Thread: bone yard gauges

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Maybe we are getting somewhere now! Thanks, especially enjenjo, and others, let's keep this going. Of course I like the Auburn dash or engine-turned '32 Ford cluster, but when a junkyard cluster can be had for roughly $20 it is worth documenting here on this forum what clusters to look for. Streets, suppose we specified the main application would be instruments for a SBC 350, that would cover a lot of cases, mine included. The gauges that depend on computer interfacing will need A/D converters I guess as was mentioned, but maybe the simple answer is '80s technology where it is a GM cluster adapted to GM sensors. Then there are simpler cases. On my '98 Pontiac Sunfire the dash has only fuel and temp gauges in addition to a neat combination of Speedo and Tach, that would be enough for my roadster and maybe the oil pressure and voltage can be handled by idiot lights without gauges. Probably GM:GM or Ford:Ford and I recall some of the Chrysler Lebarons had a sport option with a tach in the cluster which might work for Mopar:Mopar. Since the Pontiac clusters are back-lit (usually in orange!) which I find attractive, let me ask emenjo what it would take to adapt a Sunfire cluster to a SBC, maybe you young guys have the knowhow I need? The Sunfire dash is a case of a 4 cyl setup that would need a modification of the pulse train for a V8.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder