What Gauges are Must Have's?, For a /6 Conversion Options

[kconway]

I'm trying to work out what to do for gauges for a /6 conversion. I've been chatting with Mark about building a triple gauge for oil pressure, oil temp and fuel. My question is do I really need an oil pressure gauge for a street car or is the idiot light adequet? I think an ammeter is just a novelty and I'm not crazy about a quad gauge as it looks too busy.

I have a NOS combo gauge for a /4 motor and I was contemplating just updating the oil temp gauge portion with a matching sender for temp telemtry.

My other alternative is sending my NOS combo gauge (I hate to sacrafice a NOS gauge) as a core and having a triple gauge made by Vintage USA.

What is the combo gauge I've attached worth? Thinking of maybe selling it and sourcing a core for my triple gauge.

Any opinions? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)





Kev

[carr914]

IBut in my little world there's another component....and it may apply to some of us. I have a 6, it came to me with steel flares but without rengine and tranny, so I've started down the slippery GT tribute slope....with faint hope that the insurance company up here will allow it to be classified a collector IF it LOOKS like a GT....(not sure where the lines are drawn in the sand on that one)........

Don't know if any of you have insurers that will give you a break in rates if appearances are correct....

BUT that would mean I go with the old 911 gauge....

Not sure I understand the Question. Collector Insurance will Insure a 914-6 with Flares as Porsche did offer the M-471 through the Dealers for customers to convert a -6 to a GT (as mine has). These companies wouldn't know a GT from a 912, however you won't get away with Insuring it for some crazy amount like $300k.

As far as putting in a 911 gauge vs another gauge, that won't make any difference.

T.C.

[porbmw]

I drive in a "monopoly insurance" world....read expensive insurance.

To get basic collector plates, the car has to look as if it rolled off the assembly line. That isn't TOO tough with a 6....UNLESS you start doing mods.

Up here, there is no way in "HE double hockey sticks" they will give collector plates to a 6 that "just got flares"....They get really picky re what is stock, what not....

I have NO idea of what their position will be if I ask to have collector plates on a car that "looks" like an M-471....and then the question is begged, what does/did an M-471 look like...

I doubt it's been done here....and if I don't succeed, it was worth a try, but not anything I'll lose sleep over. In some ways, I just want to test the waters.

I didn't mean the question to become an "insurance question". I do know that in order to have any hope of persuading collector status, I'll have to give them detailed photos of what "an M-471 looked like", which I guess is a loaded question. Having said that, I have no idea whether they'll consider an optioned car like an M-471 as a possible factory car.

To my uneducated ey, it does seem that the photos typically show the traditional 911 temp gauge...and the 10K tach.

I didn't mean the query to become an "insurance question".

My intent is not to insure the car for any greater value than it then has ( and I'll end up getting an appraisal of some sort to help float a general value on that topic. )

My intent is to get some affordable insurance under the collector status....it then falls within the ambit of cars that can't be driven to work, etc, but the expectation of the insurer is that the vehicle is less likely to be involved in an incident, and thus a lower risk/annual premium (read something like $500 per year, instead of $2500)

What I hoped to ask was whether there is any trick to getting ones hands on a 10k tach...can it be made, or do I have to buy OEM, which is a tad pricey. Well, probably both options are.

And thanks for the comments. Despite my awkward question, I got the answer(s)...

(quote)

Not sure I understand the Question. Collector Insurance will Insure a 914-6 with Flares as Porsche did offer the M-471 through the Dealers for customers to convert a -6 to a GT (as mine has). These companies wouldn't know a GT from a 912, however you won't get away with Insuring it for some crazy amount like $300k.

As far as putting in a 911 gauge vs another gauge, that won't make any difference.

T.C.
[/quote]