Digital Dash Compatibility

[Gary Derian]

Fred, you may be in luck.  I think the digital dash for the '84-'89 Vette is
self contained and uses conventional inputs from senders.  It is only the
newer stuff that has PCM driven clusters.  I have a prototype analog
instrument cluster that was built for the '84 Vette but never put into
production.  Its too bad the GM MBA-heads made the wrong decision on that
one.  The analog cluster is pretty nice, large speedo and tach with 6 round
dials arrayed 2 by 3 in between.  My point is this analog cluster is
completely conventional for its inputs, a sender and wire for each gauge.
It even uses the same connectors as the digital cluster and would be a
plug-in.

Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>
>
> Frederic Breitwieser wrote:
> >
> > > digital dash), the dash communicated with the ECM over the ALDL port
to
> > > get the information to display.  That means they have to run at the
same
> >
> > Interesting :)
> >
> > I had hoped that since the connectors fit, it would work
> > appropriately.  See, the analog cluster (minus the speedo)
> > from the Camaro worked on the older harness, so I was hoping
> > the digital dash piece was entirely self contained.
> >