Where is the milage held, on the speedo or the ECU?
I only ask as I’m going to change the engine in the car and have a VHPD built out of the VVC. I was going to go all bling and fit an AIM MXS with an Emerald but after a change of mind I’m keen to keep a Stack speedo with the Emerald. I’d like to crate up the original VHPD at its current milage along with the ECU and speedo unless the ECU holds the mileage… Or buy a second hand Stack and get it set to zero.
Mileage is held in the speedo on Elise/Exige. Only 340R had it in the control box under the dash. You would need an Exige dash, as the rear wheels are a different size, so the speedo is calibrated differently to Elise ones. Not sure if anyone has successfully reset a stack dash to 0.
Have an MXS, you know it makes sense 
It’s just soooooo much money John and I quite like the original dash. You can even read it with your sunglasses on
Oh, you’re so cool 
Many moons ago, when Lotus re-built my engine, I asked the question, the answer was initially no and when I pressed they asked Stack and the answer was still no apparently.
There’s some clever chaps over on SELOC who seem happy to take these apart and desolder lots of bits, maybe it’s possible then?
Not sure where you were going to find a spare Exige Stack - do they exist? (I know of the recent HK one but that was a real one off wasn’t is?)
I would leave them at their current reading and keep good documentation of what has happened to the vehicle whilst in your care (dates, mileage, work carried out, etc).
It’s a bit like trig’s broom, where do you draw a line in saying “it’s new”? The chassis will have done the miles, even if the rest of the car hasn’t.
Mmm…
My mate works for JD Classics (google them), history is everything, documented well, don’t zero it, just run the aim and document what you have done and for how many miles, it is not a new car, it is a restored car. They don’t zero mileage on anything they nut and bolt restore.
Ooh, JD Classics. I spend far too long on their site
Can you organise an exiges.com tour Ade? 
guy who i sold some old clocks to was an electrical engineer and I think he said he can write over the milage
Want me to dig out his details?
As mileage is noted on MOT certificates, there might be some issues if it apparently went back to zero or thereabouts.
Don’t think he want’s zero, what he wants is for the new clocks to pick up where the old one left off so it’s consistant.
Oh…I thought the clue was in the subject: Can you Zero the clocks…
ah yes there is that too!
but can you rely on jf to say what he means or know what he wants? 
I do want to Zero the clocks however that would also work 
Sorted. After seeing the KPH clocks on the auction site at £900+ I was put of buying new. A quick double check with B&C/DeRoure and there are 10 MPH Exige S1 clocks left at £226.59ex.
I really do think you will cause yourself more trouble in the long run come sale time if you are effectively “clocking” the car like this John. It just raises a whole load of other questions and if there is an “honest” car with the same sort of overall mileage forsale at the same time, 9/10 will pick the one that hasn’t got question marks over it history.
A great case is the 20 GTE’s Just been built. The development car had 8k or so on it before they completely stripped it down and rebuilt it with virtually all new components. Only things they left original were the chassis, bodywork (that had all new paint btw) and the original clocks. They could have easily stuck a set of new clocks in a said it was a new car but they didn’t. They used the original clocks with 8k on and then documented the later history of the car. That car has sold twice now in less than a year for what they were asking for a new one even with 15k now on it, what I’m saying it hasn’t put the punters off buying it…
I actually think in years to come the engine will be as valuable as the car, relatively speaking and I want the gearbox, exhaust, speedo & ECU intact to show this. What I put back inside is to be similar to what comes out but enhanced, I’m not after extra power. I like the idea of setting the mileage to the same as the current mileage. I’m just checking this can be done now. *Everything that comes off the car will be cleaned and packed away meticulously. If it comes time to sell, a car with this amount of work done, all the removed parts stored and its 50k VHPD may not be the perfect restoration but it will be a very attractive proposition to a buyer I would thought. I’m not after a quick sell btw.