James
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| posted on 19/2/04 at 05:26 PM |
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Using EFI Sierra dash
To save what seems like about £500 in Digidashs or nice clocks I'm thinking about fitting the (admittedly shockingly ugly) Sierra dash.
I just want to check something:
As I had the EFI Sierra will my dash only work if the ECU is connected up? Are the dials powered directly off the sensors or do the sensors tell the
ECU and then that determines what goes to the clocks?
Basically- will I need to get a carb' Sierra dash or can I use the EFI one and get reasonably full functionality?
Thanks,
James
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 19/2/04 at 07:14 PM |
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I dont think the efi has anything at all to do with the dash....... certainly didnt on the granny 2.4 V6.
The speedo would need the lekky sensor on the box and the tacho I think just goes to ignition control box / breaker.
Rest of the lights are just lights - you can wire em as needed.
I thought about using mine, but spent 350 quid instead
If you know someone artistic, you could spray the dials white and re-legend them, if you wanna be different. And im pretty sure you could get some
bezels from summat or other to make em look better if needed
atb
steve
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James
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| posted on 20/2/04 at 11:05 AM |
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As long as it doesn't look like some of the Robin Hood show cars I've seen- badly cut vinyl padding laid over the top with circle cut in
it! 
Was wondering if a laser (or wire  ) cut piece of stainless over it would look nice... or atleast nice-r! 
Cheers for the info Steve,
James
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 20/2/04 at 07:38 PM |
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i was actually gonna say summat like just cut a hole and cover it with pvc fabric - but decided not to in cas eI upset anyone that had.
anyway - you did it
atb
steve
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Graceland
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| posted on 21/2/04 at 12:54 PM |
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sierra dashset is independant of the ecu 
only 1 that had anything to do with the ecu was the rs500 / 3door cosworth which had the boost guage
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Graceland
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| posted on 21/2/04 at 12:56 PM |
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oh, and 90 spec ones look a lot nicer than pre90 spec ones and if you can get the sapphire cosworth dashset, then you also get the added bonus of a
170mph speedo  - which i have got from my donor car (not that it ever got that fast - they just look nice - but i'm a sierra man at heart.
lol)
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JoelP
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| posted on 21/2/04 at 04:30 PM |
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with a bit of fiddling, most of the guages come out anyway. mine only had fuel, temp and speedo, but was easy to break apart. i bought old guages off
ebay anyway, they're only a couple of quid.
sod pissing on £500
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James
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| posted on 24/2/04 at 02:52 PM |
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Cheers for the info' everyone.
Steve,
If it's done nicely then I don't have a problem- it's just that when you see it and the circle isn't even cut properly
it's a bit off- putting if u know what I mean!
Graceland,
Is there only 2 types of dash? Mine's a '89 model but I'm pretty sure I've seen an older style so maybe I have the more modern
one?
Joel,
I haven't tried dismantling the unit yet- maybe I'll give that a go! I've started watching items on ebay!
Cheers,
James
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Peteff
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| posted on 24/2/04 at 08:07 PM |
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I hacksawed the plastic facia off mine so it was flat and screwed it to the back of the dash then just put a piece of perspex in front of it, but then
I am a bodger. You could spend more time on it and make it look like round gauges quite easily though. I didn't bother with a fuel gauge but
it's still there reads empty so it would worry someone who didn't know. It could be an anti theft device for sva purposes.
yours, Pete.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Graceland
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| posted on 25/2/04 at 11:24 AM |
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theres about 8 types james
sierra cosworth (the origional 3 door with the boost guage above the rev counter) and 170mph speedo
Sierra base - just speedo and fuel/temp
130mph speedo on the early 1.3 and early 1.6 models
sierra not so base - as base, but a clock where a rev counter would be - 150mph speedo
normal sierra - rev counter, temp, fuel, speed - 150 mph speedo
sapphire cosworth - 170mph variant speedo
V6 sierra - rev counter changed to allow 6 cylynder readings 150 mph speedo
then the normal sierra, sapphire cosworth and V6 ones were updated for the 90 spec dashboard and this involved removing the numbers on the fuel guage,
neatening the temp guage, making the distance between zero revs and 1000 revs smaller and removing the needle rest pin and the speedo was more or less
the same bar some slight printing differances and the 130mph speedo was phased out when the mk2 sierra was launched and all sierras, apart from the
cosworth variety, had 150mph speedo's
and then you have the left hand driver variants with kilometers for the speedo
just a few differant ones
[Edited on 25/2/04 by Graceland]
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