Porsche 356 replica dash cluster from CB

If you're looking for new gauges this might be an option.

www.cbperformance.com/catalog.asp?ProductID=1324

Ron

Nice gauges...but, it looks like the Speedometer is kilometers-per-hour. Not many 356s had 200 mph speedometers. My VDO's upper limit is 130 mph, which is pretty funny, too.

kph is fine for Canada. All of our speedos are metric.
Ron

Metric-smetric. I still think in miles, and in pounds, and in feet and inches. Our government can take metrification and put it somewhere.

Bob

Great price too. If they keep some kind of stock, that would have been a nice solution when I was rebuilding my 78 IM and swapping out the original 914 gauges.

Yes, the English system is so much easier to deal with when doing important calculations. By the way, what is the conversion factor for MPH to FPF (furlongs per fortnight)?

And...
You know that the US is in the procedss of converting to the Metric system....
Inch by Inch.
Greg B

I agree with Bob. Even though the metric system is easier to work with (10, 100, 1000 (leave as is), (leave as is)), I will take our old system anyday. All building of houses (leave as is), (leave as is), is in imperial measurement,not metric. Also, the educational system is slowly taking fractions out of the curriculum. Just doesn't make sense. My 914 gauges read in miles per hour, and that's fine with me (it's out about 10 mph, though). Also, my students don't know their metric or imperial measurements...even by grade 9.
'Gauge' in Canada...is it 'gage' in the US?
Ron

Ron O,

By imperial do you mean the imperial gallon or the miles and pound deal we use in the US? We use guage here for instuments and metal thickness etc but I have seen the word gage used at times. I think the metric system probably makes more sense if you grew up with it but for those of us that learned the miles and feet measurements it is confusing. When I got out of the army they were just starting to introduce meters and kilo's etc. Never could figure out why they went that way, maybe to be uniform with NATO. Anyway never had to learn that, I was outa there!

Bruce

If they are good guality. I think Palo Alto Speedometer can change out the faces to MPH. I wounder if they are better made than the ones from Brazil and what sending units with them.

Actually, Greg B, the U.S. abandoned its much touted move to the metric system several years ago. The public resisted so strongly, the government said, "Fine, you win."

All I know is after Canada converted to the metric system it cost me a small fortune to purchase a metric screwdriver set. I still haven't managed to get a metric hammer...

Ron: Don't forget that metric adjustable wrench!

BD

I had a heck of a time cutting metric lengths of wood, until I bought a metric saw...now it's easy!
Ron

I might be wrong, but isn't the entire WORLD using the metric system? I think the US is the only one stuck on using the "STANDARD" unit of measure. People that grew up on the standard measure and later learned the metric system, have all agreed the metric system is the way to go.

But our drag strips still have the 1/4 mile run, instead of the 0.4 kilometre run.
Ron

It doesn't much matter unless your a certain government agency trying to get something to orbit another planet.....just a small conversion error and ooops "I think we just splattered that baby across the surface!!!!"