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Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

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Old Oct 22, 2021 | 04:01 PM
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Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

I have a 1991 Formula and would like to see if I can fit a Holley 7" or 6.86" or 12.3" digital dash in to go with the Terminator X engine management system and LS3 swap I'm planning. Is there any info on people that have done this successfully integrating it into the Original Dash?
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Old Oct 27, 2021 | 09:56 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

I fit a 3.5" LCD screen in the cluster

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Old Oct 28, 2021 | 08:27 AM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

On youtube user BadLuckGarage has fit the 7" in his camaro I believe.
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Old Mar 27, 2022 | 01:47 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

12” pro dash should be easy. Cut a rectangle hole for the digital dash inset in the stock cluster. Then slap a 1/8” abs sheet on top and cut the hood and trim for a tight fit around the digital dash. If you get some kind of bezel it could look really clean. With the stock gauges removed you have like 3” to play with behind it of open space. I did something similar with the speed hut gauges and it looks factory minus the newer nicer gauges.
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Old Mar 28, 2022 | 01:22 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

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I did something similar with the speed hut gauges and it looks factory minus the newer nicer gauges.
Do you have a write-up on that I can see?
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Old Mar 28, 2022 | 02:53 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

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Do you have a write-up on that I can see?
not really I guess the hump for the steering wheel will be an issue but you could offset it to the pass side.



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Old Mar 28, 2022 | 04:24 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

Are you able to put the stock bezel over the top or is that the finished product? My ears perked up when you said it looked like stock.
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Old Mar 28, 2022 | 06:57 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

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Are you able to put the stock bezel over the top or is that the finished product? My ears perked up when you said it looked like stock.
no, that’s the finished product. With mine I meant you can’t tell it’s not stock if you don’t know what the stock gauges look like but its not a crazy layout where things look out of place.

if you want what I think you mean ( and u got the time) there is a guy who lays the digital screen behind the stock bezel and then designs a custom layout in photoshop and imports the design into the digital dash and then builds gauges on the dash to match photoshop layout and it looks awesome.

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Old Mar 31, 2022 | 06:06 PM
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Re: Anyone fit a Holley Digital dash in their Firebird?

The gauge pod has an internal cavity about 5" tall and only about 3.5" tall directly above the steering column. Best to pull your gauge pod and measure things out.
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