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From: Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> Reply-To: type3@vwtype3.org To: type3@vwtype3.org Subject: Re: [T3] those rubber bump stoppers Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:40:35 -0600
On 29 Oct 2005 at 15:16, Stephen Jackson wrote:
> The speedo cable is on the FRONT wheels? How bizarre! Most cars I have
> worked on have that on the trans. counting driveshaft revolutions...having
> it on the wheel guarantees inaccuracy while making a corner....
The corner problem tends to average itself out, unless you're just driving around in circles, or ovals.
For cars running Time/Speed/Distance rallys the hi-performance setup was to add a speedo cable to one of the front wheels, if the car was rear wheel drive. This was done because any corner error tended to average itself out while errors from wheelslip were always larger on the drive wheels. Rear engined Porsches and VWs were thought to have an advantage here because of the way they came from the factory.
The extra speedo cable was generally added to the OUTSIDE of the wheel. It looped out from the body and came in and attached to the hubcap. I believe it was Heuer that made a kit for this, as well as the early computer that attached to it.
A friend and I did some TSD rallying in his 64 Beetle in around '69 and never did very well, except for the one time we won with an accumulated error over the ~2 hour course of just one second. That was a complete fluke, but I still have the navigator's trophy. ;-)
We couldn't afford the expensive Heuer equipment. All I had was a slide rule and a watch with a sweep second hand. It's a very pleasant memory.
-- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA *******************************
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