[KKLumina]

I've switched out exactly how you want to do it. However, I also went from a 2.5 liter to a 3.1 liter, complete with engine wire harness. The 2.5 had base cluster and "dummy lights" and the 3.1 had the gauges since it was a Euro. We were going to leave the base cluster in when we did the motor swap, but when we fired up the car, the cluster did some wacky stuff. Why? Because you're going from receiving signals to turn on dummy lights instead of moving gauges - ex. oil pressure, temperature, voltage. Anyway, had we swapped out the entire interior wire harness (NO WAY!) it would have worked, but there was a website that I went to which showed me how to re-arrange the wires from the harness to the cluster to make them work the right way. Where did I find the website? Right on the AF board! I'll shoot you a link as soon as I can find it.

p.s. my odometer readings were off... I just wrote down what the mileages were when we did the swap on the original and on the new cluster and just keep that in mind for reference. They were about 32,000 miles different (not in my favor either)