Car stuff admin on 27 Aug 2005 06:26 pm
So that’s what that’s for!
I finally found a purpose for the mostly-useless center sun shade in my WRX. It makes a perfect mount for my new Lev-O-Gage Sr. inclinometer, erm, I mean, G-Whiz.
The shade still flips up and clears the mirror even though it doesn’t look like it in the pic. It would also appear that my parking spot is not quite level.
The (extra) markup on the Lev-O-Gage is not as bad as I suspected… only 100-300%. Those fancy infomercials ain’t free, ya know.
I bought it on a whim. Leave me alone.
Turns out (pun?) that my “moderate-speed” cornering is about 1/2 a G. It will be interesting to see what my high-speed freeway entrance and exit ramp forces are — I think I can get solidly into the orange zone (.57 to .84 Gs).
The original markings on the inclinometer are from 0 to 50 degrees, the markings on the “G meter” correspond to the tangent of those — which is good because that’s correct. It’s like Trigonometry or something.
Apparently the place to find these inclinometers is RV and boat stores, and, ya know, The Interweb. So if you’re too cheap to support clever marketing and high-quality G-Force calibrated sticker placement you can “build” your own for $10-$20.