CordiaDOHC

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Ok honestly I dont really care for the silver face gauges and was wanting the 160mph speedometer. Would I need to get an 07-08 cluster or would I need to do a TC cluster? I dont know the electronic differences and searching produced limited information. So any info would be great.

Acey

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Direct swap. Looks way better. I did it.

NCC-2000

To be safe just stick to the same year and it'll all work fine. I have an 07 SS/SC cluster in mine.

CordiaDOHC

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Sweet. Thats what I figured but wanted to make sure. Now just to find a TC cluster lol


Thanks

G5King

Does it not affect anything going from a 140mph (or 120, honestly I can't remember) cluster to a 160mph?

Dunkinuts

you can't really go past 130mph anyways unless you are making a lot of power and have a lot of room.

G5King

Yeah, but since the clusters are the same size I would assume the numbers would be spaced differently. Wouldn't that give you an innaccurate reading?

Maybe I'm missing something.

red2001ss

Electronically Controled. The signal is what tells the speedo what to display. By tuning the Computer you can change that. IE when I put 4.11's in my Camaro, the speedo was off, but a tune fixed that. My guess is with the way the clusters are set up, it just reads the speed the computer says it's going.

Edit:

The most concern would be what mileage is on the cluster you put in.

DaBuzzard

Would expect that info to come from the bcm but I could be wrong

I agree, the speedo is just displaying whatever the bcm tells it, should (fingers crossed) be plug and play. Worst case you might have to get a dealer to tweak the bcm with a tech-2 to "tell" it that the speedo is different.

The Camaro needed to be tweaked because the speed sensor is at the trans output - "before" the diff. The bcm needs to know the gear ratio to apply a correction to get the actual road speed to send to the speedo. FWD the speed signal is "after" the diff, so no gear ratio correction would be required if you were to regear your Balt.

Back in the day (dating myself a bit here ) we had to change the speedo gears in the tranny to get the cable driven speedo to read right, life is soooo much easier now

Acey

iTrader: (3)

100% correct. And the mileage is stored in the BCM and displayed on whatever cluster is plugged in.

red2001ss

ok, then this cluster is different from the other GM Clusters, or it's a fairly new feature. My Camaro, the mileage is stored in the Cluster as well as my Silverado. Which actually is kinda retarded, makes it easier for some odometer fraud.

DaBuzzard

Different cars, different setups.
Note that both your Camaro and pickemup are rwd while the Balt is fwd......maybe there is a reason there after all?

pat_07ss

It is in the BCM, you're right