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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ GPS Speedometer??
Posted by: Mueller Aug 3 2005, 05:46 PM
http://www.nordskogperformance.net/products/auto/speedos/detail/gps02160.htm
a little on the expensive side at over $500....
Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 3 2005, 06:04 PM
have you priced Porsche electric speedos?
('76+ 915)
that's in the ball park.
i'm gonna need one when i replace my transmission, but until i can find the one i want, i'm going to have to calibrate the tach from the GPS and go by that...
Posted by: Rand Aug 3 2005, 06:05 PM
That's the first one I've seen that looks like a traditional in-dash gauge. Cool.
I love the features in my handheld GPS. Speedo, trip odometer, average speed, top speed, maps, routes, etc... for a lot less $$. They look different, but can be mounted anywhere with a holder.
http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexLegend/
Posted by: TonyAKAVW Aug 3 2005, 06:10 PM
Officer: "Son do you know how fast you were going back there?"
Driver: "No, I don't, my speedometer was still getting a fix on the satellites."
-Tony
Posted by: spare time toys Aug 3 2005, 07:47 PM
They work good untill you go into a tunel or come out of a parking garage and have to hold on until it aquires the satelites.
Posted by: Mueller Aug 3 2005, 07:50 PM
| QUOTE (spare time toys @ Aug 3 2005, 06:47 PM) |
| They work good untill you go into a tunel or come out of a parking garage and have to hold on until it aquires the satelites. |
yea, but common sense should take over until the GPS comes back up
Posted by: Red-Beard Aug 3 2005, 09:19 PM
I bought the Uniden GPS-RD.
http://www.uniden.com/productsupport2.cfm?product=GPSRD
It bought it specifically because it has a speed readout. They are hard to find, but do come up on Ebay used, once in a while. Be prepared to spend around $200 used! Very accurate.
Oh, and for $500, you can get a very very good mapping GPS unit from Magellan (A ROadmate 300). The locate screen gives you direction, speed, road name, etc. I have it's big brother, the Roadmate 700. Virtually the same as the Neverlost units Hertz uses.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 4 2005, 05:52 AM
Here is the trick thing to do. Gut a stock 914 speedo, and put the guts of this in. Then it looks stock, but uses the GPS.
BTW.. I have been looking at this for months.
Posted by: Mueller Aug 4 2005, 09:27 AM
| QUOTE (ClayPerrine @ Aug 4 2005, 04:52 AM) |
| Here is the trick thing to do. Gut a stock 914 speedo, and put the guts of this in. Then it looks stock, but uses the GPS. BTW.. I have been looking at this for months. |
they also have less expensive model that is Speed only.....it tops out at 90mph, but I'm sure that you could change that if stuffing it into a new case.
Posted by: lapuwali Aug 4 2005, 09:46 AM
For a handheld, the Garmin Gecko has a speed readout and an odometer, and it's under $80. The only trouble with it is it takes forever (like a minute) to sync up with the satellites. This is a great toy to calibrate a stock speedo. I discovered by 912 speedo reads LOW at freeway speeds (65 indicated is 73mph actual), so I may have avoided an unexpected ticket, which more than paid for the thing.
The various electronic speedos are very easy to recalibrate, and pretty easy to set up with a magnet on a CV joint and the sensor on a diff cover stud. You can get a VDO that looks vaguely like the stock speedo and a handheld GPS to calibrate it for roughly half what these guys want for their all-in-one unit.
Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 4 2005, 10:59 AM
| QUOTE (Mueller @ Aug 4 2005, 09:27 AM) | ||
they also have less expensive model that is Speed only.....it tops out at 90mph, but I'm sure that you could change that if stuffing it into a new case. |
What kind of internal drive mechanism does it have? If we can use the speed only version, and make it fit the speedo cable connection on a stock 914 speedometer, then we have a way to get rid of the whole tire size problem. It would be accurate until you got in a long tunnel or underground parking garage.
Posted by: V6914 Aug 4 2005, 11:13 AM
| QUOTE (Mueller @ Aug 3 2005, 05:50 PM) | ||
yea, but common sense should take over until the GPS comes back up |
Common sense? I own 914's, I work on my 914's, I spend lots of money on my 914's, relativly speaking,
So, I don't think the term Common Sense applies, to me or any other 914 owner
Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 4 2005, 11:17 AM
| QUOTE (V6914 @ Aug 4 2005, 11:13 AM) | ||||
Common sense? I own 914's, I work on my 914's, I spend lots of money on my 914's, relativly speaking, So, I don't think the term Common Sense applies, to me or any other 914 owner |
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