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> Guagues, Which are most useful?
GTeener
post Jul 1 2004, 11:51 AM
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I already have the /6 dash guagues but not the center console guages (voltmeter & oil temp).

I am not totally sure my oil pressure guague works properly, but I digress...

What I want to know is, would it be be advantageous to have all these guagues (and working of course)?

What are the most important secondary guagues (not Spedo & Tach) for these cars?
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post Jul 1 2004, 05:53 PM
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Not necessarily a sudden increase. Bad things happen if the heads get above 450dF. Normally, they should be no higher than 350dF. The temperature varies widely based on load. It can be as low as 250dF on a fully-warmed up engine while idling, up to 400dF when pulling up a steep hill at low revs.

$100 is about average in price. All of the expense is in the gauge. You'll see they also sell just the sender for only $15.

Andy, I agree on the nice display with temperature compensation. I'm working on it. Not four numbers, as I think just monitoring the hottest cylinder is adequate (and I want to keep it small, perhaps three 7-segment digits on the tach face). Just can't seem to find the necessary circular tuit.
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GTeener   Guagues   Jul 1 2004, 11:51 AM
lapuwali   Discussed recently, and there are a lot of opinion...   Jul 1 2004, 12:24 PM
SirAndy   oil idiot light oil pressure oil temp oil level CH...   Jul 1 2004, 12:33 PM
lapuwali   The 911 oil level gauge is pretty useless. Really...   Jul 1 2004, 12:46 PM
J P Stein   Oil pressure, oil temp.....the rest is window dres...   Jul 1 2004, 02:08 PM
GTeener   <...   Jul 1 2004, 02:41 PM
GTeener   <...   Jul 1 2004, 03:01 PM
Andyrew   CHT= Cylander Head Temp.. Critical guage..   Jul 1 2004, 03:04 PM
GTeener     Jul 1 2004, 03:22 PM
tat2dphreak   CHT,oil temp, oil press. (light ok)   Jul 1 2004, 03:32 PM
Jeroen   <...   Jul 1 2004, 04:49 PM
lapuwali   I think my point is, if you have to be sitting sto...   Jul 1 2004, 05:22 PM
GTeener   Is this a good price? Can they be found used and f...   Jul 1 2004, 05:38 PM
mistro   ... CHT gauge ... Fast responding and very useful ...   Jul 1 2004, 05:39 PM
SirAndy     Jul 1 2004, 05:45 PM
GTeener     Jul 1 2004, 05:46 PM
lapuwali   Not necessarily a sudden increase. Bad things hap...   Jul 1 2004, 05:53 PM
SirAndy   <...   Jul 1 2004, 07:15 PM
TimT   I look at one maybe two gauges.... oil pressure, ...   Jul 1 2004, 07:28 PM
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TimT   you wanna play you got to pay...   Jul 1 2004, 08:09 PM
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TimT   Heck I wouldnt pay $1500 for that instrument ...   Jul 1 2004, 08:37 PM
mistro   I'll give you $60 for the first one! ...   Jul 1 2004, 08:39 PM
TimT   Still just two gauges are important to me oil pr...   Jul 1 2004, 08:41 PM
lapuwali   The LM3914 is also found in nearly every narrow-ba...   Jul 1 2004, 08:45 PM
mistro   Whats an EGT?   Jul 1 2004, 08:49 PM
J P Stein   Hay, Tim, CHT gauges would be impotant to us if we...   Jul 1 2004, 08:52 PM
Lawrence   Am I the only one that thinks this is a bit hokey?...   Jul 2 2004, 02:45 AM
tat2dphreak     Jul 2 2004, 10:12 AM
Scott Schroeder   After reading Jakes posts, I think I would do 4 CH...   Jul 2 2004, 10:22 AM
lapuwali   Rusty, it is a bit hokey, but that's how therm...   Jul 2 2004, 10:25 AM
Aaron Cox   Andy, i talked to my dad about your gauge design. ...   Jul 2 2004, 06:15 PM
Aaron Cox   doh!   Jul 2 2004, 06:16 PM
TimT   Aaron, I have a bunch of old VDO gauges that you c...   Jul 2 2004, 06:21 PM
Aaron Cox   wow, that was like what, 3 minutes after my post? ...   Jul 2 2004, 06:25 PM
SirAndy     Jul 2 2004, 06:27 PM
Aaron Cox   Could always use more smaller led's andy. that...   Jul 2 2004, 06:29 PM
SirAndy     Jul 2 2004, 06:31 PM
Aaron Cox     Jul 2 2004, 06:36 PM
Aaron Cox   oh and they make led's the size of pin heads a...   Jul 2 2004, 06:36 PM
TimT   Aaron, send me your address, Ill send an old gau...   Jul 2 2004, 06:42 PM
Aaron Cox   i pm'd it to you. thanks again dude, Aaron   Jul 2 2004, 06:43 PM


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