Anyone got one of those digital accellerometer jobbies? The sort that give
Under acceleration, at various quarter mile strips dotted around the country, ours was optimistic by between 0 and 0.5 seconds :) usually 0.2 (i.e. it reckoned we'd pulled an 20.0xx and it was really 20.2xx.
The secret is to take zillions of runs...
The lateral acceleration feature is pretty cool, except you may crash whilst going "ooooh 0.9g corner, that" and similar.
Used a vericom one (posh expensive thing) on my v8 sierra, to measure its
4.70 to 60 (and .82g peak) Used a similar one on my bike on the 1/8th mile at a tempory drag strip/runway at manby and it tallied to 100th of a sec (6.2secs to 118.something over the 220 yds) They can be very accurate!And disapointing when you find out your car that is "supposed" to do say 7 secs to 60 just wont even get close!
What's it called? Can't find one on ebay with "accelerometer"...
Varicom
Theres a cheaper copied one on
oooo where do you get such a lil gadget? how much? and how do they work? lots of wiring s*it to be done i bet!
I think mine's called a Gmax.
G-Tech is one of the bigger brands.
You can get em from the USA on eBay for £minimal - I've got one kicking around somewhere, but it's never been out of the box.
That's the one I have. They're apparently very good, hence I bought it - but it's never been out of the box :)
Is it you or Lordy that's somewhere round Notts way? I'll take it off your hands :D.
It's Lordy - I'm in deepest North Yorkshire :)
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