New project on my 82 digital gauges

[JeffP1167]

Originally made buy a company called 2001 technologies, it is a very old kit however when I bought it for 50.00 off ebay it was brand new and never installed. Tonight I hooked it up to my 90 vettes battery and the sucker works. I even hooked up the vss sensor and spun it with a drill and the speed came to life.

It somewhat resembles a nordskog system however it retains my original speedo and trip odometer so I can also use my original vss for the ecm.

It has to be a very old system since the red speed warning lights start to illuminate at 55mph. It has a clock which I would rather have then iol temperature anyways.

However given the choice between 800-1000 for a digital cluster I definitely would have just stayed with the stock gauges. To me they just are not worth that kind of money but for 50.00 bucks I will give them a shot.



I am not sure why the oil pressure reads " E E " ... the fuel says " -3 " .... H2o "019" anyone have a idea?



This is simulated by a drill spinning the vss sensor ... this is not the car doing this speed! .. I am also unsure of the limits of the speedometer probably 199 who knows but I'm not going to drive a c3 over 80 hahaha especially this one!

 

[JeffP1167]

Here it is with the black plexiglass cover

Kinda blury cause wasn't focused good, but I like the looks and for 50.00 bucks who can complain.

 

[JeffP1167]

Here it is with my 90 vette idling and providing a tach feed and the drill powering the speedo, for the longest time was going to throw it all in the trash cause couldn't get it to work.

 

[JeffP1167]

here is how they look like in the cluster. First picture is at night with flash turned on. Rest are in cluster no flash, you can see the original mechanical odometer and trip odometer are very visible. I am however going to order new bezels and stuff and see if the lenses are supposed to be left in place. Also without the original housing for the gauges in the center of the dash I will have to improvise to retain the check engine, low fuel and other two warning light.



this is at night they have excellent visiblity behind the smoked plexiglass



I'm not sure why the red light illuminates around the gauges and the speedo doesn't. I dont have instructions for this so a lot is guess work.

 

[JeffP1167]

Even in the sunlight they are still fairly easy to see

 

[JeffP1167]

When these wires are touched to the a-arm on my 90 vette here are the results.

downside is if I run a wire from my 90 to the green wire the display reads
"- -" could these gauges require different sending units to function correctly?

Grey wire causes fuel level to rise, must be in gallons.



brown wire makes oil pressure climb, might have to replace it's LCD's though since number segments don't light up.

Green wire temperature jumps.



the voltage gauge goes to 14.0 while my vette is running though

 

[JeffP1167]

Here they are semi bolted into my dashpad

 

[JeffP1167]

here is how the blacked out clusters look. Yes I know the dash is in bad shape but I will be ordering a new dash pad and instrument bezels. I will be doing the interior in 82 grey so new bezels and the blacked out gauges should look nice.

 

[SCCA VETTE]

I would say for 50 bucks you did damn good

 

[JeffP1167]

I would say for 50 bucks you did damn good

I found some of the original pieces of the installation manual. Apparently when they were new they costed 480.00. I think there are about 9 wires you have to hook up to make it all work. It almost looks like the VSS sensor is the in cable design maybe originally hooked in the area of the transducer which I don't see on my 82.

The manual also states all original sending units are used. I will take the center gauges to a electronics place and see if the oil pressure LCD numbers can be replaced but that appears to be all that is wrong with it.

Funny my 90 vettes tach shows a idle speed of 1500rpm yet it's C68 displays indicate a rpm 825. This tach shows 800rpm ....

This 82 is so moded anyways originality wise nothing is hurt by putting them in the car.

 

[DeeVeeEight]

Regarding your oil gauge reading.... All of your gauges require specific sending units, matched to the digital gauges. If they are not available you may be able to get away with installing a resistor in line with a non-matched sending unit to try and get the gauge to read correctly. A variable resistor would literally allow you to dial in the resistance which you could then measure with an ohm meter and install the proper fixed value resistor.

They look a lot like my old Nordskog gauges!

 

[JeffP1167]

Regarding your oil gauge reading.... All of your gauges require specific sending units, matched to the digital gauges. If they are not available you may be able to get away with installing a resistor in line with a non-matched sending unit to try and get the gauge to read correctly. A variable resistor would literally allow you to dial in the resistance which you could then measure with an ohm meter and install the proper fixed value resistor.

They look a lot like my old Nordskog gauges!

The instructions that came with them, says to use stock sending units.

 

[DeeVeeEight]

Regarding your oil gauge reading.... All of your gauges require specific sending units, matched to the digital gauges. If they are not available you may be able to get away with installing a resistor in line with a non-matched sending unit to try and get the gauge to read correctly. A variable resistor would literally allow you to dial in the resistance which you could then measure with an ohm meter and install the proper fixed value resistor.

They look a lot like my old Nordskog gauges!

The instructions that came with them, says to use stock sending units.

I hope it works for you!