Reply to "Racelogic GPS Performance tester"

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Originally posted by No Quarter:
I bought such a thing recently, and have then been sitting waiting for a day with dry roads, happens rarely in these parts of the world. I bought it for a couple of reasons.

Primarily as an aid in tuning my cars. As those of you that have had the pleasure(?) of reading my book knows, the first parts of the engine tuning process can be done in your driveway with a vacuum gauge. But the later parts of the process requires trial and error testing on the road/track and adjusting. Doing that kind of testing with a 300-400HP automatic musclecar was doable. But with a higher HP manual trans Pantera, holding on to a stopwatch or noting the speedometer when on a public road at double the legal speed, well it becomes both less accurate and more dangerous. With the Racelogic, one less concern.

The second reason is that I'd like to know what it can do. 0-100 kph, lateral Gs and all that. It's rare in this forum that performance numbers are quoted. During this post I will quote mine, knowing full well that this is just the calculation of one GPS, could be inaccurate. So bear with me, just letting you know what it said, and I'll let you be the judge of the accuracy.