Speeometer 80 and 140 mph

Fiatracertracer · Post by **Fiatracertracer** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 6:08 am

I've noticed that some speedometers are gauged to reach 80 mph while others are 140 mph.... why?

Is there such a difference in power for the spider?

howard · Post by **howard** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:50 am

at 140 a lot of stuff falls off

4uall · Post by **4uall** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:51 am

Exit98 · Post by **Exit98** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 8:58 am

Quickest and cheapest way to go faster in your Spider, change out that 80 MPH speedometer for a 140 one. There, now you can go 60 mph faster.

Actually our younger members may not know that in 1979 the geniuses at the NHTSA decided to protect us from ourselves by passed a law saying that speedometers on new cars could not go over 85 mph and the "55" was to be highlighted. I guess they figured that we wouldn't go any faster than that if we didn't know how fast we were going. It was all tied in to the national 55 MPH speed limit.

So for a while all new cars came delivered with them, even Ferarri's. LOL.

Two years later, in 1981 they dropped the law, but curiously some USA manufacturers continued to install 85 MPH speedometers in new cars. They probably had orders millions of them and didn't want to throw them away.

Fiatracertracer · Post by **Fiatracertracer** » Mon Sep 08, 2014 1:52 pm

Thank you.....

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