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speedster gauge project
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 5:31 pm
by t-time
Latest project finished, started with repro brass ship's clock housings and transplanted the guts out of a 60 MPH GPS speedo, made matching faces on the computer and voila - expensive(?) looking gauges. Good enough for me.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:00 pm
by BE_ZERO_BE
They look great. Where did you put the GPS antenna?
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:22 pm
by RecklessKelly
Thats clever. Good to have for tuning purposes and speed bragging rights. In my town, hitting the upper limit of T speed will bring blue lights to your rearview mirror.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:25 pm
by t-time
BE_ZERO_BE wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:00 pm
They look great. Where did you put the GPS antenna?
On the other side of the firewall under the hood former.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:16 pm
by AndyClary
Real good job, Mark. I’d steal this but I decided that in my speedster a Speedo in front of my wife was a bad idea.
Andy
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:36 pm
by speedytinc
AndyClary wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:16 pm
Real good job, Mark. I’d steal this but I decided that in my speedster a Speedo in front of my wife was a bad idea.
Andy
I can relate. After a fun day out driving I frequently have sore ribs later that night.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:39 pm
by Michael Peternell
t-time wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 5:31 pm
Latest project finished, started with repro brass ship's clock housings and transplanted the guts out of a 60 MPH GPS speedo, made matching faces on the computer and voila - expensive(?) looking gauges. Good enough for me.
Very well done! Don't know what they cost, but could be a great side hustle.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:59 pm
by BE_ZERO_BE
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:47 pm
by tdump
Never knew they made such a thing! thanks for posting!
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:30 pm
by tdump
Here is a less expensive unit.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235285383221?_ ... BMhvSWjMhk
Note this unit is 3 and 3/8ths round, a tad bigger i think than the 1 posted above from amazon.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:18 pm
by Hudson29
Do they make this sort of ship's clock housing in smaller sizes? I'm thinking that an ammeter in such a housing might be a good project.
Paul
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:28 pm
by Jerry VanOoteghem
t-time wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:25 pm
BE_ZERO_BE wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:00 pm
They look great. Where did you put the GPS antenna?
On the other side of the firewall under the hood former.
That means it's sitting under metal? It works that way, being blocked by metal?
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:34 pm
by Dan Hatch
What the mag? What does it do to the GPS?
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:01 pm
by tdump
I guess I will update you folks on how this 1 works a week or so as I just got a offer of a few % off the price shown so I took a gamble.
Re: speedster gauge project
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:45 pm
by t-time
Distributor and coil and the metal former are not interfering with the GPS. No magnets on flywheel.