converting EA instrument cluster to EJ

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:15 pm

Hi Team,

So far so good, and thanyou all for your help. It has certainly helped my project come along a little quicker.

I was hoping to swap the old brumby instrument cluster for the instrument cluster out of the imprezza.

I am assuming this is possible?

At this point i have the two side by side and have dismantled them and it looks like it will work but it looks like i need to cut up a bit of the facia on the brumby cluster.

Can someone confirm with photos?

cheers

dwayneb · Post by **dwayneb** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:03 am

I think Outback bloke did this conversion in to the Red Brumby, not sure though..

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:29 pm

think if you search member daniel of spring of rising sun steve or is it steve rising sun,you will find he has done just that job with pictures

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:50 pm

Yeah did a fairly extensive search but still havent found anything yet.

Anyone out there?

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:29 am

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It was SVX cluster to match the engine, sorry I got it wrong. Think someone else did one Impreza to Brumby dash

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:14 pm

So,

sorry to keep going on this, but trawling through images i had in my computer, i knew i had one somewhere that showed a converted instrument cluster.

This i think is of a member known as stinky, who had a blue brumby.

Does anyone want to help me discover how he completed this conversion? The plastic surround he has used on the instrument cluster is not a standard MY surround, maybe jap spec something! Any help?

Point · Post by **Point** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:10 pm

i'm halfway done with mine, although i'm using a liberty cluster. the shape of the glass matches the surround fairly well, but it obscures the indicators at the top. you can just see the edge of the glass in the top corners though. i want to try heating the surround so i can shape it, but i don't intend on getting it perfect. i have put the liberty column in with the combination switch and this hits the bumps on the surround where the headlight/wiper switches were. i'm going to cut them off and maybe glue in some filler pieces.

Thalass · Post by **Thalass** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:41 pm

So you're trying to put the instruments from the Impreza into the Brumby dash? Or installing the dash as a whole?

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:53 am

Thalass as you can see in the picture, is only the instrument cluster and the surround.

There was obviously a model once upon a time that had a different surround on an MY that fitted a imp or lib instrument cluster in it.

So am keen to know where the surround is from

Rocksy · Post by **Rocksy** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:49 pm

I'm pretty keen to hear if anyone has done a complete dash transfer

The only thing stopping me doing a Brumby/WRX conversion is the dash.

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:22 am

Rocksy,

do a bit of a search and you will find that a couple of people have done this. By the sounds of it, its not worth the hassel. Look in My car, and restorations and build ups. I would like to fit the whole dash but the converting would be far to time costly for me to bother.

Hence im only trying for the instrument cluster.

good luck

Rocksy · Post by **Rocksy** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:19 pm

thanks mate, i did actually find some stuff lastnight, but it's always good to hear it from the horses mouth.

I have nothing but time, the dash a massive part of what i want to do, because i want twin LCD screens in the dash for my carputer, and the wrx and gen 2 foresters dash is pretty much the best dash out there for carputers.

SUBIIE · Post by **SUBIIE** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:46 am

Awesome,

will look really good when it is done.

Lucky you with heaps of time on your hands. Every job i have done so far on the project has taken me several hours to complete, e.g. modified steering column.

good luck

Rocksy · Post by **Rocksy** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:59 pm

seems i may need a ute a lot quicker than i'd prefer.

If someone was to cut the firewall and back to the tranny hole out of a rusting Brumby, and mount it to a frame, they could work on fitting a Modern dash into a brumby whenever they wanted, and just install it after it fit perfectly.