Any help with wireing and or videos?
http://www.coolcats.net/
That page should have the info you need. You'll have to change some sending units, and more, also, not sure if the tach is set up for anything other than a 4 cyl. engine. I really can't say one way or another on that.
Yup, specifically this link
http://www.coolcats.net/general/cluster.html
From what I remember, I beleive the base to buttstuffog is the easiest swap. Let us know how it goes. If you have any questions or hit a snag let us know. Lots of people way smarter then me on here.
I'm still waiting for a base to full electronic swap with milage change... ;)
The tachs are engine specific but It's only necessary to change one resistor to re-cal the half motor tach for V8 usage...
Note this applies to '87(maybe)& '88, AFAIK earlier units cannot be recalibrated...
That would be nice!, I've been avoiding doing mine.
Thanks guys I will let you know how it goes.
What part of Washington you from??
I got all the wires lengthened and match. Everything seems to work except for the alternator gauge and the tach the alternator signal wire seems different on the base that the turbo cluster . I'm stuck.
The alt meter is actually a pretty useless amp guage. Essentially a shunt which all the current for the entire car has to run through in order to get a not very accurate reading
Jcassity I believe has a write up on how to modify it into a much more use able volts guage.
The tach wire will have to be spliced into the coil wire, shouldn't take much to figure out there. It will read too high if it is a 4 hanger cluster, but adding a resistor or two should also straighten that out pretty easily.
The alt meter is actually a pretty useless amp guage. Essentially a shunt which all the current for the entire car has to run through in order to get a not very accurate reading
Jcassity I believe has a write up on how to modify it into a much more use able volts guage.
The tach wire will have to be spliced into the coil wire, shouldn't take much to figure out there. It will read too high if it is a 4 hanger cluster, but adding a resistor or two should also straighten that out pretty easily.
Here is the tach "conversion"http://www.coolcats.net/modifying/4to8tach.html
Run the wire for the coil first and see if it moves before worrying any about calibration.
Yeah you can forget the ammeter, they won't work anyway because the internal magnet around the movement has been dead in all but one I've seen... I did "recharge" the magnet on one and it worked, for about a week, POS gauge...