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darcy
10-12-06, 02:43 PM
speedo reading wrong in my nova, its got a f20 gearbox an the dials are out of a cavalier turbo, any advice would be great
R1CH
10-12-06, 02:56 PM
The 160mph clocks have gotta be run with an F28 really as the speedo drives are different.
Saying that tho mines on a F28 and they were miles out, read about 20mph high !! Think this becuase the wheels are a lot smaller than they are on a Cav / Calibra, i ended up swaping the actual dial face from a std Cav so the speedo reads to 140 instead of 160, checked it with GPS and its pretty much bang on now, reads about 3 - 4 mph high.

Rich
R1CH
10-12-06, 03:03 PM
Reckon you'll be better off fitting some from a std Cav / Calibra, unless you wanna start swapping speedo drives & f*cking on with different dial faces.

Rich
darcy
10-12-06, 03:05 PM
thanks for that rich, ill be putting the 6 speed in shortley so ill live with it for now

darcy
R1CH
10-12-06, 03:15 PM
You'll still have to swap the dial face tho, 5 mins job, the face of the dial just clips on / off

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Rich