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what about the AMG side skirts they are as rare arnt they ?

Update on 300Km/hr Speedo.

Apparently the artwork is finished but he is having problems finding the correct M-B Fluoro Orange colour for the 50 to 60 km sector.

Apparently it is not an easy silkscreen dye to find.

He said he has a couple of Silk-screen printer acquaintances and is going to ask them.

Apparently normal paint will not do the job.

Bill

bill,
sounds like a bit of the old, "mercedes heh?" = $$$ to me
will be cool to see how the finished product turns out!

Took a packed lunch, 2 water bottles and my passport and ventured North of the River (Bad Perth in-joke) to Applied Instruments having received an e-mail yesterday that the artwork was ready for inspection.

Here is a scanned copy of the rough printout they gave me.



The letter three in the three hundred they copied from the tacho on the panel I gave them and the AMG logo was from a scanned copy I e-mailed them. The layout was taken from the picture Nathan e-mailed me of the German car - good quality and good angle at which the picture was taken (He's turning into quite the little photographer)

I have asked them to do an orange 50-60 sector and apparently they are going to silkscreen it this week and I will go back and view it next week.

Bill

well i dont like to brag Bill,
actually, yes i do
im the bomb!

I see you're like me Nathan - modesty is one of my many strong points

Bill

Are they making you a new face for your speedo? i have not really been keeping up with this thread, as i am on the hunt to do this also.

They are making a replica of the AMG 300km/hr speedo and then calibrating my speedo when this is fitted.

They are aware that others will contact them and send them old faces/speedos if they wish to have the same done.

It has generated some interest among others.

Bill;

WGB, I'm still planning on this too.  Got a question re callibration.

I understand now how any speedo can be recalibrated to match the faceplate markings.  I also assume the odometer will still read correct without fiddling with the gears as nothing requires changing with that mechanism.  However, what would be required for the odometer to read correct if a 280 speedo/odometer is used on a 450?  To the best of your knowlegedge (or anyone elses), would there be a difference?  Cheers.

As far as I know the  differences between different diff ratios denote which speedo fits which car as well as the different markings for the gear change points.

The speedo needle is quite easy to recalibrate for different diff ratios if you wanted to but that would not change the odometer which is geared directly to the speedo head and can't be calibrated.

In my case I will be putting a new face on my old speedo body and keeping my old face if I want to replace it in the future. The odometer will remain unchanged so will be correct for the car. There are no shift points on the new face so the face should fit on any 116 speedo which will then need to be recalibrated.

I rang David at "Applied Instruments" yesterday as I was expecting to take my cluster up today and have the new face put in but he has had some problem with his Screen printing machine and has had to clean it - hope it is ready next week.

Bill

As WGB says the speedo is geared internally to suit the diff ratio which makes the odometer read correctly - and the needle to point to right number on the standard face.

If you change the diff ratio you will need the appropriate speedo, and then if you change the face the needle will have to be recalibrated (the rotating magnet that moves the needle is driven directly by the cable, the odometer is via the gears).

 koan

WGB, thanks for the update.  BTW, can we just send the speedo/odo over?  Do they do the speedo calibration part?

Koan, thanks again.  I only just pulled apart the 350 speedo last week at work to glue on the troubled cog that slips and reders the odo useless.  It took very little time and I didn't have time to take photos or prod around too much but I know what you mean. 

oscar, are you sending both speedos over to this place?

That was the plan but I'll send you an email later today to ask you some questions about what you want to do.

I am sure they will do whatever you want. They told me it was about $50 to calibrate the speedo with the new face as spring pressure had to be changed to allow for the difference in swept area between the markings.

Bill