Yes it does , lol

 

Kel,

No its not a bolt in swap. I'm sure you can make it fit if you try hard. Now there is a 140mph speedo for the 280ZX's. Are you planning on going to 160?! hehehe

Anyways on the later 280ZX's all of them came with 85mph speedos. When I had my 81 280ZX i would usually hit 85mph and higher but tach went up to 85mph. Now if you find a 79 or 80 280ZX they have the 140mph tach and that should be the answer to your tach problemo.

Good luck!
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I have a very similiar question,

I noticed my tach seems to have died on me, so what does it take to install an Autometer tach and Speedo in the stock locations?

Bill
92 GSX
77 280Z

 

Check your local pick-n-pull yards they usually have that kind of stuff. Alot of the time it works too. Unless it's a frigin clock.

What turns? There all straight to my Z

 

How the hell are you going to say that your tach went up to 85mph???

 

The simple think to do is run an ad on this forum and Zcar.com for a 130 mph speedo from a 1979 model. That is what I did and I got FIVE responses. I picked one from AZ -- totally painless. When I got it, I sent it to Ft, Lauderdale speedo for cleaning and recalib. -- since I didn't want to do this twice. The odometer on the 79' is a 5 digit, and my 1980 is a 6 digit, which I wanted to keep. Ft Lauderdale speedo fixed me up -- they put the 6 digit odometer into the 130 moh housing -- even had my original mileage put on odometer

Good Luck

 

What was the cost like on that?

Jamie Shelly
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The whole deal was less than MSA charges for their stuff. BTW, I originally ordered from MSA and they had me send my old one in. I did and waited 6 months, finally said send it back -- they did -- broken.

Seems like the speedo was $35, the rework was $125

GerryG

 

cool, thanks for the info, I have to admit, its things like that, that are making me really have to debate on ordering the MSA catalog

Jamie Shelly
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gerryG
What was the name of the company in Ft Lauderdale, I have a '79 5 digit 130 MPH speedo but I would like to have the same work done before I put it in my 81 ZX.

Vernon Z