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08-17-2003, 09:21 PM
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speedo's
Anyone here have personal experience with Autometer
electronic speedo's? Are they as easy as they claim to calibrate and reliable? Thanks 
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08-18-2003, 05:14 AM
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I have been researching gages for my street rod, and have settled on AutoMeter. One reason was their website. It has a wealth of technical information on it, including .pdf files you can download.
The calibration proceedure for their electronic speedometer is very simple. When installing it you mount a small switch in some out of the way place. Take the vehicle out to a measured two mile distance. Press the switch once, then start the two mile drive. As you approach the end of the two mile drve, and when you stop, press the switch again. The speedo is calibrated. This proceedure is explained on their website in a .pdf you can download. I suspect the proceedure is the same for VDO and other gages. AutoMeter has been around a real long time, and I have seen them in a lot of rods that I have been looking at. As mentioned above, their website is superior to all others in my opinion. Vince
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08-18-2003, 07:46 AM
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I use VDO gauges and have for a long time. The speedo is very easy to calibrate, the button is on the front of the speedo and you drive a measured mile and it is correct. The other thing I like is customer service. I once lost a votlmeter right before a trip to street rod nationals several years ago, put in an old gauge I had in the garage and took the gauage to VDO's booth, they gave me a new one no questions ask. I have heard autometer is very good also, but I have never dealt with them personnally. Just my 2 cents worth.
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08-18-2003, 03:21 PM
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 I hate electric gizmos.......... I am old school and I use Stewart Warner. The cable driven kind.  A speedometer is set to turn 1000 RPMs in a mile.  It is simple math to calibrate the driver/driven gears in the transmission/speedomter cable . .
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06-15-2005, 12:58 PM
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1000 RPM per Mile?????
What do you mean by this? The RPM must chang depending on your speed - so 1000 rpm per mile at what speed?
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06-15-2005, 03:23 PM
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I didn't think I'd like an electonic speedometer, but my VDO is great! Another way to "tweak" it is to access a number, with that button that's been mentioned, which represents the pulses per mile and change it as a ratio to the speeds involved. Boy, does that sound confusing! What I'm trying to say is, if you're going 47 when the speedo says 45 and the number is 43725 (it's a number about that size, as I recall), then you want to change it to (45/47)43725 or 41864. (No, that number sounds too high! That would mean about 35 pulses per revolution from the sending unit at the transmission. Well, whatever it is, that's how you'd adjust it.) Last edited by BillyShope; 06-15-2005 at 03:37 PM.
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06-15-2005, 04:08 PM
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The speed has NOTHING to do with the fact that a speedometer cable must turn 1000 times in a mile. It will turn 1000 times in a mile at 20 mph and 1000 times at 75 mph. It just takes a lot less TIME for the cable to turn 1000 times....... .
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06-15-2005, 04:57 PM
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