Hi! You have miles/hour on your instrumentpanel, but... I need to make it show kilometer/hour... I know there exist transformers for this... but... Do I really need a transformer? Can't I just not take the gearwheel from an european car with the same gearbox model ? (gearwheel - the part on the end of the speedwire) The Th400 trannys should all have the same parts whatever car you take it from, or? -Will it show total wrong speed if i change to a European gearwheel? Or do any company sell KM/H panel to old electras? :error: Thanks
Just a thought... Depending on your rearend ratio, you might be able to get a different speedo gear kit for the tranny. For example if you have a 3.73 rearend, you could install a gearset for a 2.29 rearend and you will read correctly. (Obviously if your ratio is lower than 3.73 you will run out of options really fast) -Bob Cunningham
Transport Canada issued all licensed vehicles a set of metric conversion stickers. This was close to 1980. placed the small, clear, round "100" sticker on your speedo at the 60 mph mark. "50" went on the 30 mph mark & so on. Rule of thumb take the kph & multiply by 0.60 top give you mph.
the stickers that steve mentions were not mandatory to be placed on your speedo dial. unless it is mandated that your ca requires a km speed dial, i would not bother with it. u might get a graphic design person to create u a km transparency that u could stick/glue to your speedo dial.
Might stumble on a car in a boneyard somewhere that still has the stickers. Was not long after 1980 that all new cars sold in Canada had the metric speedo dial. Metric in bold letters/numbers. Imperial in smaller print. New US cars have this in reverse with large Imperial & small metric?
The stickers look like crap, period. After a while they discolor and fade and peel. If you play with gears to get it to read in km/hr your top speed will be 120km/hr!!LOL Doesn't someone on this board own a silk screening setup??? There was talk of higher speed speedometers, why not do a few in km.hr?? That would be easiest... All I ever do is remember where the speeds are, ie 50km/hr is 30, 100km/hr is 60 (62 actually) and so on, not like our old speedos are that accurate anyway... later Tim
Correct multiplier is 0.6214.........ten more digits. Who can do the mental math on the freeway? We all learned using 0.60 & stayed with the flow of traffic. Tim R. is right, those old tags were ugly. Peel off after a while & leave the goop on the dial.
miles x 1.609344 = Kilometers kilometers x .621371 = miles I agree with Tim also. Silkscreen a new dial.
if i remember correctly, the speedo dial on my 78 omega was in km . we always used the old equation 1 km = 5/8 mile .
