Just bought 93 5.0 lx from sister in law. Perfect car except for stock guages. Is there an aftermarket replacement cluster that actually works? This is a virtually original car! Want to keep it that way! No cutting or permanent mods. Please help!
The carbon fiber gauges look awesome. I e-mailed florida 5.0 about the carbon fiber cluster and they said before you order this cluster be aware that there has been mulitiple complaints about the lighting being to dim to read the gauges at night in the autometer carbon fiber gauges. I have autometer water temp and oil pressure carbon fiber gauges in my car and they are to dull to read at night, autometer messed up with these. They are nice looking though.
I like the piece available from mc-machine. Its Aluminum, and they did very nice with the turn signals, and notification lights. They also build it to order, if you prefer only 3 guages instead of the stock 6, than thats what they'll make. I will be getting one of these with some phantom II guages.
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I'd go with the standard 6-gauge layout, and wouldn't use carbon fiber gauges or one of the flashy bezels. Just something like this:
Personally, I think it looks hot.
While I totally agree that the stock clusters are horrible, and I think the Florida 5.0 ones would be the best replacement...but...I wish the Florida 5.0 ones looked a little more OEM. At first glance the Florida 5.0 ones look super cool but for some reason it just doesn't look like it "fully fits". I don't know if it's just me but those are my thoughts.
See, this is my beef with the aftermarket stuff. They all look nice, in their own way, but they're not period correct fot the '87-'93 Fox body. When you see those gauges, you imediatley know they're aftermarket right off the hop. I don't want my gauges to jump out and detract from the rest of the interior....I just want them to work properly. I actually like the look of the stock gauges for the most part (although I have toyed around with the thought of white faces for them)...I just wish they were....well, accurate, with more even lighting.