Anyone do gauge conversions?
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Anyone do gauge conversions? Is there someone out there who does reasonable priced gauge conversions for speedometers to convert to electric vss?
I would really like a working speedometer again but hear nothing but bad things about that expensive line x box. It seems like an *** backwards way to go about it since it's just another mechanical part to fail.
Be different if it was under $200, but $300 up seems rediculous
I would really like a working speedometer again but hear nothing but bad things about that expensive line x box. It seems like an *** backwards way to go about it since it's just another mechanical part to fail.
Be different if it was under $200, but $300 up seems rediculous
Ive used Clock Doc Gauge Works in Monteagle, TN 931-924-8888. When I worked at Year One I used him to modlify all of the gauges in our HHR project and to convert a few of the Muscle Car tachs and speedometers in our muscle cars.
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Try Red Line Gauge Works I used them for converting two tachs and one clock to quartz movement. They do good work and are fast and "reasonable".
www.redlinegaugeworks.com/
www.redlinegaugeworks.com/
im going to be using the cable x box in my 65 chevelle ls2 turbo.. its brand new and the new model for what abbott says.. there are nomore problems with them.. but who knows. i found it on ebay for 249.95$ brand new. there is a guy that sells them on there he might have more. his name on ebay is tachman1
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Dakota digital Dash here: the best investment made.......
The LS2/4L65E pullout I bought had Kook headers on it...... What fuggn luck, I put em on craigslist, sold em in less than 8 hrs for $650 and took that money and purchased the Dakota Dash straight from Dakota Digital.......
I love it man, very easy to hook up..... easier than my old mechanical gauages....Ha Ha.....
A lot of guys use the Autometers but **** they are damn near the same price as the Dakota once you buy 5-7 gauges..... The Dakota Dash is like 6-7 gauges with tons of extra features.... You can actually test and check your Ohms on your fuel sender, oil, water, etc..... Just cool to have.... glad I did it....
If you buy the cable box, you might well go to the dakota, your almost there in price.......
Its like the 24x reluctor conversion boxes.... they are cool but not worth the money too me....and people found out they had problems....
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Verdad Gallardo i was looking at the dakota gauges but i have custom autometer gauges that have overlays on them that i have never seen anyone else with and im not sure i like the dakota digital for my setup in my car..
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Bottomline all of this stuff is not cheap regardless of what route you take.. ha ha
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the pcm still needs a signal, IIRC they are using an adapter housing that has both VSS and mechanical and it is $500...at that point I would rather sell my stock SS gauges, SS dash and cut up a malibu dash for the Autometer gauges.
I don't really want aftermarket guages, especially digital because a digitial tach is just silly to me and occassionally I do manually shift when I'm doing backroad runs
If your car is a true SS, I'd keep the factory guages if I were you. The Cable-X is kinda spendy, but they work good, I have had one on my car for almost 10 years, and it has over 100k on it, and it still works. Just my 2 cents...
I got another question kinda related to this subject;
does anyone know of a company that can convert an exsiting guage luster to accept ls1 style signals?
just like putting an ls1 in a late model mustang and having the stock mustang guages work,,,, or having a CAN-BUS cluster converted to accept regular "LS1" signals.
does anyone know of a company that can convert an exsiting guage luster to accept ls1 style signals?
just like putting an ls1 in a late model mustang and having the stock mustang guages work,,,, or having a CAN-BUS cluster converted to accept regular "LS1" signals.
