Iv never hit a penguin in the face with a casserole
Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:14 PM
Anyone fitted a trip in to there mini so they can rest there milage they do before trips and what not? Its something I would quite like to fit for navigational rallies and that general type of thing.
What ones can you buy and how easy to fit are they?
Anyone got any recommendations or pics of one fitted to there car?
Cheers.
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 21 December 2014 - 11:22 PM
Brantz International 2 is a popular trip meter with twin read-outs. Price is c.£185, so not expensive really.
There are 'period' mechanical ones (Halda Tripmaster/Twinmaster, but they are expensive).
Edited by Cooperman, 21 December 2014 - 11:26 PM.
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 22 December 2014 - 02:04 AM
I've seen them done from Jag and MGB Speedos, if you don't mind doing fine work, this maybe an option.
This one a mate of mine did from a Jag Speedo
They were briefly available from the factory in the very early days
In one of my own Cars, I just fitted an electronic speedo, which has a re-setable Trip Meter.
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 22 December 2014 - 05:50 PM
For historic road rallies in this country you need a trip meter with large read-out, a twin display and the ability to calibrate it to around 0.5%.
That's why Brantz are popular as they are not expensive and work really well. They are easy to fit and easy to calibrate.
Highly recommended.
Iv never hit a penguin in the face with a casserole
Posted 22 December 2014 - 06:09 PM
Awesome cheers guys! How do they fit? Guessing you have to connect them to the speedo drive somehow?
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 22 December 2014 - 07:39 PM
For historic road rallies in this country you need a trip meter with large read-out, a twin display and the ability to calibrate it to around 0.5%.
That's why Brantz are popular as they are not expensive and work really well. They are easy to fit and easy to calibrate.
Highly recommended.
Yeah, for sure, I don't think I'd personally bother trying to 'make' a mechanical unit these days, something like the Brantz would be wise. We had a TerraTrip (I think, was a while back!) in the Rally Car, very
Awesome cheers guys! How do they fit? Guessing you have to connect them to the speedo drive somehow?
There are many ways the Electronic jobbies can sense & count the wheels turning, I tend to think the simplest is to fit an pulse sender to the speedo drive, these are what you'd fit if you were fitting an electronic speedo, there are 'through' versions available, the sending basically going 'in-line' (usually at the gearbox end of the cable) if you wanted to retain a mechanical speedo. However, while easy to fit up, these do have a disadvantage of not accounting for wheel slip / spin.
Some units (possibly the Brantz, I haven't looked) can take up to 4 inputs and will generally take a calculated average to work from, and even in these there are more up market ones that will automatically exclude a wheel sensor if say 3 are reading 60 and 1 is reading 0, clearly that one is faulty and so will then only work from the remaining 3. Very clever.
Probably the most accurate pick up would be a rear wheel mounted inductive pick up for a Mini.
Iv never hit a penguin in the face with a casserole
Posted 22 December 2014 - 08:36 PM
Awesome thanks for the help!
Stage One Kit Fitted
Posted 22 December 2014 - 08:38 PM
Depends what you want to use it for.
If you are competing under historic regs, anything with an average speed function will be banned.
I have done a few 'classic tours' using a free download tripmeter on a tablet. Based on GPS it requires no fitting and once settled, has proved to be very accurate.
Downloads are available for pretty much any smart phone/tablet.
The one I have also does miles/kmh plus speed and average speed.
Probably not good for competition, but excellent for casual use.
Iv never hit a penguin in the face with a casserole
Posted 22 December 2014 - 08:50 PM
Yea not really using it for `anything serious. Just the odd club navigational rally and stuff like that. Just think having something something fitted to the car will be good.
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 22 December 2014 - 09:21 PM
There is an App you can download which is called 'Rally Odo'. It works very well and I used one in a Sunbeam Tiger in which I did a 50th anniversary continental tour last Summer. We just plugged the phone into the power supply and did 7 days of motoring in France with it.
Alternatively you can fit a Brantz, which I have in my 'S'. I first of all used the standard speedo cable which I cut and fitted the measuring module. But it was right behind the ex. manifold and soon failed, so I got a long speedo cable, ran the cable inside the car across the passenger side, fitted the module behind the navigator's panel and used a 90 degree angle drive into the speedo unit. That has worked very well and I've won many historic road rallies with it..
Speeding Along Now
Posted 26 April 2016 - 07:31 AM
to revisit this .. anything out there around the £200 mark that has trip and speedo? the Monit rally ones look ideal but a bit expensive .. thanks
..is NOT a girl!
Posted 26 April 2016 - 08:58 AM
There's Acewell and Trailtech.
Principally motor bike speedos, but some models suit cars.
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