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What happens when installing 220 mph faceplates on 186 mph Hayabusa
gauges?
The 220 mph faceplates use a different scale than the
186 gauges. This is because it needs to cram the extra range into the
available space. the gauge cluster has no idea the faceplates were
changed and assumes that point A (we'll use the max speed of 186 as an
example) is 186. When a 220 faceplate is installed, point A is no longer
186, but it is now 210. This is an equal percentage throughout the arc
of the speedometer. The difference is a linear +13%. The table below
assumes a 220mph faceplate is installed on a 186 mph gauge.
Original reading: |
Is now going to read: |
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25 |
28.25 |
50 |
56.5 |
100 |
113 |
150 |
169.5 |
186 |
210.18 |
This can easily be fixed with a speedometer
calibrator such as the Yellow Box
that we offer on this site. BUT, this is very important, the speedometer
and odometer work off of the exact same signal from the speed sensor and
is independently calculated on the circuit board inside the gauge
cluster to come up with the mileage traveled. When the signal is turned
back by 13% to correct for the difference in the faceplates, the
odometer then will read 13% too low.
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