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Do you show how you wired them?

 

Speedo is GPS, If you run a dedicated 12V and well as a switched 12V to the speedo, it boots up and finds the satellite in about 3 seconds. Tach is a tach - find  + coil wire, water and oil are kind of a pita because you have to use the speedhut senders. On a KA24DE the fuggin water temp sender is 1.25 thread pitch and was a bitch to find an adaptor, but I did...I did not want to put it in the radiator hose. Oil is 1/8" BFST thread but those are fairly easy to find.

 

One thing I learned the hard way this weekend...by removing the stock gauge cluster I removed the factory "charge" light which is one of the things that the internal voltage regulator on the KA Alternator needs to regulate the voltage. Sooooo..I sent ~16 volts to my brand new keyless start module and pretty much let the smoke out. Project next weekend: install lamp in the "L" wire circuit and install new keyless start module.

 

Stupid tax bill: $100.

 

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Speedo is GPS, If you run a dedicated 12V and well as a switched 12V to the speedo, it boots up and finds the satellite in about 3 seconds. Tach is a tach - find  + coil wire, water and oil are kind of a pita because you have to use the speedhut senders. On a KA24DE the fuggin water temp sender is 1.25 thread pitch and was a bitch to find an adaptor, but I did...I did not want to put it in the radiator hose. Oil is 1/8" BFST thread but those are fairly easy to find.

 

One thing I learned the hard way this weekend...by removing the stock gauge cluster I removed the factory "charge" light which is one of the things that the internal voltage regulator on the KA Alternator needs to regulate the voltage. Sooooo..I sent ~16 volts to my brand new keyless start module and pretty much let the smoke out. Project next weekend: install lamp in the "L" wire circuit and install new keyless start module.

 

Stupid tax bill: $100.

 

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May I ask how much you spent on everything?

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Sounds like it's a lot but then again not really, the original tach is about 500 bucks now Adays .. And it's a different look

Gps tach is well worth it. I love the quality of gauges
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Sounds like it's a lot but then again not really, the original tach is about 500 bucks now Adays .. And it's a different look

 

And the quad is four gauges....!

 

I think the cable regular speedo is less $$$, but the GPS does cool stuff like 0-60, max speed, time, distance and a bunch of other things I cant remember.

 

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So let me start off saying I am a total noob with the 510's. Had one in High school, sold my 68 C10 to build my dream car. Just got a 70 510 this week from James! For now it will be called my 510 Carcus lol. I am looking into instrument panel and gage options. They seem to be like finding most parts for these car's. Is there a company that makes them or is it all custom work?

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There are 3 factory gauge setups.

 

68 has a long wide Speedo,

 

69+ has 3 openings for Speedo, fuel/temp, and idiot lights or optional tach or clock.

 

Then there is the SSS cluster which i believe has 5 gauges, not sure what they are though.

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Only the '68 had the ignition switch IN the dash on the left side of the steering wheel. The '69 and up were all on the steering column.

 

The '68 has horizontal heater control levers, while the '69 were vertical.

 

'68 and '69 gauges are almost identical with horizontal sweep speedometer. '70 was the big change to round pod gauges.

 

The '68 has a dip in the center the dash pad the '69 does not.

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