Originally Posted by
Fox117
an xr2 dash is easy 6 torx bolts and old out and new in. the rev counter is slightly harder but this should help "The rev counter. You'll need to pull a cable from the dash to the coil in the engine compartment. The cable needs to be spliced into the green one (top one). fitting an oil press gauage and fuel to air gauge come with good instructions on how to fit.
Depends. If the car already has a higher spec dashboard (XR2, Ghia, 1.4i etc.) it will be ~16 hex bolts.
There were four different instrument clusters available:
1. low spec dashboard, low speedo range, no clock, no rev counter
2. high spec dashboard, low speedo range, clock, no rev counter
3. high spec dashboard, low speedo range, no clock, rev counter
4. high spec dashboard, high speedo range, no clock, rev counter (XR2 only).
Low spec dashboard instruments are smaller, you can't fit an XR2 instrument cluster.
AND: I'm not sure if the high spec clusters had the same wiring loom connectors (w/o clock / w/o rev counter).
If the connectors are the same, you'll just have to run an additional cable from the ignition coil to the instrument (when it's not already fitted).
To change the whole dashboard there's much more work to do. You'll need the complete high spec heater unit, the whole dashboard, the instrument cluster, many connectors and some other parts.