Oil pressure even bigger idiot light Options

[ThePaintedMan]

At some point I'll be modifying my dash to put my additional gauges in plain view with the rest of them, as Chris Foley suggested to me some time ago. While I'm at it, I'd like to put an additional oil pressure idiot light up top with a modern LED bulb to get the driver's attention (even though at race pace, by the time it come's on the damage will probably already have been done). Is it simple enough to just piggy-back onto the existing oil pressure light in the fuel gauge, splicing into those wires?

Ideally it would be nice to do the same thing with the alternator light, but given the fact that it's part of the charging system, I don't think I don't think I can do that, correct?

[brant]

george,

you can buy those warning switches in different psi ratings too...
on my old 4 cylinder race car I mounted a 15psi switch in addition to the stock warning light.

If I went out onto the track and forgot to turn the accusump on...
right away even before getting the tires warm, I would see the 2ndary warning light telling me that I was running between the stock 3pounds and the aftermarket 15pounds in even the first corner....


I felt like having a pre-warning... warning light might give me an extra moment of warning