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    What happens after 85mph...

    Hello,

    Long story story, you have to go 90 on I4, or you'll die. So I was wondering what happens to the speedometer in the Festiva after, say, 90-100? Does it start clicking? Does it start to break?
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    1993 Ford Festiva 5-Speed - Festiclese III - Cousin of the Banhammer - "The Jalopnik Car"
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  • #2
    It'll just bury down... or, stop at the peg (I forget, without looking at my speedometer).

    It won't break... You'd have to be going pretty darn fast to break the speedo from spinning too far.
    Simon - pimptiva.com

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    • #3
      I think it would fly apart
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      • #4

        I canna give her anymore Cappin, she'll brrreak apart!
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        • #5
          What happens after 85mph...

          ...nothing, you just go various speeds of 85mph, some of which can pass people going 95mph that's all. :lol:
          Steve GT

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          • #6
            well I got up to ~135 mph in my old B6T powered festy and the speedo never broke on me..
            Ian Carr
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            • #7
              If you have a trip odo (tach cluster only) it just sits on the reset peg!

              But I've hear the matter/anti-matter contaiment sometimes fails at those speeds.
              Something to do with a software glitch, microsoft is working on a patch!;-)
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              • #8
                well at 88mph...

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by bmw330 View Post
                  well at 88mph...

                  lol, good one!
                  Steve GT

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                  • #10
                    but seriously when I brought my festiva home it was late in the middle of nowhere with no one around, so I wanted to see what she would do and since I have a tach it just stopped at the pin. I had a friend driving behind me in a jeep and he said I was blowing away from him at 90 or so. I also have a plymouth trailduster and I got the odometer to loop around to the 25mph mark, so it wont break.
                    89' Maroon and black Festiva LX with a sunroof. :alien:

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                    • #11
                      At that speed you will get a "Danger to manifold" message.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Ogrestiva View Post
                        I got the odometer to loop around to the 25mph mark, so it wont break.
                        on Festiva's can you cut the peg off in the cluster and will it go farther down? or better yet, cut your speedometer needle off so it'd clear the bottom at the 6:00 position. Would it even loop around?
                        Last edited by ejp2fast; 02-20-2009, 02:02 PM.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by ejp2fast View Post
                          on Festiva's can you cut the peg off in the cluster and will it go farther down? or better yet, cut your speedometer needle off so it'd clear the bottom at the 6:00 position. Would it even loop around?
                          it's on a looped pressure spring (I don't know if that is what it is actually called), so it will just keep turning based on how much force is applied to it.
                          89' Maroon and black Festiva LX with a sunroof. :alien:

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by spiko View Post
                            At that speed you will get a "Danger to manifold" message.
                            That's only after you hit the second 50 shot of N2O2.

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