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    PCM differences: metric vs imperial

    I just changed gears from 3.08's to 3.42's and swapped in a pcm from Keith's old car... my shift points are bang on, but my mph is reading about 10% off at 100kph(i'm in Canada).

    Anyways, a buddy of mine and I were talking about this and now thinking that i've put a pcm from a non-metric car into my metric car and my needle is actually correct, but for an american car with an american guage cluster... :(

    So, i have 2 questions... am i correct in this theory? And 2, is my odometer now turning over miles? not kilometers?

    thanks [img]smile.gif[/img]
    1997 silver Camaro RS<br />|T-Type Powered|<br /><a href=\"http://www.kwfbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for a local F-Body club in K/W, Ontario, Canada?</a>
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    is the speedo needle keyed? like could you say remove the needle, have someone pace you, and when you're doing 100km/h, jam the needle into place, so it'd be reading 100km/h. of course that wouldn't work if it was keyed......

    --matt

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    • #3
      no one? :(
      i really want to know if i'm reading miles on my odometer now instead of kilometers.. the speedo being out doesn't bother me as much...
      1997 silver Camaro RS<br />|T-Type Powered|<br /><a href=\"http://www.kwfbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for a local F-Body club in K/W, Ontario, Canada?</a>

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        Don't remove the needle and stuff. Just have some one follow you for a few Kms then compare your trip to their trip. Does that make sense?
        Your sig is the most important part of your message. Make sure that you list EVERY single thing that you have done to your car so that we can all go \'oooh!\' and \'Ah!\'. Please make your sig consistently longer than anything else you post. Please include your lengthy sig with EVERY single post you make during a reply, even if you only reply with a monosyllable grunt.

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        • #5
          <blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Ike:
          Don't remove the needle and stuff. Just have some one follow you for a few Kms then compare your trip to their trip. Does that make sense?<hr></blockquote>


          Yeah that would work for the miles vs kilometers part...
          [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]
          1997 silver Camaro RS<br />|T-Type Powered|<br /><a href=\"http://www.kwfbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for a local F-Body club in K/W, Ontario, Canada?</a>

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          • #6
            bump [img]smile.gif[/img]
            1997 silver Camaro RS<br />|T-Type Powered|<br /><a href=\"http://www.kwfbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for a local F-Body club in K/W, Ontario, Canada?</a>

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            • #7
              Okay, new information...

              I"ve leanred that my imperial PCM reads MPH on the speedo, BUT the tripometer and odometer are still reading Kilometers Per Hour... This is good [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

              What i'm thinking now is either swapping a guage cluster from a US car to get MPH along the top outter ring on the speedo, and/or getting white faced guage overlay for a US car.

              The only problem with the last option is that the clear spaces that light goes through won't perfectly match up...

              BTW: Keith, this has turned into a general tech issue, so you can move it :D
              1997 silver Camaro RS<br />|T-Type Powered|<br /><a href=\"http://www.kwfbody.com\" target=\"_blank\">Looking for a local F-Body club in K/W, Ontario, Canada?</a>

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