No affiliation but I know there has been a lot of discussion about GPS speedometers in our cars. I have not used this one but thought that it was a neat idea.
Pretty pricey....I just bought the VDO adjustable/electronic speedometer for my replica Speedster.
There's an electrical adapter that goes on the drive gear, then connects to the speedo.
Then I used the wife's Garmin GPS to calibrate it.
stateofidleness
Apr 11 2008, 07:51 PM
ive got somethin planned in this department going to outfit my car with a nice carputer during reassembly and one of the things i will try to incorporate is digital readouts for guages as opposed to the traditional round guage type
will update when i start..
for the gps part, i use a usb receiver and this gets fed to a special app on my computer.. this data will be output to a special screen (of which will be part of a screened gauge pod if you will)
Crazyhippy
Apr 13 2008, 12:22 AM
I have installed them in Boats, and offroad cars (wheelspin makes Speedos not happy).
Nordskog makes that one, and they make some damn nice stuff.
Interesting. I'd probably buy a handheld GPS and use it to calibrate my speedo ar at least know how far off it is and then have a dual purpose unit.
Joe Bob
Apr 13 2008, 10:46 AM
Yeah, I'm looking forward to the IPhone that has GPS, hi rez camera, IPOD and other stuff....oh yeah and a phone.....just one thing to carry.
That VDO speedo is nice, dead nutz on accuracy....with a retro look. I got them at egauges.com, REALLY discounted. The Speedo was only $115 as opposed to $200+ elsewhere, all four small gauges were under $150 total.
LOTs better than getting old ones redone at North Hollywood Speedometer for twice, three times the amount.
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