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  1. badassdubs
    Getting closer. The delay in the tach and water temp gauge is from the wrong water temp sender. Soon to be fixed. Made my own gauge faces to match the van. Bright orange and ivory.
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    Thank you.
  3. badassdubs
    Thanks guys. I already caught hell from a few porsche people when I badged this. :thumbup: Built it about 8 years ago as a father son project. All work done by myself with my sons help. It has been in PVW magazine twice and on PowerBlockTV. It is no longer two-tone. I painted it nimbus grey, put in a rear mounted turbo along with a DIYAutoTune Microsquirt ecu.
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    I took the cluster apart and tried to go directly to the back of the gauge but to no avail. Looks like I am going to have to get an aftermarket gauge, gut it and put it in. The only issue with this is that they all swing backwards. My remedy is to change the gauge face to read full on the bottom. Unless somebody has a better idea. I hooked up the water temp and it works as advertised. Next issue. I can't get the speedo to work. I took the speedometer transmitter from a 944S trans I had laying around and hooked it up. Nothing. Tried for about 2 hours last night and finally gave up. So this morning I called three different gauge manufactures and told them the issues I was having. They all said can't be done. Send it to us and we will gut it and put in our gauges. Only $1100. meh So being the type of person I am, I decided that they were all wrong and tried a different approach and here is the result. 8 mph is as fast as my cordless drill can go. Almost there now. Just the tach.
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    I've read alot about the fuel systems regarding the 996 and all of their issues. Also about the calibration. But that is run throught the ecu which I don't have. There has got to be a way to bypass that and run it as a regular sending unit. The resistance is almost identical between the vanagon sender and the 996. Thanks for the reply. Hopefully this issue can be solved.
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    I'm finally getting to the point that I can install this. I'm ready to put the fuel tank in so I figured I better make sure the sending unit worked first. I can get the fuel light to go out and the needle will raise about a 1/4" and thats it. I was using the vanagon sender but thought that it might not read correctly so I obtained a 996 sendeng unit and it reads identical to the vanagon sender. It seems to be a faily simple circuit, so I'm wondering if I missed something somewhere. Like something needs to activated on another circuit, but I'm not seeing that. I am hooked to the blue plug. Pin 24 analog ground and pin 20 fuel level sender. Thoughts?
  7. badassdubs
    I put it in the dash to make sure it would fit and was surprised how well it fit. I'll post a pic of it when it is finished. Thanks for your help.
  8. badassdubs
    HA!!!!! I knew it. That was way too easy. Thank you. Very quick reply also. I appreciate that. A turn to the left for a few seconds did it. As far as the connectors go, I did find that part # but every where I looked it said no longer availble, so that is when I turned to my friend for help. Thanks again.
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    I was given a '99 996 cluster about 7 years ago from a guy that had a speedo shop. The cluster was replaced with a U.S. cluster since the car was brought into the U.S. from Canada for resale by a dealer. I just stored it away until I finally found a use for it. I am putting the cluster in an '80 vanagon that I am also putting a water cooled v6 in. After countless searches for connectors for this, I found out that they no longer make the plugs for this cluster. After contacting my friend who is a long time vw parts salesman, he came up with a number for the 26 pin plugs for a vw. A little trimming on the detents on the sides and I was in business. Acquired the pins and the crimper and it came to life. I know. Get to the point. My question is...can the electrical speedo be converted to read in MPH. The reason I ask is because if you look closely you can see the MPH display next to the KPH readout. If so, can it be done inside the housing or does it have to be done through the computer. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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