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Mazda rx7 320kph speedo
Has anyone seen an Rx7 speedo that goes to 320kph? I’m looking at a car that has one and i’m wondering if the odometer had to be replaced for it to have such a high speedo. Is it possible to just switch the part with the needle and numbers or does the entire odometer have to be changed. Anything helps.
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That appears to be an OEM speedometer. Is the car European sold originally? If not, it was replaced.
The Canadian cars had a 280km/h speedometer, but also listed mph in the middle. Japan was 180km/h. |
Originally Posted by AE_Racer
(Post 12422743)
That appears to be an OEM speedometer. Is the car European sold originally? If not, it was replaced.
The Canadian cars had a 280km/h speedometer, but also listed mph in the middle. Japan was 180km/h. It’s a car imported from japan. i was just curious if the speedo can be changed without the odometer being changed as well. do you know anything about that? |
Originally Posted by abroom
(Post 12422744)
It’s a car imported from japan. i was just curious if the speedo can be changed without the odometer being changed as well. do you know anything about that?
Is it a car that has been in the states for a while, or for sale by the importer? You can get a report on the car from carvx.jp, sort of like a Carfax. May or may not help you. edit: To better answer your question. The most common thing I've seen in Japanese imports is an entire speedometer swap. RE Amemiya, Knight Sports and others sell or sold 320km/h speedometers that were the entire speedometer unit with odo. But those will have the companies logo in the center usually. The other less common option is an entire cluster from Mazdaspeed or FEED, maybe others. |
Originally Posted by AE_Racer
(Post 12422747)
Anything is possible. I know there's a guy in the facebook groups that repairs clusters, i'm pretty sure at one point he said he can program the odometer. And if I recall from the big cluster thread here, it can also be moved from cluster to cluster relatively easily.
Is it a car that has been in the states for a while, or for sale by the importer? You can get a report on the car from carvx.jp, sort of like a Carfax. May or may not help you. edit: To better answer your question. The most common thing I've seen in Japanese imports is an entire speedometer swap. RE Amemiya, Knight Sports and others sell or sold 320km/h speedometers that were the entire speedometer unit with odo. But those will have the companies logo in the center usually. The other less common option is an entire cluster from Mazdaspeed or FEED, maybe others. The car is being sold from an importer on facebook. He seems to sell quite a few rx7’s and seems to be pretty trustworthy. His company name is Jdmautollc. If you have instagram you can check out his profile. He claims it’s a mazdaspeed cluster and that the miles shown on the car are actual miles. Did mazda offer a 320KM speedo as an option or maybe as an aftermarket option. It’s just the first i’ve seen one and I don’t really want a car with a cluster change. |
The mazdaspeed speedometers show 300km/h that I've seen. They also have the mazdaspeed logo above "km/h".
The only cluster I can find a picture of that is similar to your speedo, is in a car Super Street covered and it was supposedly made by "RE-Wing". I thought the euro cars had a similar speedo but I cant find any pictures of those. |
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https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...b320be40f.jpeg the supposed “re-wing” https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...2ea0cee75.jpeg |
Originally Posted by AE_Racer
(Post 12422756)
The mazdaspeed speedometers show 300km/h that I've seen. They also have the mazdaspeed logo above "km/h".
The only cluster I can find a picture of that is similar to your speedo, is in a car Super Street covered and it was supposedly made by "RE-Wing". I thought the euro cars had a similar speedo but I cant find any pictures of those. |
Its in an article showcasing an FD built by RE-Wing. Theres nothing else about it other than “The RE-Wing instrumentation reads to 10,000 rpm on the rev counter and 320 km/h on the speedometer, not quite enough to show the true top speed of the car, which has been clocked at 322 km/h”
1996 Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) - Killing It Softly - Super Street Magazine |
Mileage is probably incorrectly. All cars in Japan came with a 180 km/h cluster. Most people swap out the cluster without swapping the chip in the cluster to keep mileage. That involves tearing apart the cluster and de-soldering the old chip and soldering it onto the new cluster. Most people didn’t want to deal with that and just got a new cluster mileage. Only way to find out is to get the original Japanese Title and see if it says “mileage unknown or mileage changed” because it changed from the previous “shaken/inspection”. That’s what my title says anyways when it was changed to the 300kph cluster. Most importers here will say it is original mileage and fool you guys in other countries. Sucks but seen it happen with many cars. Who may I ask is the dealer/importer you’re planning on buying from?
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Originally Posted by Johnny7280
(Post 12424642)
Mileage is probably incorrectly. All cars in Japan came with a 180 km/h cluster. Most people swap out the cluster without swapping the chip in the cluster to keep mileage. That involves tearing apart the cluster and de-soldering the old chip and soldering it onto the new cluster. Most people didn’t want to deal with that and just got a new cluster mileage. Only way to find out is to get the original Japanese Title and see if it says “mileage unknown or mileage changed” because it changed from the previous “shaken/inspection”. That’s what my title says anyways when it was changed to the 300kph cluster. Most importers here will say it is original mileage and fool you guys in other countries. Sucks but seen it happen with many cars. Who may I ask is the dealer/importer you’re planning on buying from?
I was planning on buying it from a company called JDMAutoLLC based in florida. Have you ever heard of him before? |
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Originally Posted by abroom
(Post 12424679)
I was planning on buying it from a company called JDMAutoLLC based in florida. Have you ever heard of him before?
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