I'm pretty excited about this, so I may be posting a bit premature, but this may be my only opportunity to give something back to H-T after taking so, so much.

After realizing that I'd need to rewire my dash just to put the cluster from my 90 parts car into my 89 CRX, i decided to just go all out and do something creative. NOTE -- I think somebody on here has done this before, but I couldnt' find verification or pictures.

Anyway, I like my MPH, so anything JDM was out. I don't care much about the redline (my VAFCII is my tach, and my rev limiter is set at 9600 rpm), but I wanted the tach to be the same size as the speedo... revs > mph, in true "racing" fashion. So that ruled out EK clusters, and pretty much all accord clusters. And GSR clusters never seem, to me at least, to fit quite right under a CRX gauge cluster hood. The fuel/temp gauges stick out too far. So then I saw a picture of the 97-01 prelude cluster, and liked it enough to plunk down some change for one.

And today, it arrived. I was a little bit leary about taking a 35,000 rpm dremel to a pretty expensive cluster, but the results set my heart at ease. after about an hour and a half of trimming the hood and the gauges, everything looks like it should fit:



Ultimately it'll move up a tad bit to get the bottoms of the gauges lined up right, but I think this picture proves that it's a pretty good fit.

I'm gonna try to finish this all up within a week. I'll keep you all posted on the finished fit, wiring, and converting my b16 tranny to an electronic VSS.

 

looks nice, hope it works out....cannot waitto see it illuminated

 

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what he said...

 

2 thumbs up from me. I love pioneers.

 

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Same here! I may do this over the gsr!

 

would like to see it all operating in car
looks super clean!!
fits like stock!

 

looks very nice and unique so far, I am anxious to see what it will turn out to look like! for style

 

that is HOT! Let us know the wiring hassles if any, I think I may attempt this, of course only after you succeed

Hey don;t forget to FULLY document it, since you are still in the infant stage of the swap!

 

that looks soo good if you get it working fine please do a full write up i'd love that mod myself

 

that is sick, need a vid when its done.

 

Sweet, keep us posted with updates and progress!

Blaze

 

 

Wow, looks better than others people have tried where the gauges are really cut off. That seems to line up not to bad for a custom job.

 

i like it too...keep us posted

 

that looks killer, want a full walk through and detailed pix please, i would love to do this

 

dang...i was on ebay and these clusters are more than double the price of the gsr's .

It def looks like a better fit though!

Vince

 

good luck with everything. Can not wait to see it finished

 

lookin good!

 

i'd want a higher redline,but that's just me

 

not many cars produce power past 8500 allmotor or FI'd and if you do produce power by the time you hit 8500rpm and notice/look its already time to shift from hitting a 9k rpm rev limit.

i prefer DC2 or EM1 cluster

*like steronz personally i would like to have 150mph 8.5k rpm and even sized more rounded cluster features then stock.

 

Nice writeup greg. I cant wait to see it when its done. I might have to try this, the same sized gauges is hawt.

 

interesting idea, coming from someone that drinks tab............muahahahaha

 

very nice... please keep us posted with alot of pictures and a write up so we can all be as cool as you

 

Nice....Can't wait to see how it turns out. Keep the thread updated so we'll know!

 

Old cluster Old Busted Joint

If you make that one work? New Hotness