140 MPH speedo

[tarafied1]

Thanks again janschutz (John) for the awesome white elephant gift. I finally put it in!!!

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[janschutz]

Looks great! We all know you need that extra 20 mph.

 

[cmayna]

My problem is how the heck are you going to get even near 140mph, with a gas gauge reading so low.

 

[tarafied1]

My problem is how the heck are you going to get even near 140mph, with a gas gauge reading so low.

I have just enough to get to 149, then I coast...

 

[JRANGER]

those looks awesome! What gauges are those?

 

[tarafied1]

those looks awesome! What gauges are those?

the gauges are original Ford parts. I put a tachometer in from a 67 Cougar and it didn't match the Mustang faces. I bought a white face overlay kit on eBay and changed them all. Then the clock was replaced with a 68 Mustang oil pressure gauge (the 67 and 68 flip flopped the oil pressure and fuel gauges for some reason). I did that because I gave the two gauges where the Tach went, one being the oil pressure gauge. Then John gave me the 140 mph speedo to replace my 120, he had the "Tachman" convert it.

 

[tarafied1]

Here are some pictures from the process of me putting in a factory tach. I bought a 67 Cougar tach cluster on ebay for $45. The Cougar cluster depth was different than the Stang. I had to make the "cup" deeper. As I mentioned, I also put a 68 oil pressure gauge in the where the clock was. The 67 had the oil pressure in the large cluster and in 68 they switched it with the fuel gauge. Since I gave up the oil pressure gauge for the tach I thought it would be good to add the 68 gauge. I don't have an amp gauge yet.

I also changed the bulb covers from blue/green to red/orange