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Happy new year my friends, To thank all our loyal customers for another great year there will be free shipping on orders over $100.00 of Starquestparts. This goes for the entire site from bearings to cylinder heads. This runs from Jan 1- 2025 to Jan 15th- 2025 so get your list ready!. http://www.dadsengineparts.com Thank you! Dad

So he's producing them, with several out in the wild: http://greggscustoms.com/shop/product-category/starquest/

Happy New Year!

To do digital to analog, you will need a mechanical speedometer cable, an analog fuel sending unit (it has a green connector), and it makes it much easier if you have a parts interior harness so you can splice the stock analog plug end on (I have one if you need it), unless you have a different preferred plug like deutsch, weatherpack, etc. It will be harder to convert back to digital in this case, as the digital dash has plugs right into the cluster, unlike the analog which has a pigtail. But if it doesn't work, you probably don't care. I would buy the parts you have remaining (you will have a leftover digital fuel sending unit (blue plug), and a speed pulse generator that you will have to remove to install the mechanical speedo cable, DO NOT THROW THIS STUFF AWAY!!! I will buy them) and the cooked cluster if you want to do this swap. I like fixing boards. Be aware that it isn't super easy to swap this stuff; it does make it easier if I make the schematics

The technica cluster does not need any signals from the ECU. I can provide you the entire pinout and schematic that I have drawn up, although the colors may be inaccurate as I put it in an 87. It is currently unfinished. I converted my car from analog -> digital gauges and still need to finish the HVAC patch cable that I've been putting off, but the rest of it is finished and confirmed working. When this is done completely, I will be posting the schematics for free for anyone to use (unlike a lot of people who have charged for these things in the past). I can send you the unfinished one if you'd like

I hope you all had a wonderful day with friends and family!

Agreed! Merry Christmas (1 day late) everyone!

And it runs again. Must be a Christmas miracle. Or the fact that I hooked up the wire that actually goes to the fuel pump and now it works. I dug so far into this car all for a single ground cable. Then created other issues for myself when I tore it apart. But now I know it's right and I'm more knowledgeable about the whole thing. Now to make sure things work right before I tear it all out and put an LS into it 🙂

In my case, 2 years living in Ohio. I used to live in Omaha back in my early years, so I am no stranger to what kind of havoc exposure to salted roads can do to a car, but up until now never had a timeline. when I bought the current CQ, the fact that it had lived the majority of its life in Arizona made me overlook the first 2 years it spent in hell. ( read that: Ohio) This is what’s left of the left rear quarter apron. This is the rough cut after removing the lower skirt on the driver’s side.. Annnndd..this is what had become of the wheel well lip, all of which was filled full of body putty in an attempt to hide this mess. Ordinarily, this woulda/shoulda been on the passenger side of the car, due to its constant exposure of curb slush, but the passenger side of the car was “normal”. The tale of the tape best I can see/tell was that the car sustained a small amount of front quarter panel damage that caused a separation of the inner wheel tub from the outer quarter panel, and dude drove it through a couple of winters in Ohio that way. And give Ohio, Nebraska, Michigan, Indiana, or any other rust belt state two whole years to leave crud somewhere where a pressure washer will never get to it… Sweet home Alabama. fortunately for me is that I have modest metal fab skills, I feel confident that I can fix this….repair pics to follow.