spike.
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Be careful of the weak drive shafts if you disable the torque limiter.
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Dogsbody said:
Do you mean GPS?
Under acceleration there is a huge lag on GPS speeds, relying on them to tell you when you reach sixty is way inaccurate. GPS is only useful at constant speed.
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Yes I mean GPS speedo, Torque can give me GPS or the output from the cars speed sensor.
I have run Road Angel and now a Pogo Alert speed GPS Speed camera detectors for years and they are pretty well instantaneous updating. I use them as my speedo. GPS has come a long way from the original stuff.
If anything my speedo lags slightly, especially on track.
Surely if its lagging, I'm going quicker than 6.7 Seconds ?
The car only has 200 BHP and isn't the easiest thing to get off the line fast with the NOS as I have to be actually accelerating to turn it on.
I have had Escorts that were in the low 6's and I know how hard they could launch, the FRP isn't in that league :wink:
I used to Drag race them...
I have run Road Angel and now a Pogo Alert speed GPS Speed camera detectors for years and they are pretty well instantaneous updating. I use them as my speedo. GPS has come a long way from the original stuff.
If anything my speedo lags slightly, especially on track.
Surely if its lagging, I'm going quicker than 6.7 Seconds ?
The car only has 200 BHP and isn't the easiest thing to get off the line fast with the NOS as I have to be actually accelerating to turn it on.
I have had Escorts that were in the low 6's and I know how hard they could launch, the FRP isn't in that league :wink:
I used to Drag race them...
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Dogsbody said:
Exactly :grin:
The only way to be sure would be to cruise at a steady 60mph on your GPS and note the speed recorded on the car speedo. It'll probably be around 62 - 63 mph.
Then do your acceleration runs and take your time against the speedo on reaching that recorded speed.
raggamuffin
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If the drive shaft is weak and prone to failure can you buy an uprated one? If so, where?
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could try shaftec, don't worry though, haha, the drive shafts probably won't break by removing the torque limiters on a standard puma
raggamuffin
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True but i'm aiming for 170 so I wouldn't want anythign to fail prematurely if I can strengthen it with better parts I will.
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custom shafts won't be cheap and even with 170 you'll be okay. I'm in the process of turbo charging mine and i'll be aiming for 200 to start with and a hell of a lot more torque and still keeping standard shafts
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From memory the drive shafts only tend to brake when people are booting them hard on full lock.raggamuffin said:
It's also torque which breaks things and I have around 175 Ib/ft of it.
No issues in the last two years.
spike.
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How did jacko break his drive shaft?
