V6 More instrumentation

I'm trying to keep the instruments looking the same.
I suspect the fuel gauge is wrong type.

The Speedometer will have to wait until properly mobile. A new cable will be made and then the speedo will probably need calibrating.

The choke cable was modified to take a new cable and outer cover but keep the original faded knob and mounting.

The cigar lighter needs new or cleaned internals.

The Jaeger Clock has already been modified by the previous owner to take a modern movement. It made the positive to negative earth conversion simple as it is in a plastic isolated body.

There is a lot of work behind the dash board to sort out the birds nest. But its mostly working as is. The Hazard warning indicators still work.

The horns have an added relay behind the dash, one of the horns isn't working.

The water temperature gauge sender doesn't fit in the Granada housing and the Capri sender guage is the wrong type.

The original sender (on the left - with minor repair) is roughly 1000 Ohms at 18 degrees C (room temp) and 130 Ohms at 90- ish degrees C (boiling water from kettle in cup - I don't have a suitable thermometer).

The Capri unit (on the right) is 1/8 NPT but still not the right size for the Granada manifold which has a spare M10 x 1.5 port.




I couldn't find any data on most of the gauge senders available for sale on most sites but Holden and Merlin Motorsport had Smiths compatible senders available in 1/8 NPT.
On receipt the measured resistance readings were close to the original. The instruments don't seem to have external calibration pots

I was able to re-cut the 1/8NPT to M10 and it fits nicely with some thread lock/sealer.

The Mechanical Tacho conversion to electronic is working well, except I have a zero offset issue so I need to open it up again.

Ammeter only for show - it had a vacuum gauge before but I plan on fitting a Voltmeter if I can find a Jaeger or smiths one (at a reasonable price).

Oil pressure connection was a bit hard to find.

The original Capri had an M10 convex connection which was hard to find so in the end I went for a new pipe and adapter from MLR.

Manual pump washer - may be modified to activate a switch for electric pump.

Engine mount also visible here.