!!!!

 

It only looks that way. I took the picture while the car was on the rollers during a recent dyno test, looks better than 00 while at idle. That was all the stock V6 could do on that machine!! I hit the programmed speed limiter at 108 on a previous test on a different machine.

Not to hijack the thread, but ck76239 has a great looking setup too. Had I known about Nordskog before I got this setup, I might have gone that way. I like the circular bar graph with the yellow and red bands better than Dakota Digital's linear graph across the top. Looks great

 

still looks sick tho brother!

 

Thanks Al, I was just thinking that about yours by the way... Had I known Dakota made a setup, I might have gone that route, because it looks nice!

ck76239

 

Mine was a custom job because Dakota Digital doesn't stock the 91-92 style for the Camaro like they do the 82-90. Had to send in a complete panel for them to convert. Had I gone with Nordskog, they make a direct fit for the 91-92. I'm thinking about the same for my 89 also, but not until I get it a little more restored/modified.