I'm in the market for a portable weather station to take to the dragstrip with me. I'm also looking for a handheld GPS. Some combination of the two would be really moochie but I don't think anyone has this yet? Anyway, those of you with weatherstations/GPS, where did you get them? What did you pay? Would you do it again? Benefits disadvantages etc etc. Any help appreciated. Thanks!

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2000 Black Lightning
#1326 of 4966
Born on 03/20/2000
PSP Chip
PSP Filter
Best time: 13.335 @ 103.91 mph

 

Check summit racing and West Marine. Summit has the weather stations and West Marine will have both.

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2000 Silver Lightning 13.82 (stock)
PSP 4-way
PSP Filter Kit
PSP Lower Pulley
Level 10 Shift kit
Snug-Lid
In the works:
Level 10 converter
4-Link

 

I just got a weather station from Biondo Racing products. They were the cheapest I found for the "Performaire Weather Station" it cost about $400, but I think they are now running a special. It will take some time to get enough runs into it before it is accurate. I don't know why you would need a GPS, the weather station will calculate the corrected altitude for the given weather conditions.

Here is the web site for Biondo
http://www.biondoracing.com/WeatherStations.shtml#PWC

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K&N
downs Intake(piece of *****)
JL flip
Best ET: 13.266 @102.938
Best 60'1.910
Best Stock ET: 13.54@100.8
1.968 60'

 

GPS will tell me how fast I'm going. It's a speedo calibration at top speed thing Thanks for the link!

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2000 Black Lightning
#1326 of 4966
Born on 03/20/2000
PSP Chip
PSP Filter
Best time: 13.335 @ 103.91 mph

 

I've got one of the Oregon Scientific weather stations. Paid $165 on E. bay. It works well at home, but it's not really intended for portable use.

Also have a Magellan GPS 315. Got it on sale at Kmart for $129 a couple of years back. Don't know how high it will read, but it doesn't stop measuring speed at 90 MPH. Never thought about taking it to the track.

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'00 White Lightning #405
Born 2-21-00, delivered 3-6-00
Best run 13.062 @ 105.27 on street tires.

 

Oregon Scientific make some nice weather stations: temp, baro, humidity, etc and they are cheap.

Also many (most?) GPS's turn off at 90mph... I heard that this is because it is illegal to use them in an airplane (so vendors turn them off at high speeds).