bigbravedave
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| posted on 7/5/09 at 07:17 AM |
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Please recommend me a cheap speedometer
Can anyone recommend me a cheap speedometer, my car is fitted with one however with the std sierra wheel fitted it just obscures visibility to one
edge, with a small momo wheel fitted it just obscures visibility to the other edge.
as I've CNC'd a carbon dash out, moving it isn’t really an option so can anyone recommend a speedometer that I can fit in a panel between
the dash and tunnel to get through SVA, preferably not a bicycle one!
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02GF74
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| posted on 7/5/09 at 08:03 AM |
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how cheap is cheap?
rally design do one, electronic speedo so is adjustable but IMPO looks a bit nasty.
I looked into this and the cheapest non nasty one is a racetech, still around £ 120 or so.
you also need to budget for a sender, about £ 30 unless you can make your own.
an alternative is to thake the sierra instrument pod and cut it up - and place in you pod behing perspex.
that ofcourse depends on how much circuitry is interrupted by the chop; most of it I owuld guess would be ribbon cab;e that you could join up.
there are loads of dahses on ebay with electronic speedo - I lloked into this option to fit a speedo in to a instrumnet case i.e. 80- mm but mose
faces are larger than that.
I am sure this is possible, hard bit is knowing which instrument pod to use.
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 7/5/09 at 08:28 AM |
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these guys do some stuff link
They have senders for less than £20.
lots of this depends on taste. I went with a bike speedo, but IVA doesn't support them. I wouldn't recommend my route.
Matt
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blakep82
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| posted on 7/5/09 at 10:38 AM |
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i've got the RMD one from rally design, and its actually quite nice, its made by caerbont who make smiths guages. its identical to the smiths
guages one, and a lot cheaper
the problem with the RMD guage, and the reason why 02gf74 says he thinks they look nasty (i think he means the rmd one anyway) is becase they
don't have a photo of it on the site, but a pretty poor drawing.
its £80 +vat for the 80mm guage anyway. thats only £1 per mm! black or white face, i'll get a photo of mine if you want?
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