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Still no replacement for the Thor SLD?


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As above really! The Thor Racing unit appears to be the best one around, except it's not actually around anymore :(

 

Does anyone know if they will be making another load? If not, which is the best one still available?

 

I have the KMH-MPH converter in there, but it'll be one of the cheap ones that's used when the car is imported, so perhaps an all-in-one unit might be appropriate!

 

Any help appreciated as always :)

 

Dan

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Hmmmm, wonder if Nod would pick up something like this 'hint-hint' ;)

 

Lol! That would really stick in Pete's Craw :D

 

Speed limiter / converter. Piece of piss. I thought they were 10 a penny though?

 

I'm making a unit that converts ABS pulse to speed for a customer with an MR2 who fitted a diff with no drive for his speed sender. Remove the VR stage and it should be the same thing.

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Speed limiter / converter. Piece of piss. I thought they were 10 a penny though?

 

That may be so but the Thor unit wasn't a run of the mill converter. It had a scaled output for the correct functioning of the speedo and odometer and a clamped output for proper functionng of the ECU/TCU, PAS and front spoiler. IIRC it was also adjustable in 10% steps to account for non standard wheel sizes.

 

Shame it (or anything like it) is not made any more :(

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I contacted Thor about a kph/mph converter a couple of weeks ago and this is what I got back :)

 

Thanks for your enq, another batch is certainly on the cards but currently we are moving to a bigger better premises.

 

Until we are settled at the new premises (mid-Sept) we won’t have them time to make a new batch.

 

I’m sorry I can’t offer any alternatives at this moment in time, I have added you to the waiting list and I’ll be email you when the new batch is ready,

 

Kind regards,

 

Charlie

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I doubt this will happen any time soon. Pete has to have at least 100 made to make it economical and that's a few grand of investment. As he (despite the blurb on Thor's web site might have you believe) down sized from 3 big units at Runway farm, made his engine builder redundant and moved to much cheaper premises would make me think he's feeling the pinch like everyone else in this industry.

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On the subject of SLD, The last one I had an entanglement with was a very badly fitted HKS one (Sellotape and twisting of wires :rolleyes:). This was on an non VVTi auto and it had hooks into the Traction control and the auto solenoids. This makes me think there is more to a speed delimiter than the more crude ones observe.

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