tyoneal:
I'd suggest that you check out our
Nexus line of gauges if you're not familiar with them. They have the black face and user programmable full dial warnings that you're looking for. Admittedly the speedo is still a 160mph unit, but the rest of the features are there, plus they have peak recall, user selectable display color, and full record capability. Warnings are user selectable for each gauge with full dial alert, if the warning is exceeded by 10% of your set point the whole display blinks to grab your attention. If they're not to your liking, we also now offer several Peak/Warn gauges in our Ultra-Lite line. Several of the Sprint Cup teams are running them currently. They're not a full dial alert, but the LED warning light built into the face of the gauge is bright enough that you're not going to miss it, yet not obnoxious enough that it's going to blind you. Other than that, we've got a couple of mid-year releases in the works presently that fall somewhere between what we currently have available in our Generation Two instruments and what you're describing, I'll post some more information here as soon as I'm able.
The 200mph+ speedos are more than a dial change unfortunately, due to rescaling the movements to make the scale fall within the pointer sweep area. If there are more folks out there interested in this, let me know what series design and size you would prefer.
Karps TA:
Thanks for the suggestion. The fonts on the larger tach and speedo instruments were designed to match from one to the other. Since the Ultra-Lite series was designed first as a race product that then became popular with street vehicles, the fonts on the tachometers (and later the speedometers) are larger and bolder in order to make them easier to view at speed. I don't believe at this time that we will change the font size on the Ultra-Lite products due to their prominence in motorsports, but I'll pass it along to our design team for thought on future gauge designs. Some other current offerings like Sport-Comp II and Cobalt have fonts that you might find to be less obtrusive.