Why would you do that?
Is it possible to replace 200MPH speedometer with 300 MPH speedometer???
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I used the cluster. It is a direct swap no need to change anything. Well the miles if you want to. If you don't like to read the metric oil pressure and temp gauges you can put yours from the US cluster onto them easily. Now it will first start up in KPH but as soon as you press E/M it will stay in MPH.
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I used the cluster. It is a direct swap no need to change anything. Well the miles if you want to. If you don't like to read the metric oil pressure and temp gauges you can put yours from the US cluster onto them easily. Now it will first start up in KPH but as soon as you press E/M it will stay in MPH.
Anyhow i think it is pretty cool to have 300 MPH
even though car wont go that fast. I only have 453 rwhp but it is ok for me.
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St. Jude Donor '08
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haha i know the car only does 173mph or so. Even the Z only does 199mph. The new ZR1 has a 220mph but that car might actually be able to get over 200mph. Even the fastest cars in the world, the mclaren f1, the bugatti, the enzo, the CCR only go up to 250-275mph on the speedo and they actually can do those speeds, personally its a waste of time, spend the money on something that actually makes the car go faster not makes the car look like it goes faster haha you know what I am saying man.
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haha i know the car only does 173mph or so. Even the Z only does 199mph. The new ZR1 has a 220mph but that car might actually be able to get over 200mph. Even the fastest cars in the world, the mclaren f1, the bugatti, the enzo, the CCR only go up to 250-275mph on the speedo and they actually can do those speeds, personally its a waste of time, spend the money on something that actually makes the car go faster not makes the car look like it goes faster haha you know what I am saying man.
If you do the math approximate 180 mph equals 289.6819 kmph.
See, it is cool to have 300 kmph speedometer
Furthermore, as we all know, it is illegal to try this at home (on public road) but that's why we have HPDE.
By the way I did not know you have tried my vert???
Hopefully you enjoyed the ride
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Why the hell do you need chrome wheels, leather seats, or a cd player?
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
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Why the hell do you need chrome wheels, leather seats, or a cd player?
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
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As far as i'm in control of my FRC it is me who sees the speedometer.
There is not any sock in my pants.
If anyone else has ... I don't even care.
Bottom line is that this discussion is going out of its original purpose and therefore I just wish Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for help and partially great comments.
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Why the hell do you need chrome wheels, leather seats, or a cd player?
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
Quit giving the guy a hard time, it's his car and he can do with it as he pleases. Simply put, the 300speedo is a great show piece, and relatively inexpensive. Besides, there are plenty of C5's that can break well into the 200mph range (220mph or more). I think the coupe was stock around 186 and can likely hit 190 with nothing other than folded mirrors.
And I agree,it's his car thats the only reason he needs to do whatever he wants if he can afford it.
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you like the look of the MCM hood don't you?
well, he would like to have a 300Mph speedo in the dash to look at.
Oh, and BTW, I'm eventually going to get an MCM hood for my pace car.
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The Hood ACTUALLY does something useful. Read MCM's website!
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haha i know the car only does 173mph or so. Even the Z only does 199mph. The new ZR1 has a 220mph but that car might actually be able to get over 200mph. Even the fastest cars in the world, the mclaren f1, the bugatti, the enzo, the CCR only go up to 250-275mph on the speedo and they actually can do those speeds, personally its a waste of time, spend the money on something that actually makes the car go faster not makes the car look like it goes faster haha you know what I am saying man.
You need to take another look at your performance quotes, every single one of them except the stock C5 (173mph) are way, way off.
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I'd love a 300mph cluster!
I imported a car from the US and you can probably imagine the laughs I get when my friends think that the C5 is only capable of going 200km/h?
Ah well... at least I have HUD.
I imported a car from the US and you can probably imagine the laughs I get when my friends think that the C5 is only capable of going 200km/h?
Ah well... at least I have HUD.
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I'm french.
In europe we have the 300 km/h speedometer.
(for information I've already gone to 300km/h ... ). The hud stops at 299 ... then I have to switch to mph)
We've got a switch km/h / mph.
300km/h cluster is fun BUT WE'VE GOT A MAJOR PROBLEM !!!!!!!!
All my friends with imported C5 & C6 from the USA have 200 speedometer which IS CORRECT and match to the GPS speed.
Our european 300 km/h speedometer is ... 8% WRONG!
When I plug my computer to the odb2, the pcm is ready the correct speed (same as GPS, 1% wrong) but the Speedo is 8% wrong!!!
All european corvette have the same problem (french, italian, german), it's maybe the european laws
First Question :
Does the canadia speedo act like this???
Second Question :
WTF? how can I correct my speedo to have to PCM speed (real speed) ?
I want this see my real speed!
In europe we have the 300 km/h speedometer.
(for information I've already gone to 300km/h ... ). The hud stops at 299 ... then I have to switch to mph)
We've got a switch km/h / mph.
300km/h cluster is fun BUT WE'VE GOT A MAJOR PROBLEM !!!!!!!!
All my friends with imported C5 & C6 from the USA have 200 speedometer which IS CORRECT and match to the GPS speed.
Our european 300 km/h speedometer is ... 8% WRONG!
When I plug my computer to the odb2, the pcm is ready the correct speed (same as GPS, 1% wrong) but the Speedo is 8% wrong!!!
All european corvette have the same problem (french, italian, german), it's maybe the european laws
First Question :
Does the canadia speedo act like this???
Second Question :
WTF? how can I correct my speedo to have to PCM speed (real speed) ?
I want this see my real speed!
Last edited by Brice; Mar 21, 2008 at 05:31 AM.