Yep, pretty normal for aftermarket gauges. Keep in mind the popular thing to replace stock gauges before all these full replacements came out was to adapt autometer individual gauges into the stock locations.
If you were to price out the individual units even from summit you’d have well over a grand in gauges alone. You’d still have to cobble it all together. Some guys made it look great some missed the mark.
Put into perspective a grand for a complete set that fits and provides way more adjustment than stock or aftermarket individual gauges is actually not a bad price.
Keep this in mind too, electric speedo stock squarebody clusters have jumped in price due to guys swapping in late model drivetrain that don’t have any provisions for a cable speedo. Even the 2wd guys want them if they want to retain a 100% factory cluster with the modern drivetrain. I’ve seen them going for $500 and up. Again it puts into perspective the price on the aftermarket units aren’t outrageous.
My ‘91 came with the electric speedo cluster and with a couple of changes to the drac module I was able to calibrate the speedo for 35” tires and 4.10 gearing. It’s dead nuts accurate to GPS when I check it too.
What the LS swap crowd forgets is the stock cluster can still monitor oil pressure and coolant temp. They think it can’t and they end up buying aftermarket complete units. The thing is the stock cluster can do it. It did with my LS swap and when I swapped out the LS for an 8.1. I ran a second coolant temp sender for the cluster and one for the pcm. Oil pressure was easy just using the stock sender in the block. The 5.3 posed a little challenge as the stock small block sender is SAE pipe thread and the LS is a smaller metric size. I gambled and had a buddy turn down the stock ‘91 sender on a lathe, thread it with the correct metric die and it screwed into the head like factory. The 8.1 has the same size sae hole as a small block so I went back to the oem sender unmodified.
I’m just pointing that out to show one can use a stock cluster if they want/need to. If you want a new cluster with all the new tech and features that’s cool too. Just expect to spend some coin on them.
