Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

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Smallish update: I've been busy with the digital gauge cluster lately:

As I described earlier, the fuel gauge has been working intermittently with the voltage divider when I tried it two years ago. I threw in the towel, but someone recently contacted me asking about my efforts, making me retrace my steps. I found out there was one wire on the original connector that was working intermittently, so I fixed it, and now the fuel gauge is working!

There is still one thing to solve: when the tank is empty, the fuel warning (and level) isn't flashing. I suspect the digital fuel sender simply cuts out working, hence the digital gauge cluster is flashing when it's not receiving any input. It's something I can live with for now, but I'll try to solve that somewhere in the future.
I'm now working on creating a PCB for this and doing some prototyping with a conversion harness. At least that's keeping me from the streets this winter!

In other news, the Trueno visiting the dyno in October made it to the front page of the Dutch Autoweek magazine!


The article turned out very nicely!