Hey everyone,
I recently finished retrofitting a digital instrument cluster from a 1987 Opel Kadett into my DeLorean.
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I bought the instrument cluster off ebay from a guy in Lithuania. After bench testing the instrument cluster and verifying it worked, I began the retrofitting process...which took a while. I finally finished, though, and the gauges all work. The speedometer is GPS driven, I'm using this sender unit from Dakota Digital. The odometer is also accurate, it was relatively easy to disassemble it and put the correct mileage on it.
As to why I did this, a couple reasons. One, I always liked the look of old digital instrument clusters from the 80s and 90s. Two, I got tired of the DeLorean speedometer constantly breaking, I must have fixed it at least five times. I replaced the angle drive at least twice, the dust shield at least twice, replaced the speedo cable more than once, etc. So I used that as an excuse to retrofit a different one in. I have some more photos of my build process if anyone's interested.