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Re: Cruising just fine

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Subject: Re: Cruising just fine
From: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:37:05 -0700
Some (well, at least one ;) speedometer shops have a dyno for
calibrating speedos.

Palo Alto Speedometer calibrated mine, and installed a new set
of gears in the speedo when I got put a 3.54 diff set in my BJ8.


bs
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Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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Subject: Re: Cruising just fine


> In a message dated 9/16/05 8:31:25 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
> GSFuqua1@aol.com writes:
> 
>>Another idea for the hopper is to find someone who has a Speedo  Gun.  NO 
> NOT 
>>THE POLICE!!  Ha ha  Many schools now have  them for baseball, etc.  There 
> may 
>>also be a local speed strip  that would have one.  If you could find one 
> then 
>>you could make  several passes at different speeds as Mike suggested and 
> know 
>>exactly  what you are doing speed wise.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Another way is to get an inexpensive GPS unit, one for  camping/hunting is 
> sufficient.  It will give you very accurate speed  measurements (in a 
>straight 
> line, they get thrown off when you go around a  corner).  Then you could do 
> your own testing.  Pick an indicated speed  and see what it actually is.  Go 
> through the range and track the actual  versus indicated.  Works for me, and 
>then 
> you can give Mo Ma good  data.  Of course, if they can only do it by cable 
> revs, that could be a  problem.    Is it possible you missed two or three in 
>your 
> measurements?
> Dave Duffey
> 59 BT 7 project
> Paradise,  CA




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