New mods

[Difflay]

Well today I went to the local junkyard and picked up a oldsmobile intrigue gauge cluster and some grand am side mirrors, the thing I like about the intrigue gauge cluster is its the same thing but the redline is actually red and it goes to 8000 rpm and it looks amazing day and especially night. Mirrors were a peice of cake, bolted right on plugged right in and works perfect plus looks pretty good, ill take pics tomorrow!

[03glgold]

gauges might look cool, but unless you build you will never use a tach any higher than stock...does it work right as soon as you plugged it in, or were there changes that needed/need to be made

[WIALERO]

I wana see the intrigue cluster in the alero :) get those pics up ASAP

[sleepyalero]

the intruige cluster will not work for the alero, IIRC. Mfuller tried and it wouldnt work.

[WIALERO]

Not even take off the black face and put it on a alero cluster?

[sleepyalero]

im not sure. i just know its not plug n play.

[WIALERO]

Well il give it a shot

[Cliff8928]

im not sure. i just know its not plug n play.

The intrigue cluster requires discrete power mode inputs, where the Alero receives this information via Class 2 data.

I'm not sure if you can just add those power mode wires and it will be all fine and dandy.

Does the intrigue cluster have all the same lights in the same location as the Alero?

[sleepyalero]

The intrigue cluster requires discrete power mode inputs, where the Alero receives this information via Class 2 data.

I'm not sure if you can just add those power mode wires and it will be all fine and dandy.

Does the intrigue cluster have all the same lights in the same location as the Alero?

i think, i remember mfuller explaining it to me awhile back. because he was going to do the swap, but he said it would not work. maybe he will chime in.

[Difflay]

Guys it works perfectly fine I took the curcuit board out of the alero cluster and put it in the intruige one -_-

[Difflay]

See!

[Difflay]

Here's with light

[Difflay]

It didn't work at first so I swapped the circuit boards... The only reason I wanted it was for the red and it still shifts at the right rpm anyways, not that it matters I don't drive around town with the peddle to the metal. And without the circuit boards swapped I would have incorrect miles from the donor car

[03Sleepr]

So, does the tach display the correct rpm?

Does it still how what gear you're in?

[Difflay]

Yes and yes, look at the pics? It's red :)

[Difflay]

And the needle isn't resting perfectly at 0 because I didn't push that tab in all the way, which ill fix later, not too worried about it... It took the longest time though because I took the needles off to clean the junkyard cluster off and then I had to have the car running and put the needles back on at the right spot so they worked good so FYI don't remove the needles lol

[sleepyalero]

its nice, but your car will never see the 8k mark :(

[03Sleepr]

Yes and yes, look at the pics? It's red :)

I couldn't understand your word blob paragraph thing..

[mfuller]

Can you please post some instructions on how to change the circuit board? I'd love to do this as my car will see 7000+ RPM easily.

[sleepyalero]

I am impressed though, im sure you are the first to actually make it work, but not the first to wonder about swapping. :)

[Difflay]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=J4zFuQ8GeUI

[Difflay]

Ill make a how to vid today sometime! :D

[Difflay]

Be careful with your circuit board though I short circuited mine old one and had to pick a new one up from a junkyard so know it says I have 130000 miles -_- but I was messin with the lights so you should be fine if your just swapping the faces

[falloutboy]

for everyone that is not on a phone
J4zFuQ8GeUI

[Difflay]

Thanks!

[mfuller]

Awesome! I plan on doing this very soon.
Already have the Intrigue cluster.

[JLw7123]

looks good.

[02AleroGLS]

Hey i really like that cluster swap! What all did you have to do to get it to fit and work properly???!

[mfuller]

Hey i really like that cluster swap! What all did you have to do to get it to fit and work properly???!
It physically fits as-is with no changes. However, to make it function you apparently have to swap out circuit boards. OP is putting together a how-to.

[Difflay]

Basically just take the back cover off and pull the circuit board out and swap them :D