I know our instrument clusters are a PITA to deal with even after you do the LED conversion which leads me to look for alternative solutions to have a modern and working instrument cluster.

I ran across this and see that some guys have successfully retrofitted an IS350 cluster into a 2jz IS300.

http://my.is/forums/f90/is350-gauge-...haaaat-417076/

So, with that said, would it be possible to do that on our cars?

I don't care if some of the stuff doesn't work, Things I care about would be MPH, RPM, Temp, and maybe fuel.

Thoughts? Any electronics geniuses?

 

Jerry, where you been bro-Long time no hear from you! lol...but seriously, that would be a interesting cluster in the SC? I'm not sure how I feel about it tho? Or maybe I'm just old school and believe I should stick with the O.L.T. magic! It is interesting tho, lets see if there's any responses?

steve

 

Now we are getting into something here.... I would like to see this happen, like a year ago... LOL

 

yea i saw this a few weeks ago in one of the meet vids they have abnd thought it was crazy kool

 

That would be cool as hell....

 

It looks goos but they still have issues.i rather have function > looks

 

Very true, to bad...

 

that looks bad ***. i'd rather have that. but our cars especially those of us with the much older 92 models... im thinking of major issues with it working with older systems.

 

Is there any hope for this to work?

 

Would be a great addition to upgrade the look of the interior.. would love to see this happen!

 

Firat gen would be sexy and cheaper to purchase as well

 

There is nothing about an IS that goes with the Sc interior. You have to take into consideration how something is going to look inside the car. It's just one piece attached to the entire rest of the car, it has to work. The IS has a very updated and retro interior. Everything in the IS300 looks like the same things that are being put out right now so the IS 350 dash blends well. The space ship thing. The interior of the Sc is very reserved. Not specifically in it's color, but in the entire design itself. Everything is designed to be low key. Even if you dipped the entire interior in Carbon Fiber, it would still not be shaped and designed in such a way that would accommodate the IS350 dash in any way. There is nothing that would stand out like a sore thumb more than this dash. I approve of it in the IS300, but the SC just doesn't work at all. It's such a dated interior you can't stick something like this dead center in the middle of it. If you take an Sc dash and light it up with blue and white led's and make it looks as bright and pretty as possible and set this dash beside it, there's no comparison to the two. The IS350 dash is just flat out going to look better because it was designed to look better and be put into an interior that was also designed to look better. You can get away with a lot of things, but you just can't stick something like this in the interior of the SC no matter how many times you dye it black inside. It's just not designed to have something that looks like this in it. It's weird looking.

It works in the IS300 very nicely though and if you REALLY like this dash you can pick up an IS300 cheap and do this mod as well as many others without it looking out of place.

If you are going to use dashes in the Sc they have to have a little more conservative design. THEN light them up white or blue or whatever. This isn't an opinion on what looks good or what doesn't, it's a matter of sticking something that looks like a spaceship in a very conservative interior. It just doesn't work. Around 2003 everyone went to these sharp edge interiors and elaborately designed and shaped interiors and threw out the standard straight across plank dashes. BEAUTIFUL cluster though. It's hot.

As far as whether or not you can make it work, you'd need to know what signals it accepts and what their ranges are. If they are AC or DC pulsed signals, their voltage levels, if they are controlled by a particular controller unit that sends a specific signal to the cluster that the cluster needs, etc....... You'd have to review the blueprints of both units. Old clusters were happy just to get 12v signals, no pulses. New clusters use high frequencies, instead of DC they sometimes run AC inputs. Newer sensors are more likely to put out a pulse instead of solid line of voltage. The problem with that is that your older vehicle is not going to pulse signals, and not going to be AC for certain. Nothing is ever easy. If you want it bad enough, and have enough money to spend having someone design a system from the blueprints, anything can happen.