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Originally Posted by formally pizzaman
just want to time my own car while practice.
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Then there are a few options that are all fairly cheap (compared to an AMB):
1. Look out for a used Orion LCS on here or ebay. This is an infra-red transponder system for counting one car. They were about £200 new, not sure about second-hand cost.
2. Get a transmittter with a built-in lap timer and press the lap button yourself as you cross the line. I modified my old Futaba FF3 years ago to put the stopwatch buttons on the back so I could press them without losing control of the car.
3. Get a Novak Sentry data logger. These can be purchased new from Novak for $100. It monitors all sorts of things, most importantly motor RPM. I use this in my TC and it works brilliantly as the motor reaches peak RPM once per lap (on the main straight), so I wrote a simple bit of software to calculate the time between peaks, which gives you your laptimes. I don't know how well this would work off-road as I suspect you have lots of peaks due to jumps and slipper clutches.