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Well after much ado I have finally ordered a new Aygo.I currently drive a (yellow!!!) Fiat Cinquecento Sporting so its quite a step up!

I really REALLY hate the idea of driving a car without a rev counter / tachometer but couldnt justify the 1700 euro / £1200 extra for the model that has it.Im in Ireland and the models seem a bit different to the UK ones Terra/Aura/Strata .Anyway Ive gone for the poverty spec Terra,in Red with the 'keep fit' manual /windy windows (what was I saying about a step up from my Cinquecento Sporting!?).That doesnt bother me in the slightest (happy enough to save on the weight -and cash-to be honest) nor do the steel wheels (many of these are lighter than alloys also)But the rev counter -I want one !

So anybody PLEASE tell me how to get a non Toyota/Citroen/Peugeot rev counter into my new Aygo.

Also I noticed on the test drives that the car seemed a LOT faster with a few thousand miles on the clock (and the gearbox loosened up nicely)and also that the tiny 155s screeched like a 70s car chase scene on roundabouts.Do you have to learn to cope with screeching and four wheel drifts if youre a 'spirited' Aygo pilot!!!???

Posted

There's lots of aftermarket rev counters available,

but you DO have to look for one that can handle a

3 cylinder engine!

The cheep common ones usually only

can handle a 4, 6 or 8 cylinder...

Posted

I was looking at a simple digital rev counter on eBay and asked the seller (a business)if it worked for 3 cyl engines .His reply was

Hi, The tacho uses an inductive pickup on one of the HT leads and can be programmed for 0.5 , 1 or 2 pulses per revolution and this satisfies all applications that I have come across. Any further queries please do not hesitate to ask, cheers.

Do you think this would work?I doubt it .

On a more positive note the local Peugeot garage here in Ireland can sell me a 107 rev counter for about 200 euro /GB£130 so I guess thats the way I'll be headed.Are the Citroen ones any cheaper?

Posted

If you do the pickup off of one of the HT leads to a sparkplug you should set it

to 0.5 pulse/rev, as a 4 stroke ignites every cylinder once in two revolutions.

So yes, it can be used... Set at 1 pulse/rev and pickup ath the sparkplug is

fine for a 2 stroke too and with 2 pulse/rev you can hook it up to the king

lead of a 4 cilinder 4 stroke. In practice 0.5 and 1 are all you need to hook

up to allmost any engine (running on petrol that is...).

Have you got a link to that eBay auction or seller? I might be interested too...

Citroen has a listprice that's WAY cheaper than Peugeot, but that price

is only applicable when buying the car, not as an "after thought"...


Posted

Thanks, it's not really to my taste; it looks like a Bicycle Computer on steroids ;)

I think I'll keep wilt my original idea of a Bargraph of 10 or 20 LEDs for

revs and an adjecent one of 10 LEDs for systems Voltage, still not sure;

too many ideas and too little time, so I'm doing one project at a time and

the current one is an extra display built into the dash :P

BTW. I DID have a bike-computer in my DeLorean:

Computer.JPG

I put it there toa hhave an accurate readout in kmh, as the original speedo

was in miles and the resolution of the little print in km was very low.

Also the speedo-drive on DeLoreans is of a poor design; I had min break

5 times within one year, costing about £800 in repairs to be reliable...

For the thing on eBay you need to fit a sensor on an axle for the speedo;

I recommend putting the magnet on one of the CV-joints at the gearbox.

Those move the least, so you can make a bracket for the sensor

without worying too much about routing the cable over moving

parts like steering knuckles and suspension bits.

I had mine on the tranny of the DeLorean, with a bracket bolted into an existing hole:

Pickup.JPG

The round bit on the CV is the magnet, stuck on with special epoxy glue

Posted

[Wow a DeLorean !!!As a teenager of the 1980s thats a real dream car....With all the clever mods you have you could probably throw in an atomic time travel (Back to the Future1/2/3/!!!) unit too!!!Of course they were made in Ireland where im from.

Posted

I know it was built in NI; I've even been at the factory grounds in

Dunmerry in May 2006, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the car.

We had about 70 of them there at the event in Belfast.

The "thing that makes time travel possible" is indeed the Flux Capacitor:

copyright-2002-markshields.com-4860.jpg

I never finished mine before selling the car... If I ever DO finish it I'll put in in the Aygo :P

@Ytareh: the chrome one does have a

very high "rice factor" don't you think? ;)

Posted

always wanted to know this, but can the DeLorean actually do 88mph on its own? cos i heard sumwhere that it was a running gag with BTTF that it couldnt actually go that fast.

Posted
always wanted to know this, but can the DeLorean actually do 88mph on its own?

YES, it DOES do 88mph. Quite easily actually...

According to the factory it could do 230kmh=143mph

and I've had mine up to 215kmh=133mph once.

The last bit DID take some time as you can only get there in

Fifth gear, which looses you a lot of torque/acceleration...

I usually cruised at 85mph and regularly

tipped 100mph when overtaking or at night...

cos i heard sumwhere that it was a running gag with BTTF that it couldnt actually go that fast.

There is SOME truth to this; due to Federal law in the Eighties, cars weren't allowed to have

a speedometer that could indicate more than 85mph, even if they could drive MUCH faster...

speedo.jpg

The speedo you see in the BTTF-movies is actually altered; all numbers except 0 have

been moved down the scale, so the speedo in the movie shows 95 as maximum...

Today there are several alternative decals available for the speedo, so it can indicate up

to 140mph, 170mph or 240kmh by replacing the decal and having the unit re-calibrated...

Posted

thats cool, probs why i thought it only did like 85 then. was reading up loads about DMC and the DeLoran last night (bit sad but nevermind) proper sad how fast the company disapeared and how little cars were made. did u have to do much work to it to get it running Ok cos the orgional cars dont seem to be very reliable at all.

Posted

We're going WAY off-topic now, but I bought mine driveable and kept it that way...

I DROVE the car home after buying it over 100 miles from my house.

Never hhad any real issues with it except normal maintenance and it's NEVER

let me down when I "needed" it. I had a dead Battery once, due to a faulty switch

on a door, causing the alarm to go off every 5 minutes untill the batttery was drained.

Oh and my speedometerdrive broke 5 times in one year because of a design flaw...

Well maintained these car are as reliable as any other 15+ year old car and a LOT

cheaper to drive as a contemporary Porsche or Ferrari; the engine's a Volvo V6

derivative with Renault and Peugoet also having hhad incarnations of them.

I had mine serviced onece a year with the MOT at a regular garage without problems...


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