Changing from KM to MPH !

[FlyDive2]

May look at a 98 OBW that was originally from Canada with a KM speedo, what would I be looking at to convert it to MPH besides swaping out the speedo cluster?

Many thanks,

 

Jay

[bheinen74]

Are you just concerned about speed, or speed and mileage counts?

I would just paint new numbers on the dial at the appropriate conversion to mph and be done, basically reface the dial.

 

Not a bad thing for when we go to the metric system.

[Durania]

Not a bad thing for when we go to the metric system.

 

[Mike104]

Interesting thing is that Canadians that import US subarus into Canada have to make the MPH go in KPH. There must be a pile of speedo units somewhen in Canada that read in MPH?

 

You could try this:

 

http://www.iaperformance.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=&products_id=2241

 

Here are some parts in salvage yards:

 

http://www.car-part.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?userSearch=int&userPID=1000&userLocation=All+States&userIMS=&userInterchange=C%3DB%40B&userSide=&userDate=1998&userDate2=1998&dbModel=70.6.1.1&userModel=Subaru%20Legacy&dbPart=257.1&userPart=Speedometer%28See%20also%20Instr.%20Cluster%29&sessionID=200000000000000000145701078&userPreference=price&userUID=0&userBroker=&iKey=&userPage=13

Edited March 15, 2010 by Mike104

[gbhrps]

Why bother going to the expense of changing the speedometer at all? Ever since Canada went metric years ago, every car sold in Canada has its speedometer marked in Kph as well as Mph. Its just that the Mph markings are somewhat smaller in size and inside of the concentric ring of Kph markings.

 

It doesn't take too long to figure out where the important speed markers are: 30Mph is 50 Kph and 60 Mph is 100 Kph and so on. Canadians have been doing the conversion for years. Every time I visit the states (just an hour from where I live to the border) I automatically make the switch to reading the Mph markers on the speedometer instead of the metric ones. It doesn't take too long to become used to it at all.

[vic/se]

Why bother going to the expense of changing the speedometer at all? Ever since Canada went metric years ago, every car sold in Canada has its speedometer marked in Kph as well as Mph. Its just that the Mph markings are somewhat smaller in size and inside of the concentric ring of Kph markings.

 

It doesn't take too long to figure out where the important speed markers are: 30Mph is 50 Kph and 60 Mph is 100 Kph and so on. Canadians have been doing the conversion for years. Every time I visit the states (just an hour from where I live to the border) I automatically make the switch to reading the Mph markers on the speedometer instead of the metric ones. It doesn't take too long to become used to it at all.

 

You're right! just the mileage count will be in Km

[johnceggleston]

swap in a MPH speedo head and you should be good.