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Originally Posted by jimmy-ny
Bart,
Perhaps I missed this. But are you going to install the gauge cluster from an LSx donor car into the tempest dash? Just curious how that works. Coming from having NO CLUE here and love this thread. Not sure what Andrew did either; I'm sure he has the answer already.
I was out in the garage a few days ago and just measuring "stuff" from my '00 Z-28 to my Custom S. Your information here is incredibly valuable. I know there's a strong bias here regarding motors, but this swap is exactly what I'd like to do with mine. Just measuring everything on the Z-28 has me very interested on a donor car swap attempt since even down to the weight the cars are "close" 3400(Custom S) vs 3308 ('00 Z-28) lbs.
Can't wait to see more!
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Jimmy,
The gauges are one thing I haven't thought much about to be quite honest. I'll admit that I really don't know much about modern automotive electronics and how much I'll need to make everything come together. Perhaps Andrew or someone else with experience here can offer some information or insight on this.
I'd prefer to keep my dash as stock-looking as possible, and just hang whatever I need to add under the dash. Not sure if that's going to be possible yet, I'm pretty much just learning as I go here like many of the readers of this thread.
I want the modern drivetrain and electronic overdrive automatic trans along with A/C and cruise control, but I don't want to 'modernize' the look of the dash or controls any more than necessary.
I do have a new Autometer mechanical trans temp gauge I'm going to install, and the car already has a mechanical water temp and oil pressure gauge under the dash. I'll add a new Autometer tach as well to the steering column. But again, I'm not sure what other electronic gauging if any will required to allow everything to work together.
I guess I'll be better able to figure out what I need as soon as my wiring harness and controllers arrive from Speartech. Probably a quick call to John at Speartech will answer a lot of my questions pretty quickly, I'll do that after my controller/harness package arrives in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying the thread.
Bart