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Offline Murramor

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Re: GPS speedometer
« Reply #15 on: Monday,March 17, 2014, 12:16:36 AM »
I got the electronic speedo found on this page (http://www.gaugeguys.com/Smiths/classic.htm). It looks a lot like the stock speedo.

I have not installed it yet (I'm having my problems  :() but there is a guy on the lotuseuropa yahoo group that has and he likes his. It is supposed to be very easy to calibrate.

I have installed one in my S2 because I changed to a 395 gearbox and my mechanical speedo over read by about 100%.  The GPS speedo would not be suitable for me in Sydney because we have a lot of tunnels with no GPS reception and they have speed cameras in most of them.  Because it is a Smiths instrument it looks completely at home in my dash and it was easy to fit and calibrate using a GPS.  I used a sender off ebay which fits directly into the speedo drive in the Renault gearbox.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Auto-Meter-Programmable-Electronic-Speedometer-Senders-AU5292/190932903812?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222003%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140106155344%26meid%3D5543392758457889762%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D20140106155344%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D360830070500&rt=nc

The above is the part I used and with only a small amount of modification I fitted it directly into the gearbox in place of the standard cable.  Result is a very accurate speedo which works in tunnels.

Ron Murrell
Sydney


Offline 4380r

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Re: GPS speedometer
« Reply #16 on: Sunday,May 18, 2014, 01:27:07 PM »
Apologies for bad cell phone pic. My speedhut gps speedo. Not perfect but not bad. They wouldn't print SMITHS in Times New Roman, so it's block lettering.

Offline HealeyBN7

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Re: GPS speedometer
« Reply #17 on: Sunday,May 18, 2014, 05:50:10 PM »
That Speedhut GPS unit is very impressive.  I probably would have done that if I knew about it several years ago.

If you watch the video, the sales guy walks you through the menu options which include 0-60 and 1/4 mile timing... 

Dean