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electric speedo??
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 8:31 pm
by brendan_h
is it posible to get an electric speedo in a 91 sierra? reason being is im going to make a custom dash to fit my after market gauges and i need a speedo
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:01 pm
by want33s
Custom dash????
Aftermarket guages?????
Is it a Sierra or a Silvia????
http://www.jegs.com/i/Cyberdyne/280/C241E361N/10002/-1
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:21 pm
by brendan_h
haha got to have somthing good to look at
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:29 pm
by want33s
Whats wrong with the blue digital one in the link I posted?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:30 pm
by brendan_h
just looking around ebay. found a few speedoes out of older cars that looks like they could work with the machanical cable. is there any accuracy change in using a diff speedo with the orignal cable?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 9:38 pm
by joeblow
will have to do your math and get the gearing right.
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:47 pm
by brendan_h
im guessing a speedo alibrator will be about to do it for me?
if i where to do it myself what is involved?
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 3:37 pm
by brendan_h
will this work with a sierra gearbox
http://www.autometer.com/cat_accessorie ... px?vid=114
also does nayone know how mnay OHMs the fuel sender is?
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:03 pm
by v840
I just put one of these on a mates bike and have wired a similar (round one) on to my bike.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Acewell-3853-dig ... dZViewItem
They are for bikes but I think they would be sweet in a zook and am probably going to fit one in mine if I get round to it.
They are adjustable for pretty much any tyre size you can think of, have fuel, speedo, odometer and trip guages, are piss easy to wire in, and are easily mountable in a custom dash.
Just another option to consider.
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 9:45 pm
by Santos
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:13 pm
by brendan_h
what i am getting at is how do i get an elecric speedo if the stock is machanical. i need a sender or somthing
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 9:54 am
by Gwagensteve
Brendan_h, are you building a whole dash from scratch or are you just replacing the instruments? you'll need to be careful about how you are going to satisfy an engineer you can demist the car, all surfaces match ADR's for impact etc if you're building a whole dash from scratch.
To drive an electronic speedo, you can either set up a new hall effect sensor and magnetic trigger on the output flange of the transfer, or maybe, just maybe, try and adapt a jimny electronic speedo sensor into the sierra transfer.
I think DGtuning also made a part to do this as part of their sierra transfer conversion kit for jimny's.
You need to have a look at generic electronic gauges (like the auto meter speedo) and see what they inlcude to set them up.
Personally, though, building a dash is a lot of wasted money and time. How many gauges do you want? what don't the stock gauges do?
Steve.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:58 pm
by Aerenandmel
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:04 pm
by brendan_h
making a new instrument panle.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:22 pm
by Gwagensteve
They can be set up to work fine. There was an article in either petersens or 4WD&SU about using a pushy speedo on a car a couple of years ago. Apparently works very well. they still need a magnetic pickup on the tailshaft flange to be set up and some maths to be done though.
Steve.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:33 pm
by gman79au
I found this neat little unit from APIO in Japan (the home for all suzi owners) it looks pricy but I bet its good quality and also is easily adapted to factory equipment.
http://translate.google.com.au/translat ... %26tl%3Dja
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:46 pm
by want33s
XD - XE Falcons run an electronic speedo (No cable) ... Maybe you can adapt the driver from a Borg Warner 35 (Falcon 6 auto) to the suzi box.
Falcon parts are cheap as chips at the wreckers.
The electronic speedo like in the link I posted earlier must be able to be calibrated to suit different senders.
