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Someone should make an app where you can connect to a black box via blue tooth connected to your motor and electrical system to give you speedo, tacho, cht, and anything else you want without needing extra equipment such as a sip speedo. This way, you wouldn't have to replace your vintage equipment. Any programmers out there?
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I actually built this a while back using a raspberry pi. It's far from just a black box. It's hardware engineering to get the sensors feeding in, which was a LOT of work. I was also streaming telemetry to a time series database in AWS for analytics.

If I resurrected the project, I'd probably use an Arduino because it recovers better from power dropouts.

If you want to catch up on what was involved, check out The Ves-pi project
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I love it. Can I add that the same black box should also determine low PSI on the tires? That's a plus. And it'd save plenty of threads if the app could identify where the oil is coming from.
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Do you mean a black box that is wired to the original wire harness and then wirelessly connects to your phone?
How do you want to display the information?
Do you have a budget in mind?

For full dash and electrical systems look to the Rally industry. But those tend to have four to five digits in the price.
There is a Raspberry Pi "dashboard" that functions nicely to display information on a tablet.
Many years ago there was the "Scooterputer", while interesting project on its own it was not for engine parameters etc.
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Basically any info that the sip tacho indicates but is available via iphone app so that the the original speedo doesn't need to be replaced.

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