jeffdort

Came across this link in car craft mag, http://vettaid.com/

I think it looks pretty dam good.
I havent looked into pricing or anything but i think this may be exactly what some of you are looking for.

and no, i dont work for the company

slickfx3

Fantastic!

DanZ51

No prices listed, guess that falls under "If you have to ask, you probably ......"

Demonic85

And it only comes with a 120 mph speedo, should be at least 150 considering its a vette.

RonRed89

Definitely looks interesting, but there are some key things that appear to be missing such as any sort of digital anything to display average MPG or Range functions. It would be good to do a compare and contrast between this setup vs the Dakota Digital setup that was made for our cars.

Ron

bomar76

Pretty pizz poor marketing on their part.
Have yet to see a single advert from them in any vette mag or forum, just that ad in CarCraft.
Considering the huge lead time in magazine advertising you would think they would have had scads of time to get the word out on the internet.

Then look at their webiste...
Virtuall no information on the unit.
One artsy craftsy angle pic of the cluster.
No details on anything.
And best of all, no pricing.

Bozo bin for them...

Aardwolf

It says six different options, I'd bet one is a speedo that goes higher. Anyone email them for cost? I'd be curious.

Carl Johansson

I'll call em tommorrow, and let you know what they say. No sence in speculating - lets find out what they have- and what it costs!
Carl Johansson

powerpigz-51

120 speedo and a 8 grand tach.....

Swift_Striker

hahah great I just made my analog gauge pod with the same gauges (Autometer sport comp) lol. I would have seriously considered these guys if I knew about them a couple months ago.

redrose

88 firebird gauges in reworked bird housing...hi/lo selector switch for 150 mph max in lo range, 300 mph max in hi range...no sensor changes...plugs into vette dash harness with no wire cutting, returns to oem atari dash in 45 min.

apologies for reflections on the new lexan faceplate, as it ages and gets a few scratches that will stop.

mayan46

Are you saying I can use a 1988 Firebird gauge cluster and modified Firebird bezel and it will all plug into the Corvette wiring harness and work with the same Corvette sensors? If so, will this work on a 1988 Corvette? It looks good to me. Thanks.

blkvette85

Tell us more. Looks better than the Vetteaid cluster.

redrose

use any 87-89 bird cluster that has an electronic speedo (some 86 birds also have elec speedos, 90-92 birds have 'newer design' tachs that die young).

the vette dash harness has a connector that plugs into the vette digidash...bird gauges must be wired to a matching connector that can be ripped from many late 80's ecms...bird clusters come with a flexible snap-on plastic printed circuit that actually idents the gauge connections, bird gauges are mounted to the cluster rear housing by screws that also are the elec conns...modded bird cluster uses 'spaghetti' (wires) vs oem printed cuircuit.

the oem bird cluster assy is wider than the vette digidash space...i chopped the bird rear housing and rearranged the gauges to fit the oem vette space as i did not want to chop the vette center console/air outlets to fit a whole bird cluster...another forum member, vinny's87, made his own housing/faceplate/lens...''chopped'' rear housing vs oem:


oem bird 'bezel' (front of cluster) might be re-used, but i chose to have a machine shop cut holes in a 1/8" alum plate and made a new front 'lens plate' from 'homie depot' .090 lexan.

bird gauges will work with 84-89 vette sensors, don't even need to open the hood.

v-6 bird gauge tach will read 1/3 fast when used in vette (i.e. 6k rpm will read 8k), v-8 cluster tach reads right on, gauge clusters have an external paper tag sez 6 or 8 cylinder, tach face has hidden 6 or 8 cyl perm label... 'elec' bird speedos come in several 'max' mph scales and all are good, can add 'hi-lo' select switch to double up (i.e. 80 mph x 2 = 160, 120 mph x2 = 240, new 'hi' mph 'numbers' should be added)

defo98

the kit is $739.00 I think thats a little steep

Road Agent

blkvette85

The Firebird cluster looks really good.

Do you think a Camaro cluster would work?

ChopperKingpin

Camaro cluster has cable driven speedo...at least if you are talking about IROC-Zs or similar. Firebird/Trans Am/GTA is the way to go for electric speedos.

Hole-Shot

Click the link below. This one is all good to go.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-p...digi-dash.html

Muffin

If I read correctly the 8 gage plug and play is almost $1,800.00 **** that.