Gauges

As a "factory standard" Porsche installed the speedo on the left, and then later moved it to the right in mid 1957 along with the T2 body changes, it remained on the right through the end of the T6 356's.  So to be "factory correct" if you have a beehive car it should be on the left and if you have a teardrop car it should be on the right... I don't know where it was installed on the "changeover" cars that were a hodgepodge of parts...

As for the replicas, yes, we chose the left initially because it was the best route for a stock VW speedo cable, and often times they stay there out of habit.  With our integration of the GPS speedo, we moved them to the right to be more "authentic" but people like to spec every detail and Ive had more than one person ask for it on the left in a teardrop car.

Sound like politics left or right

@R Thorpe posted:

Gordon.

I would like to try BBAA with a 4.43 R&P if only it were easy to try different ratios and combinations.

Go to weddle.com and their gear calculator. Punch in the numbers you like, then scroll down a little. There is a chart that shows what ratios to use with a different ring and pinion to get the same ratios in the end.

https://weddleindustries.com/gear-calculator

@chines1 posted:

As a "factory standard" Porsche installed the speedo on the left, and then later moved it to the right in mid 1957 along with the T2 body changes, it remained on the right through the end of the T6 356's.  So to be "factory correct" if you have a beehive car it should be on the left and if you have a teardrop car it should be on the right... I don't know where it was installed on the "changeover" cars that were a hodgepodge of parts...

As for the replicas, yes, we chose the left initially because it was the best route for a stock VW speedo cable, and often times they stay there out of habit.  With our integration of the GPS speedo, we moved them to the right to be more "authentic" but people like to spec every detail and Ive had more than one person ask for it on the left in a teardrop car.

Once again, we learn something from someone who knows the real cars as well as the ones he builds...

Good idea. I use the Spicer calculator but it can never give you the feeling of driving a car with various gears.

Great info and interesting. Since my car is a teardrop impression I hope Greg and the boys will move the speedo for me.  My brain and vision would prefer it there.

Geesh 45 posts addressing if the speedo should dress left or right, ask your Tailor too :~)

As long as the tailor isn't Joey's uncle on Friends, then, ok.

The only time I look at the speedo is when I see a cop running radar.  Other than that,  I drive back roads and drive by the big fat tack in the middle.  I rarely get over 60 mph unless I get off the sand bar, which is also rare.

On the 996, the speedo is off to the left and is about a third of the size of the tack. I think that's about right...or left.

Funny story, the owner of the previously posted green B took it to auction and sold it. He experienced so much remorse that he worked out a deal with the owner of a gorgeous ruby red C and drove it home.

Another “rightie.”

I am sure that more than one of our cars were sold and there was remorse after it, on the other hand sometimes they are driven as a chariot to get to the other side and others get to enjoy them, so far though none have been buried to my knowledge.

Selling a car you claim to love always struck me as silliness. Selling it "because you don't drive it" always seemed to me to have a more obvious solution.

@Al Gallo posted:

On the 996, the speedo is off to the left and is about a third of the size of the tack. I think that's about right...or left.

Same as on the Cayman, and the Spyder, gauge layout symmetry.

"Same as on the Cayman, and the Spyder, gauge layout symmetry."

That, or the Sainted German Designers got in a rut for a coupla decades.....  

I've noticed that its the water-porsches that have the gauges on the left and as we all know they are not real Porsches

@Stan Galat posted:

Selling a car you claim to love always struck me as silliness. Selling it "because you don't drive it" always seemed to me to have a more obvious solution.

IN the case if my friend, he firmly believes "variety is the spice of life." He's owned 5 Porsche's and a steel-bumpered Fiat 124 Spider in the four years I've known him.

He also has somewhat of a Midas touch. He's profited on every sale/purchase he's made. He's currently driving a 79SC that he bought with half the proceeds from the sale of his 356C.

@R Thorpe posted:

I've noticed that its the water-porsches that have the gauges on the left and as we all know they are not real Porsches

Oh boy.

@Gordon Nichols posted:

"Same as on the Cayman, and the Spyder, gauge layout symmetry."

That, or the Sainted German Designers got in a rut for a coupla decades.....  

Seven decades. Is that Mass-speak for "coupla"?

Yeah.

Let's just not remember the "Sainted Seventies".