is it possible to convert the gauges from kilometers to miles?
06-08-2006, 06:02 PM
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Coverting Speedometer Help ASAP!!!! Hi guys im looking at getting a nbm 98 z28 6 speed t-tops with roughly 116,000 kilometers (72,500 miles) on it. A friend won it for me at an auction and its in near mint shape. Im getting it for about 7500 and its never been in an accident, flood,etc. My question is it illegal to covert the cluster over to american miles. Im trying to covert without hurting the resale value on the car. If anyone can give me insite i would greatly appreciate it.
06-08-2006, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by c4hybrid2007
Hi guys im looking at getting a nbm 98 z28 6 speed t-tops with roughly 116,000 kilometers (72,500 miles) on it. A friend won it for me at an auction and its in near mint shape. Im getting it for about 7500 and its never been in an accident, flood,etc. My question is it illegal to covert the cluster over to american miles. Im trying to covert without hurting the resale value on the car. If anyone can give me insite i would greatly appreciate it.
06-08-2006, 06:47 PM
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the only way it becomes illegal is if you go to resell it and lie about the mileage. if you want to resell it then you need to fill out a form and send it in to the state about old and new mileages.
06-08-2006, 09:00 PM
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I'd leave it alone, it's kind of a conversation piece, My parents bought a Chrysler 300 back in 79, all the gauges were metric, the speedo was KPH on the outer rim and MPH on the inner, the oil pressure was in (whatever the metric for pressure is), temp in *c, it was just something different about the car
06-08-2006, 09:17 PM
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I'd leave it alone, it's kind of a conversation piece, My parents bought a Chrysler 300 back in 79, all the gauges were metric, the speedo was KPH on the outer rim and MPH on the inner, the oil pressure was in (whatever the metric for pressure is), temp in *c, it was just something different about the car
just in case someone wanted to know...you can check my memory with some google searches, i'm lazy 
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06-08-2006, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
metric pressure is kPa i believe, kilo-pascals. if i remember anything from thermodynamics, 103.25 kPa = 1 atm or 1 earth atmosphere or ?14.7? psi.
just in case someone wanted to know...you can check my memory with some google searches, i'm lazy
just in case someone wanted to know...you can check my memory with some google searches, i'm lazy
trying to think what it was I was thinking kps
06-08-2006, 11:08 PM
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its not illegal in any way to change over. But heres something to think about. I'm pretty sure that the guage clusters (US or metric) are produced with the same electronics. The PCM is calculating the klics. So I think if you want to change over, then you might have to change something in the PCM, and then change the cluster.
06-10-2006, 07:09 AM
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06-10-2006, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
metric pressure is kPa i believe, kilo-pascals. if i remember anything from thermodynamics, 103.25 kPa = 1 atm or 1 earth atmosphere or ?14.7? psi.
just in case someone wanted to know...you can check my memory with some google searches, i'm lazy
just in case someone wanted to know...you can check my memory with some google searches, i'm lazyLeave it. Metric is as pimp as hell.
