Digital Cluster conversion

[wertys]

haha! anywho, if you guys are interested, i can keep a worklog about it, I'll try making a How-to. Basically, I just bought a digital Mercury Villager cluster. This means that i will do some extreme modding around the cluster area and ill try to fit this. I got the idea of using Drift Iridium series Gauges but after a price check, turns out it'd cost more around 600$ just to get them. So i managed to find this.
http://www.xtremethings.com/Digital_Cluster.htm
tell me what you think. all opinions are welcomed.


Ruff. Theres a tinted plexiglass that's going to hide the digits.

[ethand]

Haha! That's sick! It looks so old-school before its installed, but his final pics look pretty slick. I think the blue plexiglass filter he uses must be part of the key to make it look fresher. Works well with the Probe interior, and I should think it would be good for the MX interior, too - although, slightly dependant on the dash type you have - I should think it would work better with the 92-'94 dash better than the '94+ USDM dash. I think that the bubbly-shaped design of the 94+ USDM dash might conflict a little with the shapes of that speedo. That said, I have the JDM dash in mine, so I don't really know the USDM dashes all that well. Would look fantastic with any other MX dash, though, IMO (please don't tell me that you have a '94+ USDM dash now!! Ha ha).
Great to see something a little bit different again

[wertys]

As a matter of fact, i have the round dash but im so fixated about having digital that imma try it anyways...im sure the end result will look awesome eheh....if i dont like it ill just sell it. Ill start by doing first eheh

[ethand]

ah, right, well, I'm defs interested to see how it comes up! And like you say - worst case scenario, you sell it to someone else haha - I'm sure there will be others on the forum who really want digital also
I do think it will look cool, though

[wertys]

well im definitively going to try it out even if my girlfriend says otherwise hahah thinks its too retro. anywho, will let you know how it goes.

[ethand]

haha nah, I'm defs looking forward to seeing how it turns out

[Dark_Rider2k3]

That's actually awesome. Post pics of your prgress on this!

[wertys]

posted a pic. tell me what you think.

[MrMazda92]

I would love to see more on this project!!

Will you be replacing the left gauge, since the functionality doesn't exist for the MX-3?

Michael Perry made it sound like he was going to be puttin an A/F gauge there, I'd love to see that come to fruition!

[Nd4SpdSe]

I first say that a few months ago and man, If i would of knew about it back when I had mine, I SO would of jumped on doing that!

Holy cow, it just dawned on me, that the Villager uses a Nissan VG30 motor, which means I could potentially do this for my Xterra even easier than for a Mx-3/Probe/Whatever?!?!

OMG

How much was the cluster? Where did you get it?

[wertys]

i could actually get you one for 50$ but turns out i sold the 3 plugs that goes on it you'd have to wire straight from the pins.
I've looked for aftermarket digi Odometers, found none.(i'll probably live with cluster odo.)
ill try to tweak the one on there but my abilities are quite restricted.
as for fuel efficiency replacement, i don't know yet.
The oval hole in the middle(where the PRND12 was) , i'll probably put a MX-3 logo that turns on with accessory.
Im taking pictures so that i can make a How-to in the near future.
and the last thing im going to do is put up some switch to flip from MPH to KPH.

[im2bad4ya]

Good job man!

Post up the final product.

I was inspired to do my own digital clusters as well when I found out that a EDM Mazda had digital gauges that fit our cars, except the speedometer is in KM/H.


I'll first have to swap my mechanical speedo to electrical (already have the cluster, currently waiting on the electric speedo gear).

And when I have the time and money, I wanna retro fit the new gen Civic Speedo, temp gauge, and fuel gauge in the MX3 cluster, and have a standalone Autometer tach on the dash. Here's the civic cluster I'm talking about:

[wertys]

its coming together

only speedo seems to give me trouble wiring. will tell you all about it once its completed

[youdirtyfox]

awesome proper knightrider styley

[WhiteFinish]

Very cool project !