Gauge and Dash Delima

35spline

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I have an 80 Malibu with a pretty nice dash and an Autometer Cobalt gauge set that came with the car. What I have is a 3 3/8 speedometer, with 2 1/16" "oil, temp, volt, and fuel.
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I am going to pull the voltmeter and replace with an AFR gauge. I am looking for any ideas to get a a tach in there. I am not a fan of the pedestal mounted tachs. If I get a 3 3/8" tach I would have to get a 2 1/16" speedo and move one of the small gauges to the radio/heater delete plate I am working on. Anybody know of a decent 3/3/8" tach/speedometer combo?
 

35spline

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I need to find the right gauges to fit in the current cut outs or find/fad a new gauge pod.
 

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You could locate a couple of the smaller gauges down on the right side of the column like I did:
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82wagon

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I'm searching for a gauge bezel currently but when I get one I may be interested as well.
 

35spline

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I decided to to keep all of my gauges and just move some of them to the center of the dash. I made a radio/heater delete plate and placed three of of gauges there. The EFI Source Gold box ecu is mounted directly behide the plate. Keeping the current cut out holes I added boost/vac gauge, a digital RPM gauge, and installed the gauge that came with my AFR sensor.
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