I found a 85 Sport (? 5.0 Black Trim, assuming sport from there) being parted that has a full digital dash. From what I gather using the search here this dash fit into my 88 (digital Speedo only that ya can’t read) BUT would require some wiring adapting and worse than that changing a mess of sensors. (However the car probably has all the sensors, appeared pretty complete still.
Not so sure I’m willing to go through all that.
Am I correct about what it would take to swap this with mine?
If it's an '85 it ain't a Sport (Sport didn't start until '87) but the disco dash was available in any base, elan or Fila 85-88 Bird.
The base digital to full digital is probably one of the more difficult swaps. You'll need the oil and water senders off the donor car, plus a full digital fuel sender (if you have an 87-88 the 85-86 will not work). Of course you'll also have to re-pin your existing connectors and add a few circuits (tach and fuel flow to name two).
I'd recommend going with the full buttstuffogue swap, myself - the only sensor that would require changing would be the oil pressure, and that would require changing no matter what cluster you swap in.
I have buttstuffog.I love it except for one thing,95mph just isn't enough.I may swap in a 140 Stang gauge.
I don't have that 95MPH problem. Canadian cars had 200 km/hr (120 MPH) speedos :hick: