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Old 01-25-10, 09:36 PM
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FL mechanical to electrical speedo

so after hrs of searching online i came up empty handed i want to know if any of you have done or know how to turn your mechanical speedo to electrical y have a suzuki samurai with a 12a and would like to get custom gauges and the ones that i find are electrical speedos....i found one from vdo
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/VDO-340011/All/
but dont know if it will work
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why electrical? just go with a mechanical (autometer, VDO and sch) along with a custom speedo cable. besides, who pays attention to them annoying things anyway? just memorize them crown victoria headlights and parking lights
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lol ok that is going be what im gonna have to do is go mechanical where can i get a custom cable?
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I want to go electro too but can not find a sending unit that will fit my tranny speedo socket, the reason is I have little room for a cable and I also have a tight bend radius where the cable turns into tranny.
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I'm using mechanical Autometer speedo with a custom cable. I cant remember the company that made it for me but autometer tech support was the one that gave me the contact info. Basically they'll need what car and year the trany is from and which speedometer you have and they can make you how ever length you need. If I remember its about 75-80 bucks for the metal housing and about 50 bucks for the plastic housing.

Check out Autometer Faq. I'm sure its listed if not email tech support even if you dont own an Autometer gauge they can give you the info.
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Try this
http://www.autometer.com/tech_faq_an...x?sid=2&qid=10
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i have the same problem but in reverse... i want to keep the factory rx3 speedo but im using the rx8 tranny with no cable hook up... i found something called cablex that is supposed to work but its a little too expensive for my budget right now... any other suggestions???
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i contacted this people
http://www.speedometersolutions.com/
the guy that works with this type of set ups was out and will be in monday he is going to contact me and let me know what i can do ill keep u guys updated
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Originally Posted by 73rx313b
i have the same problem but in reverse... i want to keep the factory rx3 speedo but im using the rx8 tranny with no cable hook up... i found something called cablex that is supposed to work but its a little too expensive for my budget right now... any other suggestions???
the people here do all of it hit them up
http://www.speedometersolutions.com/
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thanks for the link, I mailed them because I have a problem with my speedometer as well. The damn thing has an error of like ~40 km/h(reads 100km/h when the car is actually running at 60km/h)
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Originally Posted by p_rican
the people here do all of it hit them up
http://www.speedometersolutions.com/
Thanks P man will do!
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I went to my local speedo shop here in Orlando,fl since I changed rim size,rear gears, and tranny they needed the gear ratio and put my rx2 on the lift,spun the tires to 55mph then put on a box and now I have a correct speedo. I believe any shop that calibrates speedos can do the same for you locally. I paid 80 bucks and now do not worry about tickets.
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i bought the sensor they had it in stock it was 95 shipped this people know everything there is to know bout speedos
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