where can i get something like this??
THAT'S exactly what I've got in mind as well. I don't think one HAS to get an old Suzuki hustler, but the real challenge is finding the right shape of case. I figure I could probably stick both stock clocks in the one case. Thing is, I'm more of a mind to grab some type of electronic clocks, unless I can find some really light-weight gear. What would be awesome, is a hall-effect pick-up that drives an electric motor. Why? 'Cause the main problem we all have with the old clocks is the #$%*ing CABLES. Ugh. SO YEAH. What a fella could really use, is an oval clock case with two tight holes in the base, or better yet with electric drives, and a custom dual-dial face. I'm thinkin' the right #$%* to grab is probably staring us all in the face, in the form of modern crotch-rocket gauges. If only one were cheap enough to strip down. What you'd want is the ability to dial in the wheel diameter to speedo rate, via some type of surface mounted dial, and then something similar in the tach drive. I'm sure that all of the magnetic pick-up #$%* in ANY of the crotch rocket drives is similar to any of the others, magnetic pick-ups being magnetic pick-ups. You know, there's a geek hobby magazine for dudes who like to #$%* with electronics. Whadda they callet? There's an expression. Ahh, "Circuit Bent". We need to find some of these dudes. You can often find them on the music scene if they're into classic synthesizers. Though I'd bet that the typical vidiot-game tweaker or computer tweaker is just using somebody else's "hacks". What you NEED is a dude who can modify the hardware side of #$%* based on the electronics. I can think of a few guys who do it with guitar pedals and #$%*, build their own boards and that type of deal. But yeah, what we need to do is source out the right kind of geek, maybe place an advert in the geek magazines. I'd like to put out a challenge to those dudes, offer to get some of 'em LAID and #$%* like that. Well, it's not like I'm as good at that type of thing as I used to be. If he's in highschool maybe I could introduce him to my daughter's friends. Most of 'em owe me few favours.... Ha ha. Maybe I should just get them hooked on my pain-killers. But yeah, ideally one could find a dude who could tweak the inputs on those electronic clocks off the crotch rockets, especially the wrecked and crashed #$%*. Then one needs to source out a good oval clock face, and get some custom graphics made for the dials. With a big enough face, I suppose one could fit in two typical clock mechanisms from an old school system, but then you've still gotta deal with the clocks. And you know, I still regard my DOHC Honda tacho drive as a source of #$%* getting into the head, right onto the cams. When I think of some of the old rusty cables and #$%* I've seem over the years, the rust and #$%* that came out of them, I wonder how much of that crap got into the engine!!! DAMN, if the cam got half as dirty as the engine end of the cable, that's a #$%*in' MESS. Ugh. So yeah, I'm all for plugging off the tachs and running a pick-up off the side of the coils. Then a little magnet on the wheel any old place, hell that's just a super-duper clean set-up, that's why you wanna do it. OF COURSE, the LOOK is what you want, so then you'll wanna run the wires through an old cable sleeve. That's not too far fetched. One could well imagine the speedo drive containing a sealed pick-up and a tiny little counter-sunk magnet in the hub. Not rocket science, by any stretch of the imagination. Unless it's goin' on a rocket. Heh heh. In which case, I guess this IS rocket science.... Anyway, if any of you dudes has an autistic little brother, or a gran-dad who worked on radios in the Navy, that type of #$%*, then you should take 'em out of moth-balls and stick em on the forum. 'Cause it shouldn't be too far of a stretch to get some of them clocks tickin' to your tune, marching to the beat of your different thumper, etc etc ad nauseum....
-S.
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