aaaargh, i popped the needles off the rev counter and speedo!!!!

[Ryan S]

as title, was being really careful while doing the LED/Blue film mod (which looks by the way) but now my needles are all to pot, is the only way to sort them with GPS and fit while driving?? obviously the rev counter is easy enough....

thoughts please folks

[mrfil13]

I did this once, managed to find a long sstraight, sit at slow speed and fit. Not a fun experience and took a few attempts but I managed it.

[Steve-O 2007]

Just dont crash with that £3k BOV on while doing it....

[T.F.S.]

Lol, I done this myself.

I sat behind a lorry at 3am and replaced the needle to 56mph

[craig]

gps

[Steve-O 2007]

Lol, I done this myself.

I sat behind a lorry at 3am and replaced the needle to 56mph

how did you know the lorry was doing 56

[shinny]

OK, I did exactly the same when I first did that mod.

In the past I have used long, empty straights and a GPS speedo to setup the speedo, although the opening sweep of Stef's delimiter is also handy for setting up a 180mph speedo correctly. Either method will probably result in a more accurate speedo than before - but I've got to stress the importance of having a very safe stretch of road if you're going to do the GPS method, as it's pretty fiddly and distracting. NOWHERE near side-roads, corners, housing or children for sure. Doesn't have to be 30mph tho - a quiet, straight 40mph or 50mph dual-carriageway is perfect

I do have a method for the tachometer - it involves applying constant 12V to the tacho signal port on the dial and then nudging the needle round anti-clockwise to see that it settles at about 1050rpm IIRC. I'd need to post a video to describe it properly. However you don't need such an accurate rev counter, so if you know what RPM your car normally idles at when warm (noting that sidelights and aircon both affect idle speed) then you can probably just set it up like that. My rev3 turbo (with ST205 ECU) is at 850-900rpm when warm and AC/lights off

BTW, would love to see photos when you've finished the mod

[T.F.S.]

Lol, I done this myself.

I sat behind a lorry at 3am and replaced the needle to 56mph

how did you know the lorry was doing 56

They are limited to 56, a long line of lorrys all doing the same speed on the motorway at 3am is a bit of a giveaway.

Looking at a GPS and placing the needle onto the spindle I found almost impossible TBH.

[Ryan S]

feck it, replaced the speedo and rev counter with the old ones,

still blue so still looks cool

[Steve-O 2007]

Lol, I done this myself.

I sat behind a lorry at 3am and replaced the needle to 56mph

how did you know the lorry was doing 56

They are limited to 56, a long line of lorrys all doing the same speed on the motorway at 3am is a bit of a giveaway.

Looking at a GPS and placing the needle onto the spindle I found almost impossible TBH.

I dont think I would trust that as most I have seen go faster than 56... most people bypass the limiter with a simple mod.. but you havent been stopped / fined yet so it must have been fine lol

another way is AVCR / SAFC they display RPM and Speed

[Ryan S]

oh, i meant to ask, where do i get the delimiter?? does it go in the clocks?? i have no room due to the boost gauge or does it go on the back of them??

[shinny]

another way is AVCR / SAFC they display RPM and Speed

RSM does this too - in fact it's almost all is does! Which reminds me, I really must sell mine!

I've got one of these HUDs installed and configured it easily against GPS: http://www.speedview.co/ - I don't look at the stock speedo much anymore so don't care it's currently overreading by about 2mph

Edit: Darn, their website appears to be offline atm, so here's a camera phone photo from my car

[T.F.S.]

I dont think I would trust that as most I have seen go faster than 56... most people bypass the limiter with a simple mod.. but you havent been stopped / fined yet so it must have been fine lol

another way is AVCR / SAFC they display RPM and Speed

If you think that most lorrys exceed 56mph then you seriously need to get your speedo checked.

[shinny]

I dont think I would trust that as most I have seen go faster than 56... most people bypass the limiter with a simple mod.. but you havent been stopped / fined yet so it must have been fine lol

another way is AVCR / SAFC they display RPM and Speed

If you think that most lorrys exceed 56mph then you seriously need to get your speedo checked.

Typical MR2 10% overread?

[Nick]

oh, i meant to ask, where do i get the delimiter?? does it go in the clocks?? i have no room due to the boost gauge or does it go on the back of them??

I just got one of theses http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0884687270 Dunno if its any good or even if it works yet .
heres the instructions http://www.svaspeedos.co.uk/pdfs/toyota/MR2.pdf

[aj.extreme]

Did mine with the electrical delimiter/converter, it has a test setting that sweeps the needle to 60 and then 120 (I think) before settling to 0 on the rest peg.

[Ryan S]

oh, i meant to ask, where do i get the delimiter?? does it go in the clocks?? i have no room due to the boost gauge or does it go on the back of them??

I just got one of theses http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0884687270 Dunno if its any good or even if it works yet .
heres the instructions http://www.svaspeedos.co.uk/pdfs/toyota/MR2.pdf

cool, thanks for that mate, my clocks are in MPH though, i assume i can use this solely as a delimiter??

[shinny]

cool, thanks for that mate, my clocks are in MPH though, i assume i can use this solely as a delimiter??

Exactly what car do you have? And what does your speedo read up to? (110, 160 or 180mph?)

We've been discussing this on MR2OC this week - there isn't a great option now that Stef has stopped making his delimiter (which is the one with the sweep two or us have described above)

[Nick]

cool, thanks for that mate, my clocks are in MPH though, i assume i can use this solely as a delimiter??

I havn`t got a clue fella ? I was told the de limiter works as it turns you into mph then the limit goes from 180 kph to 180 mph . Other than that I`m clueless . I`m going to ask the person who fits my alarm to wire it up cos I hate wiring stuff up in case I balls it up .

[Ryan S]

cool, thanks for that mate, my clocks are in MPH though, i assume i can use this solely as a delimiter??

Exactly what car do you have? And what does your speedo read up to? (110, 160 or 180mph?)

We've been discussing this on MR2OC this week - there isn't a great option now that Stef has stopped making his delimiter (which is the one with the sweep two or us have described above)

a rev3 tubby, 160MPH clocks,