Another build thread

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Originally Posted by CTWV50

Thought about changing my clocks too but sort of stopped when I realised you needed warning about break fluid, engine temp, oil pressure, and the ecu has a speed sensor which is in the clocks from the manual speedo I think. How do you get round all that!

Yeah, the Mk1 speedo is driven by a cable, and the speed pulse for the ECU is generated in the clocks.
Not a huge problem though as you can replace the cable with a Mk2 vehicle speed sensor.
The fluid level sensor is just a switch in parrallel with the handbrake switch, so that's easy enough.
I' not sure what you could do about oil pressure and engine temp. If you're lucky the levels might be compatible with aftermarket gauges. I plan to monitor them and light up one of the lamps in my cluster if they go out of normal operating range (or hopefully display their values on the cluster LCD if I can work out how to talk to it).