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Old Jun 12, 2006 | 10:26 PM
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crap, i think i ditched the woring for the front abs things already when i put my aerospaces on.....damndamndamn...
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Old Jun 13, 2006 | 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by TondSS
ok to explain this a little more what i have gatherd is

1: remove the speed sensor from the tranny it has a pig tail on it!

2: on the inside of the front tire there is a sensor (ABS sensor), that you are suposed to swap the (VSS)-speed sensor into your ABS SENSOR..( ABS sensor) hents you wont have ABS anymore . who needs it anyway!

3: then if were an M6 put in 2.76 for your gear ratio, ALSO AS STATED measure your front tires and put that in as your tire size. to be accurate measure the circumferance of your front tire and divide it by pi (3.14) and that is your right tire heigth.

sux2bu correct me if im wrong thanks!
TRhe ABS sensor is built into the hub on the front wheels. you don't swap sensors you just plug the speed sensor plug into the ABS sensor. but since the plugs are different you have tro splice the wires so you still use the ABS pigtail.
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Old Jun 13, 2006 | 11:31 AM
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ok cool thanks....does anyone have any pics of these sensors done like this , i think that would top it off and they would make this a sticky!!
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Old Nov 22, 2006 | 10:13 AM
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Will this work for the front abs sensor on an LT1 car?
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Old Nov 24, 2006 | 06:42 PM
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so you can just strip the wires on the abs and strip the speedo wires and conect them to eachother with the abs still pluged in so you keep abs and have a speedo?
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Old Dec 1, 2006 | 11:41 AM
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Bump for info on if it will work with LT1 ABS sensor
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Old Dec 1, 2006 | 01:29 PM
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I don't see why you couldn't just tap into the speed sensor wires with the VSS wires. That way you could have both. Like with one of the those t-tap thingys.
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Old Dec 1, 2006 | 01:30 PM
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It should be possible to use a op amp as a buffer (such as a lm328) and keep ABS AND use it for a speedo pickup.
Could you elaborate on this? Where to get one and how one works?
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Old Dec 1, 2006 | 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by vanillagorilla
I don't see why you couldn't just tap into the speed sensor wires with the VSS wires. That way you could have both. Like with one of the those t-tap thingys.
The ABS computer will "sence" something is wrong and dissable the ABS.
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Old Dec 2, 2006 | 11:35 AM
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Very easy to do & works great
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 10:37 AM
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crap, i think i ditched the woring for the front abs things already when i put my aerospaces on.....damndamndamn...
I thought I would bring this thread back from the dead to see if I can get a question answered. My question is if I use this method to get my speedo to work, but down the road I want to switch to aerospace front drag brakes will I still be able to get my speedo to work using this method?
Also I am having a th400 built right now and my builder wants to know which reluctor to use? This is going into a former t56 car.
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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 09:21 PM
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Okay, let me see if I'm getting this...

1) Find the speed sensor plug that hooked into the t56, cut the connector off and strip the ends of the wires

2) Find the ABS sensor for the front wheel (I'm guessing we have to use the driver's side, since the speed sensor is closer to it?), unhook it, cut the connector off, and wire this connector to the stripped wires of the speed sensor, plug into ABS sensor

3) Get the car tuned for 2.76 gears

Also for the tire size, do I need to tell the tuner both the front and rear tire size? My fronts are smaller/shorter than my rears, so I would think that I would need to

Also when I do the splicing, which wires need to go to which slot on the connector? I haven't looked at these connectors yet so I don't know how many wires go to each one
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 12:49 AM
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I thought I would bring this thread back from the dead to see if I can get a question answered. My question is if I use this method to get my speedo to work, but down the road I want to switch to aerospace front drag brakes will I still be able to get my speedo to work using this method?
Also I am having a th400 built right now and my builder wants to know which reluctor to use? This is going into a former t56 car.
YES. I had aerospace brakes on my car when i did this mod. As long as your brakes kit uses your stock hub this will work. I don't think the strange brakes use the stock hub, so i don't thinkyou can use this with strange brakes.
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 12:56 AM
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Okay, let me see if I'm getting this...

1) Find the speed sensor plug that hooked into the t56, cut the connector off and strip the ends of the wires

2) Find the ABS sensor for the front wheel (I'm guessing we have to use the driver's side, since the speed sensor is closer to it?), unhook it, cut the connector off, and wire this connector to the stripped wires of the speed sensor, plug into ABS sensor

3) Get the car tuned for 2.76 gears

Also for the tire size, do I need to tell the tuner both the front and rear tire size? My fronts are smaller/shorter than my rears, so I would think that I would need to

Also when I do the splicing, which wires need to go to which slot on the connector? I haven't looked at these connectors yet so I don't know how many wires go to each one
1)YES

2)You can use either one. Yes.

3)Yes

Just put the front tire size in the tune. Stock tunning uses the rear tire size to calculate speed, Because the stock sensor is on the tranny tailshaft. With the stock set up you can put any size tire on the front of your car and the speedo will still be right (although you might set off your ABS light because of the different RPM's from the front tires and rear tires).
With the set up in this thread you are using the front tire size to calculatw speed. so after you set it all up you can swap to any size tire in the rear and (as long as you don't change front tire size) your speedo will be right.
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 11:24 AM
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some pics of this install may help, the ones who cant get a mental image
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Old Oct 20, 2007 | 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by SUX2BU
1)YES

2)You can use either one. Yes.

3)Yes

Just put the front tire size in the tune. Stock tunning uses the rear tire size to calculate speed, Because the stock sensor is on the tranny tailshaft. With the stock set up you can put any size tire on the front of your car and the speedo will still be right (although you might set off your ABS light because of the different RPM's from the front tires and rear tires).
With the set up in this thread you are using the front tire size to calculatw speed. so after you set it all up you can swap to any size tire in the rear and (as long as you don't change front tire size) your speedo will be right.
Awesome. This should be a pretty easy fix. Going on 2 years now without a speedometer, time to fix that!
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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 01:10 AM
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FWIW, I did this mod and I used to be an A4. HPtuners wouldnt accept 1.175 as a valid gear ratio. 2 is the lowest it would accept so i figured out that a 1.175 gear and 26" tire would equate to a 2.0 gear and 44" tire. well hptuners wouldn't accept 44 as a valid tire height, so I had to put in 40", the biggest it would accept which works out to a 1.3 effective ratio which is just a few mph off.
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Old Oct 29, 2007 | 01:34 AM
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I just did the mod too and for the post above me I think the answer to your question or how to fix your mistake would be to divide your tire height by either 2.76 for an M6 or 1.175 for a A4... For example my tire combo on front is a 245/35/19 tire which works out to a tire height of 25.76" and then when you divide this by the 2.76 I get 9.333... You enter the 9.333 into the box and that's the data that it uses to calculate your speed.... Also if you want to be lazy about it I found a really good website to calculate your tire size without even thinking.. It's http://www.1010tires.com/TireSizeCalculator.asp ... It tells your everything about your tire size so you don't have to do any guessing what so ever...
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Old Nov 17, 2007 | 10:26 PM
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so will it work on a 1995 lt1 car????????
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Just curious, what's different on the M6/A4 cars that call for 1.175 on one and 2.76 on the other, if you're tapping into the front wheels?
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