[Topspeedtimmy]

I had this old iPod sitting around and thought it would be fun to try out some auto benchmarking software designed for full-size vehicles. It uses the ipod's built-in accelerometer to measure the rate of acceleration (lateral g's) and thereby determine how fast your car is.

I just taped the ipod to the vehicle in the proper orientation and did some runs down the street. It provided a plethora of information such as horsepower, 0-30mph time, 0-40mph time, as well as the time it took to go several preset distances. We tipped both vehicles a few times due to extreme brushless wheelies, but the ipod came out with only minor scratches.

It measured a speed that was significantly higher than either of our revos can actually go, but I attribute that to the backwards hunch during acceleration, which may have caused the g's to be measured a little bit too high and therefore cause it to think that the vehicle was accelerating faster than it actually was.

It even made some handy graphs. "Revi" refers to a dual velineon e-revo. "Redvesto" refers to a 9XL 4s revo 3.3.