(Fwd) Cheap Speedo

[steve ravet]

> It would have entailed replacing the output shaft and tail housing.
> This was a very tight budgeted project with a short fuse.  The short
> term answer was to buy a speedo cluster from an '89 Chevy and plug
> in the wire harness and leave it on the floor.  The AC signal from
> the speed sensor is converted to an on/off 12 volt DC signal by the
> PC board backplane of the speedo housing.  

You probably don't want to hear this, but there's a company called 
JTR that writes swap manuals for putting FI small block chevies into 
Z cars, volvos, S trucks, older non FI GM cars, etc.  They also have 
a line of parts to help the conversion, one of which is a VSS sensor 
that includes a mechanical cable drive, so you get a VSS signal for 
the computer and a cable for your speedometer.  Cost is around $5...

--steve