well back in the summer i did a 350 swap on my v6 camaro... i went the easy route with an HEI dist and a holley carb (scrapped ecm) needless to say i am gaugeless (oter than the edition of some crappo sunpro mechanicals.......I was thinking of doing a custom guage cluster but didnt want to spend an arm and a leg..........Anybody know where i can get a matching set of gauges pretty cheap? you know the basics Tach, Speedo, Volts, oil, temp, and fuel lvl

Any info greatly appreciated

 

OK, there's three harnesses under the hood: lights, accessory, and ecm. I take it you scrapped more than just the ecm harness?

 

i didnt scrap anything.....it was like that when i bought it...... The accessory harness is beside the a/c box/blower motor?

 

The ecm harness comes out the pass side kick panel area, up the backside of the fenderwell and then goes to all of the computer related sensors. The accessory and light harnesses both connect to the firewall near the brake booster. There is two halves to the harness side of the connector, one for lights, one for accessory. The accessory harness will have the connectors for starter, dist tach/batt, AC, oil pressure sending unit, coolant temp sending unit and a coupler other things. It sounds like you need an accessory harness and related sending units. Does your gas gauge work?

 

i really dont know.....its a project car and ive never filled it up.......do you know if a stock V6 tach will work on a v8?

 

It won't read right with the v8, so it will need swapped or replaced with aftermarket.

 

custom guages cost out the a$$, is there any way i could do a cluster swap to make it work?

 

'82-'89 you just unscrew the gauge trim, unscrew the v6 tach and reassemble with a v8 tach.

 

Was going to say that too. Your local junk yard may have an 82-89 maro with gauges still intact for fairly cheap.

 

got a little nervous there reading the last few posts,
I have an 84 that I'm saving up to have a 350 put in.

I Just got done putting in a 92 dash and cluster into it, and then I saw that the gauges might not work after the engine swap I about threw up

Glad to know that they can still work after doing the engine swap.. (lol)

 

well i went to the shop that i bought the rolling shell from.....just so happens that they still had the wires that got cut out.........what are the odds of that happening.....all i have to do now is reconnect the wires and do the tach swap

 

so a tach from a 89 V8 rs car will read right? correct?

 

Provided the tach is in good working order, yes.

 

good cuase i just bought one