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speedster gauge project

Post by t-time » 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.
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Post by BE_ZERO_BE » Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:00 pm

They look great. Where did you put the GPS antenna?
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by RecklessKelly » Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:22 pm

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.
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by t-time » 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.
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by AndyClary » 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.

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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by speedytinc » Sun Sep 29, 2024 3:36 pm

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.

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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by Michael Peternell » Sun Sep 29, 2024 6:39 pm

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.
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Post by BE_ZERO_BE » Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:59 pm

I found one on Amazon - About $60

https://www.amazon.com/ELING-Speedomete ... 6JRWR&th=1
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by tdump » Sun Sep 29, 2024 9:47 pm

Never knew they made such a thing! thanks for posting!
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by tdump » Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:30 pm

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.
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by Hudson29 » Thu Oct 03, 2024 12:18 pm

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.

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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by Jerry VanOoteghem » Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:28 pm

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?
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by Dan Hatch » Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:34 pm

What the mag? What does it do to the GPS?
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by tdump » Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:01 pm

tdump wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:30 pm
 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.
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.
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Re: speedster gauge project

Post by t-time » Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:45 pm

Distributor and coil and the metal former are not interfering with the GPS. No magnets on flywheel.
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