Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
- GasDaddy140
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GPS Speed-O Look'n Good
Just sharing a few pictures of our GPS Speed-O progress. Yep, drilled a hole in my roof. The first one hurts. But afterwards you can drill more :) My 18 year old son is really on it for this work!!
Stay Safe!
Stay Safe!
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
- bbodie52
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
Is it really necessary to drill a hole in the roof and utilize a roof-mount antenna configuration?
All of my GPS navigation units have for years been simply mounted on the dashboard or stuck on the windshield, and they have had no problem with receiving GPS satellite signals. I don't see why a GPS-based speedometer would be any different. I would suggest mounting the magnetic mount GPS antenna on the defroster grill in the center of the padded dash. The antenna wire could be threaded through the grill, and the steel dashboard/grill can serve as a reflective antenna backplane. The windshield is also transparent to the GPS satellite radio signals.
All of my GPS navigation units have for years been simply mounted on the dashboard or stuck on the windshield, and they have had no problem with receiving GPS satellite signals. I don't see why a GPS-based speedometer would be any different. I would suggest mounting the magnetic mount GPS antenna on the defroster grill in the center of the padded dash. The antenna wire could be threaded through the grill, and the steel dashboard/grill can serve as a reflective antenna backplane. The windshield is also transparent to the GPS satellite radio signals.
Brad Bodie
Lake Chatuge, North Carolina
1966 Corvair Corsa Convertible
Lake Chatuge, North Carolina
1966 Corvair Corsa Convertible
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
Hi Bbodie52!
The unit was stated to work best when located on the roof, and I feel the hole was a minor alteration considering that I am this car's Savior :) You are correct about all the other options.
It works great!
Stay safe!
Alan
The unit was stated to work best when located on the roof, and I feel the hole was a minor alteration considering that I am this car's Savior :) You are correct about all the other options.
It works great!
Stay safe!
Alan
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
- GasDaddy140
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Holy Cheetos! It works!
Wow! The needle sweeps fast to 160 and then back to zero when ignition is started just like a modern car. It would be fun to tell cave-people all about it if I could go back in time, but then again it might be too much for them and they would try to kill me.
I'm also going to check in with the national KFC about whether the GPS speed-O unit utilizes any "commie" satellites to function. That would really disappoint me.
Buy hey, I've been cooped up and am losing my mind
I'm also going to check in with the national KFC about whether the GPS speed-O unit utilizes any "commie" satellites to function. That would really disappoint me.
Buy hey, I've been cooped up and am losing my mind
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
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Crazy Night Changes!
Holley Moley! With the lights turned on the white background turns dark gray/black, the pointer glows red, and the black numbers turn white! How do they do this?
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
- GasDaddy140
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Tel Tal 88MPH - Saves Top Speed
The day before I can see that my son hit 88MPH as a saved peak speed. I had a talk with him. With little traffic on the 101Hwy he took a liberty. I'm watching now. He said the car felt really good.
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
I don't blame you for wanting to set it up for optimum performance. Most modern cars come with a similar antenna on the roof now, for Sirius satellite radio, so yours won't look odd. If it's like the GPS speedos that are available for motorcycles, you may lose signal in tunnels, but the roof mounted antenna will give you a better chance of keeping connected.GasDaddy140 wrote: ↑Sat May 09, 2020 8:57 am Hi Bbodie52!
The unit was stated to work best when located on the roof, and I feel the hole was a minor alteration considering that I am this car's Savior :) You are correct about all the other options.
It works great!
Stay safe!
Alan
Your gauges look awesome. I plan to do something similar with the Corsa dash that I will eventually install.
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- 65corsaturbo
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
Awesome progress, love the look of the wheels !
Bill Y.
65 Monza Convertible
65 Corsa 180 (under resto)
66 Corvair 500 (sold)
67 Crown V8 (sold)
94 Chevy Conversion Van-Big Red !
Pittsburgh, Pa.
65 Monza Convertible
65 Corsa 180 (under resto)
66 Corvair 500 (sold)
67 Crown V8 (sold)
94 Chevy Conversion Van-Big Red !
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
Why does the needle read 91?
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
Hey Joelsplace!
Who knows why? My 2015 Nissan Juke's speedometer is a couple of MPH off. I was thinking that maybe a little wayward Indian satellite blasting down some phone-scam and scam email data may have interfered with my satellites. :)
My son told me he was only trying to reach 90MPH. He'll be disappointed if I tell him he only hit 88.
See you!
Alan Duquette
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
Rohnert Park, CA
"When in doubt...Hit the gas!" A.J. Foyt.
1965 Corvair Corsa (field find) Project
1971 Dodge Sportsman "shorty" 318 van
2015 Nissan Juke S
- bbodie52
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Re: Road Candy 65 Corsa 140
GasDaddy140 wrote:My son told me he was only trying to reach 90MPH. He'll be disappointed if I tell him he only hit 88.
Why the DeLorean had to travel at 88 MPH to travel through time. (Back to the Future)
Provided the Flux Capacitor allowed time travel by generating a wormhole to the programmed temporal destination, but these wormholes are unstable and only last for a little over a tenth of a second.
If the wormhole stability was measured as lasting only .10717 seconds then to move a car 4.216 meters long (A DeLorean) through the wormhole before it closes you would need to be moving at 39.3395 meters per second or 88 MPH.
If you are moving too fast then the vehicle would reach the wormhole before it fully opens. The front part of the vehicle could be sheered off, spaghettified, be delivered to a different temporal location, and/or eaten by spacetime krakens (or the whole vehicle could simply vaporize from trying to coexist in spacetime with an opening wormhole, who knows). Also you could miss the wormhole completely and be forever known as that guy who crashed a DeLorean into Twin Pines Mall right before being gunned down by Libyan terrorists.
Going too slow would cause the back end of the car (the engine of the DeLorean) to remain in 1985. Possibly large portions of whoever was inside too.
Regardless, arriving in the past/future without the front of the vehicle/pieces of the occupants because you were going too fast or too slow is probably a bad thing.
It’s like walking into automatic doors. If you run full speed at the doors, they won’t open fast enough and you’ll get a number of lacerations and a trip to a hospital. If you walk too slowly, the doors begin to close on you (when you leave the motion sensor range) and you get a concussion when they close on your head.
Now these numbers are general and it is likely that Doc Brown gave himself some leeway on the timing (Human error and imprecise engineering being what they are, it would be hard to determine if the car is moving exactly 88 MPH). Most likely the Flux Capacitor is programmed not to activate until the car reaches the appropriate speed.
Yeah, but nobody ever put a Flux Capacitor in a Corvair... or did they???
Brad Bodie
Lake Chatuge, North Carolina
1966 Corvair Corsa Convertible
Lake Chatuge, North Carolina
1966 Corvair Corsa Convertible