rm78mustangii

Is the speedo from a 5.0 different from the speedo on a 4 cyl car? Mine is broken and I have a 4 cyl parts car.

WhiteWindsor

The obvious is the 4 cyl has a 85 mph speedo and 5.0 has a 140 mph guage. Other than that i could't tell you. I am not sure what your asking.

raven_ghostwolf

The 4 banger speedo will work fine you will only just read up to 85mph. The 87 I know and 88I belive it was the 5.0's came with 85mph speedometers.

stang8689

87-89, and 90-93 are different, engine size only matters for the tach

rm78mustangii

I have an 88 5.0 and an 87 4cyl parts car. The speedo in both are 85mph units.

WhiteWindsor

What is difference between the 87-89 and the 90-93. I have owned a 93 notch,91 lx hatch, and my current ride is a 89 lx hatch. They all have 140 speedo's, unless you are talking about some other diff. School me.

marx91

the speedo head that the cable connects to, is what is calibrated different, either 85mph or 140 mph
as for the actual cable its self it should be the same i would think

tmajikman

the later 89 model stangs came with the 140 mph speedo. This is the main reason the 87-89 models need the 89 style 140 mph speedos, they changed the speedos in 1990

WhiteWindsor

Cool, thanks. Never too old to learn i guess.

raven_ghostwolf

The pre-90 speedo's have a "square" bottom and the 90 up speedos & tachs have a "notched" corner (thecorner over the column) it was a change they made due to the addition of the airbag system.