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Let's start again, with new info! Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email] (#32) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:56:00 In Reply to: Replacing the Speedometer, Justin VanAbrahams [Profile/Gallery] , Mon, 28 Mar 2016 14:32:33 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
On the way to work today I remembered I have a half-dismantled transmission in the garage, so at lunch I checked it out.
The speedometer drive gear on the 900's inner driver has 16 teeth, the gear on the speedometer pickup itself has 13 teeth. I have a LOI of c900 pickups, they're all 13 teeth. :) A 1.23:1 ratio.
I also found a 9000 speedometer gear which has more teeth (14, IIRC), but I don't have the drive gear so that's useless info. :)
2485 square pulses per kilometer = approx 3965 square pulses per mile
VSS is 4x the square pulse rate, or approx. 15860 sine pulses per mile
Indicated drill speed was 700rpm, divided by the 1.23:1 ratio of the speed drive, that approximately 569rpm at the wheel.
195/60-15 tire is approximately 76.0194" around. 569rpm * 76.0194" tire circumference is 43263" per minute, or approximately .68 miles per minute
.68 miles per minute * 15860 sine pulses at one mile per minute is approximately 10829 sine pulses per minute
10829 sine pulses per minute divided by 60 seconds per minute = 180 sine pulses per second.
I measured 189.4Hz. 189.4Hz is SO CLOSE to the expected 180Hz I think it's fair to say it's close enough. That's 4% error, well within speedometer inaccuracy and possibly explained by a different tire size (195/60-15 c900 vs. 195/65-15 or 205/55-16 9000) or possibly explained by a slight error in the speedo drive ratio, 900 vs. 9000.
I am pretty satisfied this is an accurate test with good math.
The only thing I'd enjoy discovering is what the 9000's speedo gear ratio is, just for grins.
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