Just wanted to know what you guys are using for speedos with the 4L60E trans. Anybody swaped in another cluster from something else? I would love to know what you have done.
Speedo Question with 4L60E
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You can run an electric speedo that receives its signal from the vss(vehicle speed sensor), or you can get the cable-x box, and last but not least is to purchase the cable driven tail housing from a 700-r4 and hooking your vehicles speedo cable to it.
Yep, go to a junkyard for that last bit, you can likely get a tailhousing & speedo gears (not sure if they'll be correct, do your research here) from a core trans for fairly cheap.
I went the other route, just put in a custom tach and speedo from autometer, I believe 3 3/8" was the size, had to cut a little bit, but they worked great...oh they were the electric ones not mechanical btw.
HTH
Otis
HTH
Otis
87SS-ZZ3 said:
I will be using an autometer electronic speedometer with an 86-88 Monte SS style face plate. Cheaper than buying the box to convert the digital signal, and less hassle than changing the tailshaft. At least for me, it was important to keep the stock visual look to it.
That would be interesting to see.
I was thinking... with the electronic trans you may need the VSS to retain lockup converter function. Be sure to check into that as well before switching to a mechanical speedo.
I was thinking... with the electronic trans you may need the VSS to retain lockup converter function. Be sure to check into that as well before switching to a mechanical speedo.
86SS86LS said:
This is what I was talking about. Please let me know how this works out for you. If you have done this already, please send me more info.
Hopefully this week the car will be done, if it is so, tehn I'll get pics of the gauges I've put in, they were the phantom ones, so they are white instead of black, and when I get money I'm going to put the other four, the smaller ones, in the same way instead of my mix and match i've got now..
87SS-ZZ3 said:
I just sent the file to your email. I plan on having a print shop make a high quality copy on a thin sheet of cardboard. It may take a little trial and error to match the color and gloss of the stock gauges. The dimensions are setup to fit over an autometer electronic speedometer, I bought one used on ebay. From looking at the gauge cluster, I don't think it will take much work to make the autometer speedo fit.
I bought a panel made by a member here, and used Autometer Phantom Gauges:
I could not fit all the gauges in the cluster, so I mounted the other two as shown in this picture:
I could not fit all the gauges in the cluster, so I mounted the other two as shown in this picture:
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