???'s about gauges
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???'s about gauges i am swapping in a LS1 and a T56 into my 1966 el camino, i was wondering hoe do you guys with conversions get gauges other than the ones from the donor car to work? i have a set of autometer street rod old tyme white gauges with a mechanical speedo....what all do i need to do to get these working?
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I have the same Autometers with black face and white lettering.
I realise you have gone mechanical speedo but you can run the electronic speedo off the pcm if that helps.
The oil pressure gauge was plumbed into the oil filter adapter and the water temp into the other head from the factory temp sender.
Tach runs off of factory wire also but set the tach to 4cyl.
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Mal
I realise you have gone mechanical speedo but you can run the electronic speedo off the pcm if that helps.
The oil pressure gauge was plumbed into the oil filter adapter and the water temp into the other head from the factory temp sender.
Tach runs off of factory wire also but set the tach to 4cyl.
cheers
Mal
The mechanical speedo requires you to use the 'Abbott Cable-X' or something similar. Search here or Google for more info on it. (It's not really cheap though. It might be easier to just get an electronic speedo.)
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yeah i was going to get the electronic speedo, but they dont offer it in the line i bought.... how hard would it be to make the factory gauges work? like for a sleeper look
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Shouldn`t be too hard to make factory gauges work, put the oil press sender in on the fitting on the oil pan. you can either drill the passenger head bigger for the water temp or I am trying to have my sender turned down to the 12mm x 1.50 thread. I had my computer tuned by wait4meperformance.com and he reprogrammed my tach output to 8cyl so my factory tach will work. But you will still have to do something about a speedo, either abbott adapter for $300 or put electronic speedo guts behind you stock face.
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