Digital **DASHBOARD**

[Brother Mike]

Please do not flame me for asking this question-it is asked for the ubiquitous "friend" Is it possible to install a digital dash into a Marauder like the GM has? If so- any idea how much$$$?

[Donny Carlson]

:D

Hey, I know the digital dash is crap to most enthusiasts, but they can be fun. No help on the dash, but it does remind me of something.

The Corvette digital dash in the (oh, what is the current model designation, C6 or C7?.....) well, what ever the one that came out after they skipped a year trying to figure out how to build the bugs out of the new design back in 1982 or 83....a C5? Whatever.

Anywho, if you go through the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green (which I highly recommend), there's an exhibit of an analog dash that was designed and a small run manufactured for the car. It seems the engineers weren't too sure they could get the digital dash to work in time, so had these analog dashes made up just in case. They had real problems with the LED dashes working in cold climates. They figured it out, and some dozens of these dashes wound up in a heap somewhere until somebody snagged a couple for the museum.

Also, the only remaining whole 1982 (or is that 1983... my memory sucks) Corvette is in the museum. It used to be parked in the entrance hall at the plant back before the new museum was built. White. The other car, the only two Corvettes of that year that werent crushed by Chevrolet, was sliced in half and hung over the employee entrance to the plant.

In those days you could take delivery of your Vette at the plant. The visitor's center had a display case of still photos taken of various celebrity owners that had picked their cars up at the plant (for some reason Marilyn Quayle sticks in my mind). The cool part of that delivery was you could plan your delivery such that you could be in the plant for the final steps of your car's build and be the first person to start the car while it was still on the line. When I toured the plant a member of our group was allowed to start a ZR-1 that was in final assembly. Cool. You'd come back the next day, they'd take a picture of you and your car in front of the plant's sign, then you could take your car out for run around the plant track with the delivery rep.

Now, and for a fee (I think there was a similar fee for plant delivery), you can take delivery at the Corvette Museum. I'm not sure if you can still time it to see final assembly on your car, but it is cool to have your new car delivered inside the museum behind a roped off area in the exhibit dome.

Best we can hope for with our beauties is that one or more of them wind up in an appropriate museum some day....

[LincMercLover]

Wow... Umm... anyway... LOL!

No, I don't think so... The wiring harness is different (to accomidate for the speedo and tach additions?).

[RCSignals]

I don't think it's an easy switch.

Digital dashes just don't fit the Marauder image IMO

[SouLRioT]

Not for the dash, but DR does have his new digital read out where the clock would be.

[Merc-O-matic]

I think if you had the money and
the time, and could find somebody
who knew what they were doing,
a Digital Dash from a Grand Marquis
would fit the bill. (with mods)
I have a Digital Dash in my GM and
kinda like it now.
Gotta Love It!

[Dr Caleb]

I've got a digital dash in my 92 CV. I hate it.

It's hard to see in daylight and the previous owner used Windex on the plastic, so it's that much harder to see.

But hey, whatever floats your boat!

[mdmarauder]

I'd rather have a digital dash also. I like the look much better than the analog. That's one thing I loved about the late 80's T-Birds.

[BlownBlass]

You could go with Cyberdyne (or whatever their new name is, it seems to change alot) Digital gauges and sending units. It is alot of work and I advise getting someone experienced in this sort of thing to do it. And it will be costly. However I did it in my supercharged 88' Mark VII and was very happy, I was able to keep the stock gauges in tact behind my custom Digital dash, that way the stock odometer kept ticking and remainrd correct. See attached.

[Bigdogjim]

Just more to go wrong some day.

[CRUZTAKER]

Buck Rogers of the twenty-first century!!!!!

Sorry, off topic....need to continiue to consume Rum.

[tbore007]

anything can be done....where theres a will theres a way

[JohnE]

You would loose the TACH by going to the digital dash. The CV/GM digital dash may work (analog inputs), but the TC will not (digital comms to EEC).

My car has the digital dash and I like it. Wish it had a tachometer.

[TripleTransAm]

Y'all can file this under the "useless information" category, but I like digital dashes when they're done right. The early C4 (1984-1996) Corvettes had a slow acting unit that was sometimes hard to see in daylight... my GTA's unit is coloured LCD, which is actually easier to see when light is hitting it directly.

http://www.tripletransam.com/gta/Dscf5096a.jpg


More useless info on my GTA's dash found here:
http://www.tripletransam.com/gta_int.html

[SouLRioT]

Looking at that makes me feel like I need a red scanner in the front of my car.