I'm Marko and I've just started a company called SpeedView Displays. I sell a little gadget that projects speed onto your windscreen.
It pulls the speed signal from the car not a GPS receiver so it actually works all the time, and the display is over 10x brighter than the screen on an iPhone 4 so you can read it in the daylight too. (Don’t worry, it automatically dims at night!)
Probably the biggest plus for you boys and girls is that it’ll read spot-on no matter what combination of engine/box/gear/tyres you’ve put together. See here for more info:
http://www.speedview.co and harass me on [email protected]
I'll be asking to recruiting some test pilots shortly, but enough about work though - toy time!
Here's my mid engined turbo charged toy with 50-50 weight distribution...
It had an 8 valve pushrod carbed 2.3 petrol in at first, which did 15mpg, had 50 bhp, needed leaded, and took a shade over 30 secs to hit 60. The insurers wouldn't let me put a 2.5 turbo-diseasel in, but any smaller engine was fine. (I was 17 at the time) Any engine I asked? Any you like, so long as its smaller. I didn't ask twice! :laugh:
The engine came from a Rover 220 Coupe Turbo, big intercooler, boost set to 'many' and it was so small that the front of it ended up a metre behind the front bumper, and the weight distribution came out at 53-47 empty! Leaf springs and drum brakes, front and rear! :shock:
Tenuous TMF link – the reluctor ring on the back of the flywheel was one of Huw’s (minimutley) spares.
)I also own 1/3 of what seemed like a really really good idea in the pub. Damn you eBay for Android:
Ex Westminster long wheelbase XJ8 4.0 V8 sovereign with a few mods. 17 1/2 feet long with sills from 150x150x5 mm high strength square hollow section to stop it folding in half or twisting too much. No roof, for we are optimists. Will it be finished in 2012? The men from the ministry love it though. "When you bring it in for the IVA (Individual Vehicle Approval, as it need re-registering now) can you make sure its a Thursday or a Friday please? I'd like to make sure I get to see it..." "Are you nearly finished yet?" :thumbup:
The electro-cleaning might also be of interest:
Using electrickery to remove rust/scale/paint. Dead handy on the Land-Rover and (unfortunately) the Jaguar too. With a paddling pool you could probably do a mini shell fairly readily, though personally I’d chop out the worst of the rot then sandblast.
Small toy we made once upon a time: (spot the mini content)
And the sensible daily:
Still not small, but they cost about 20 pence to insure, the engines/gearboxes are completely indestructible, and they're an absolute riot on the B-roads. That's my excuse anyhow!
Hello anyways, I hope I’ll fit in and can be of some use! Oh, and if anybody needs a tidy late production sportspack looking after...
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Marko
More toy info here:
http://www.speedview.co/about
