Can anyone running a carb setup with the msd box clue me in or give me a walkthrough on making my factory 145 formula cluster work with the 6010 box? I would like to retain all the stock gauges? Ive read the stickies but all that info if for the efi engine.Thanks,Dustin

 

By the way, The car is a 84 and I want to install my 88 gauge cluster from a past car. Also am I going to need the factory engine wiring harness.

 

buy adapter fittings from S&P for the oil pressure and coolant temp sensors. Then use stock senders. Plug the white tach wire from your factory wiring into the MSD tach output but remember you'll wrap that factory tach in nothing flat, doubt it will be accurate or fast enough to respond to engine rpm changes.

 

I was hoping to get away with the factory 8k tach. Ive also been thinking of adding aftermarket gauges and just tossing the factory ones.

 

it doesn't keep up on some tpi engines, these motors rev even faster, just something to think about

 

I think I am going to make a panel to replace the factory gauges. Is there a listing of which wire goes to what behind the dash? I also need to swap out the manual speedo for a electric one since im using a new 4l80e.

 

any chiltons or haynes manual would have that schematic, probably could google search it as well.

Factory dash, when I was making a wiring mess


Well you're really feeling ambitious then you can knock out something like this



All behind the factory clear plastic which everyone else just removes in their builds, took a lot longer this way but looks OEM

 

Did you just put the 4th gen dash in and wire all your gauges into the factory harness?Did you make the plate to mount the gagues or did you buy it?

 

Just bought some aluminum sheetmetal and got to cutting. I have a ton of hours into the 4th gen cluster, the 3rd gen one was super easy to make in comparison. I used some of the factory harness pinouts, but not many.

 

Im going to modify the stock dash to accept the new gauges. God there expensive. If I run all new wires for the gauges then do I need any of the wires behind the dash? Who makes the best looking cheap gauges?