Re: [AMC-List] front wheel speedo/ my 62 classic project

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another thing I've seen mentioned somewhere on the web now is using GPS signals for a speedometer! Now that's out there and what happens when you go into a tunnel or underpass?
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Glenn Ford <gcmford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Corvairs had left front wheel-driven speedo throught the spindle. I don't 
> think
> strength of spindle would be affected by drilling out for cable, if 
> practical in this
> case, but GM boo-boo'd and had after-market batches of cables made up
> (I found out years later) that were made with an opposite twist in the 
> cable.
> I had one of those, and it totalled the casing when it unwound after about 
> 100 miles.
> It snagged in the elbow by the wheel. I suspect there is an easier and 
> better way,
> probably with electronics, as Mark suggests.
> 
> Glenn Ford
> 
> >Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:46 PM
> >From: markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >This is true and we are talking a 1962 vintage car here, so you could go to 
> >a
> >front wheel driven speedo. I'm not so sure on the particulars of getting 
> >one to
> >work, but I know it has been done. You could also get an electronic speed
> >sensor into your adapter pretty easily.
> >--
> >Mark Price
> >markprice242ATadelphia.net
> >Morgantown, WV 
> 
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