Hey all

I was at the local junkyard and I pulled a couple rx7 dashes and it seems one of them has red colored mileage font and the others have white colored mileage font.

does anyone know why this was done or what particular models had this?



this is the car I pulled it from




and it seems all other S4's had white faces

 

no i have no idea

 

same here, looks pretty cool though, and +1 for rarity

 

The redish Orange was on all models and is the stock color to the dash gauges. In some cars it fades to light orange.

as far as the odomemeter the early 86 models had the orange digits

 

my 86 has white

 

I hope that last one wasnt from the junkyard, with less than 7K miles on it!!

 

Mine's white too...

Edit...My early '86 with build date mid '85 has white numbers.

 

my 88 is white

 

my 86 is white, lemme check my 88 real quick . . .
**foots steps fading them coming back**
yeah 88 has white numbers too, although i do have two s4 speedos liying around with orange numbers, weird.

 

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lol guess he didnt get the memo

 

usually found on cars with Orange display on the clocks as well

 

never seen an orange clock OR odo.

 

Does anyone happen to know (I doubt it) if this may be a rare item? or if this may have been something specific to a factory in japan, or maybe even a manufacturing oversight?

 

WTF? did you not read my posts?

Lets make its simple for even the engineering majors...

Early 86= orange clock
Early 86= orange digits on the odo

And all RX-7s were built in the same factory in Japan.

Next thing someone is gonna post is something lame like "gee I found out the 88 model had a blacked out warning panel. That must be from a Jspec right?"

 

Can't you ban people that ask stupid questions?

 

he probably has icemark on his ignore list, wrong dude to ignore man...

 

I think something doesn't add up...

All the 2nd gens I have owned have been early '86s, and all have had white odometer numbers and green clocks. Also other minor little things like the coolant bottle on the drivers fender, clutch switch bypass, etc.

 

i could show you a dozen orange clocks sitting on my bench

were any of your early 86's actually made before 1/86 (like as early as 6/85)?

 

interjection:

Difference between US and CDN models perhaps?

I have had several S5's, all had white numbers. My DD 86 (build date 11/85) has white numbers......BUT these are all CDN cars, perhaps the orange is a US thing?

 

could be... Canadian models didn't always follow US models and tended to be even more esoteric when it came to what came with what model.

Of course I have yet to see a 86 that didn't have Orange digits and a Orange clock. People tell me they exist... just never seen one myself

 

I think the build date on Tina is 5/85 or something like that. Maybe it's 10/85. Don't know the build date of my others off hand as they have all be crushed into cubes by now (parts cars...).

 

LOL Mark....always the diplomat.

 

haha. Ya I completly missed that.

 

my 87 tii has white clock and white odometer