Performance Timer Accelerometers???
08-16-2003, 01:28 AM
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Performance Timer Accelerometers???
Anyone use any of these?
http://www.beltronics.com/fx.html
Just curious if anyone has used them at the track and seen how close they come to accurate times and such? My friend back in Vegas says his is pretty damn close and he uses it for practice a lot. Says "no installation"? What the hell? It can measure speed, 1/4 mile and such without installation? Wierd.
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http://www.beltronics.com/fx.html
Just curious if anyone has used them at the track and seen how close they come to accurate times and such? My friend back in Vegas says his is pretty damn close and he uses it for practice a lot. Says "no installation"? What the hell? It can measure speed, 1/4 mile and such without installation? Wierd.
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08-16-2003, 01:54 AM
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Originally posted by notenoughboost
all you have to do is plug it into the cigarette lighter.
all you have to do is plug it into the cigarette lighter.
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It was uncanny in it's accuracy. I'd say it's within a tenth or so of 1/4 mile time... MPH was 3-4mph different, but it was a great gauge of change in performance...
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Originally posted by IS2Scooby
It was uncanny in it's accuracy. I'd say it's within a tenth or so of 1/4 mile time... MPH was 3-4mph different, but it was a great gauge of change in performance...
It was uncanny in it's accuracy. I'd say it's within a tenth or so of 1/4 mile time... MPH was 3-4mph different, but it was a great gauge of change in performance...
08-16-2003, 02:23 AM
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Why not just go to the track for $8? 
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08-16-2003, 02:28 AM
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Originally posted by IS2Scooby
Why not just go to the track for $8?
Why not just go to the track for $8?
I will one of these days. Just still know I will make a complete idiot of myself. Need to hit a Wednesday or something when less people are there... I have practiced launches and I suck so bad its ashame. I feel like giving my keys to the next person I see.
Im used to the more forgiving nature of RWD and just feel more comfortable launching hard with RWD. Oh well.
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Just let me drive you car for ya.
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Originally posted by IS2Scooby
Just let me drive you car for ya.
Just let me drive you car for ya.
Once I do get out there I would like someone else to run it to see what its capable of. Interested?
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You should get Wes to drive. He's an animal.
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Originally posted by DaveWRX
Im a puss...
I will one of these days. Just still know I will make a complete idiot of myself. Need to hit a Wednesday or something when less people are there...
Im a puss...
I will one of these days. Just still know I will make a complete idiot of myself. Need to hit a Wednesday or something when less people are there...
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Originally posted by kawshon1
practice at the track, not on the streets
practice at the track, not on the streets
I figure as long as I'm driving like a maniac but not against anybody (read: some 18 yr old in a 1987 CVCC), everybody's safe.
Yeah, I've got one of those G-techs. the $250 version. Sometime here in the next week, me and Dan will take it down to the gulch on his car. It is pretty damn accurate, but you have to really bend over backwards to make sure it's calibrated correctly.
