PirateMcgee

Does the digital gauge cluster from a turbo 4runner swap directly into a non turbo? Or do they use different connectors and sending units?

iamsuperbleeder

I would bet there propbably the same hookup on the back, but good luck finding one

874runnersr5

That would be a sick swap none the less. if you could find one haha.

PlugItIn

one on ebay a while back...150 bucks, 200 BIN...

BoostedRNR

I've got one in mine. I'm actually gonna start looking for a non-digital one after I get some other major problems fixed. I'm interested on if it will directly swap over too. I really hate the digital dash. It's hard to read the tach and extremely hard to read my oil pressure and temperature when the sun is shining directly into the cluster.

PirateMcgee

I've found 2 locally for cheap..................

but I guess if it's hard to see it's not worth it

DupermanDave

why not fabricate a custom gauge set from an oldsmobile cluster? you can get those in almost any junk yard and most of the oldsmobiles have digital clusters (at least every one i've ridden in)

toylocost

I had 2 turbo runners. One absolutley sucked in the daylight. The other was OK and great at night. They are hard to read like Boosted said. And from what I've read it is a very hard swap to do. I would not go through the trouble. Its not worth it, I would rather look at the analog one anyways. Just change your bulbs out to LEDs if you want something different and leave it at that. My 2cents.

PlugItIn

I love my digital gauges...

iamsuperbleeder

I don't know if I would like trying to read the digital gauges... I preffer to have a needle to look at... in my eyes and mind I can comprehend it better...

besides, I just swapped in an SR5 cluster, and it's everything I want

Sushi

The digi clusters appear to be the same ones found in mk2 Supras, can anyone confirm it? I have several of those lying around and would love to convert my truck to one.

toylocost

I SERIOUSLY doubt it.

Sushi

oh.. yes after i found a good picture of it, they do look different. However I am willing to bet they use the same electronics.

abecedarian

Though they were cool in the 80's, digital displays are not particularly well suited to displaying highly dynamic, analog content like RPM's and speed. Yeah, you can get around some of the issues, like rapidly changing digits, by using a bar-graph type display but then you give up the fine resolution you get from a needle moving across a gauge since there are only so many LED's you can put in any given space. Also, the more LED's lit, the brighter the light, which is annoying as well.
You find yourself compromising accuracy, which causes the digits and display to change rapidly, with readability, which means the digital electronics samples at a lesser frequency so the display doesn't change as often, and in turn you find that you're not getting a real-time display of what's going on and are missing information... something easily solved by using analog gauges.

I just want to be able to glance down and see my engine speed, vehicle speed and maybe temps and fuel level and be able to interpret that as quickly as possible, and having to read numbers and think "is that too hot" only distracts me from the task at hand: driving; wheras a needle that points to a particular range gives me the ability to abstract that thought and make a decision based on relationship instead of absolute... "needle is too high, better stop" type of decisions.

toylocost

Plus Supras are 6 cylinder so if you have a 22re then there is a fail right there. Tach wont work for a 4 cyl.

Sushi

So has anyone actually tried this? I would really like to buy one I found, but without knowing if it will work or not I don't want to waste the $

toy4run

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f116...luster-129274/

Looks like your out of luck my friend!