Anyone tried a digital dash in a 4th gen? Just wondering if it would work a i'm a Electrical technician student, and wondering if this is even possible on my 99 maxima?

 

You're the electrical tech, give it a shot man. Im sure its possible, its just gonna take some fabrication and hard work. Get to it!

 

A digital dash out of...what?

Anything can be made to fit anything, it's all in how much time and money you want to put in to it.

 

Get that HUD and call it a day over there!

 

Thanks i might try it, i just need to find digital gauges out of an earlier Nissan for the right price

 

You can get some from 240sx, but I do not think that everything is digital.

 

i wanna put one in my 1999 max

 

Some S13s have them,
HUD with digital number inside the speedo is semi-rare on Silvia's
Full digital w/ HUD is rare-as-**** for Silvia's, 180s and 240s
Skyline GTR (good luck finding one, let alone a parts-out) 300ZX (again, very rare).
Could look into aftermarket for any of those vehicles.

Dont 5th gen's have em ??

 

Check out this. You could used the arduino to receive signals from the ECU and be the brains behind your dash. Are you trying to create something totally custom or use Nissan parts from other cars, hacked into your Maxima?

I think a circular gauge face with LEDs along the circumference and a seven segment LED display in the middle would look pretty cool. You would have the precision of a digital display through the seven segment display, and it would be very readable because of the LEDs along the outside of the face. You could even use diffenet color LEDs in the case of things like temp and RPM, starts out with green at about 7 o'clock, the the leds would light up clockwise. once you hit maybe 6000, the LED would turn amber, then red at 6500, or whatever you like, but I think you get the idea. I've seen some curved led bar arrays before that I always thought about building gauges out of but never did it.

Here's a link to the light bars.

 

nissan NX is what you need to lok for in US... (this was on my list of things). they have a digital RPM and speed.. i believe... with HUD

you tube search nissan digital display i think there is one for a NX

 

im sure it will work I have seen one on youtube but it wasent a 4th gen maxima

 

o rhte old 280z .. has the digital cluster. .but its liek super old school.... looking..

 

some 3rd gens have them and HUD

 

that doesn't add up...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgaSzPcSOQ

i have 3rd gen Brougham Edition Maxima, basically premium version of GXE...it has digi dash and adjustable suspension...

u could try that and i think thats going be the closest match u can find.....since its a Maxima too plus u might or u have to change the fuel pump level sender too from the same Maxima or might play around with the electrical stuff to make the fuel level show accurate on dash somehow....

and no i m not an electrical student but automobile engineering student