BOOST GUAGE
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Can anyone give me any suggestions on where to mount a boost guage? Are there any mounting pods availiable which arent cheesy and fit in well? All i have seen are virtually home made brackets sprouting off the dash board or cheap plastic pods that crack.
Also suggestions on best place to install into boost line.
Cheers Ad.
Also suggestions on best place to install into boost line.
Cheers Ad.
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Best idea I've seen is the 'heads up' one where you sit the unit on top of the dash, and it beams the graphics onto the windscreen which is well cool. It's expensive though.
I previously had an Audi and mounted the gauge on the A pillar. What I did was to take off the fabric on the A pillar trim get a pillar gauge mount, cut to pieces and epoxy the mount onto the A pillar, used filler and smoothed. Then got upholsterer to recover. The result was exceptional and anyone who didn't know better though it was std.
Problem is impreza A pillar trim is not fabric covered, however I have seen custom made pillar trims for Escort Cossie so you may get one for an impreza.
I previously had an Audi and mounted the gauge on the A pillar. What I did was to take off the fabric on the A pillar trim get a pillar gauge mount, cut to pieces and epoxy the mount onto the A pillar, used filler and smoothed. Then got upholsterer to recover. The result was exceptional and anyone who didn't know better though it was std.
Problem is impreza A pillar trim is not fabric covered, however I have seen custom made pillar trims for Escort Cossie so you may get one for an impreza.
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There are several dash/A-pillar gauge pods about, but most seem to agree that the ScoobyMania one is the best match. Mine's fitted with a Defi gauge and that matches the standard dials exactly, too.
Richard.
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Richard - SNAP 
lol!!! I've got exactly the same set up as Richard and I think its great - looks really good and fits in well, however, the ScoobyMania pod is designed for the MY99+ dashboard AFAIK...
lol!!! I've got exactly the same set up as Richard and I think its great - looks really good and fits in well, however, the ScoobyMania pod is designed for the MY99+ dashboard AFAIK...
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I've posted some pics - sorry about the quality.
See:
http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...ThreadID=63464
See:
http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...ThreadID=63464
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Hi,
Just fitted a power engineering gauge and pod to MY97.
It can within one day of ordering, and is now fitted neatly next to the 'A' pillar, resting on top of the dash.
When fitted (about an half hour job) it looks the business, much better than the usual 'bolt on' pods behind the steering wheel.
At £50 its not the cheapest, but it is in the styling of the car.
Btw. The gauge is also nice and scaled upto 20 PSI, just the area of interest for us scooby owners.
Recommended.
Rich
edited to say:
For fitting - run the pipe from the unused niplle on the manifold, feed it through a rubber bulkhead grommit near the brake servo.
Remove the lower part of the dash, under the steering wheel, route the pipe the RHS (from inside looking frontwards) of the dash. You will be able to run the pipe up into a small gap that runs between the RHS edge of the dash and the A pillar, you can run it along the gap until it pops out perfectly for connection the the gauge.
For illumination route the wires from the guage along a similar path, terminating them to the wires on the easily removed foglight switch connector (black is ground and yell or white is illumination - check with meter it was darkish when i fitted mine )
refit dash and hey presto.
Thats on a UK97 btw, the newer dash fitting may be different.
[Edited by Richard Curtis - 1/6/2002 10:23:12 PM]
Just fitted a power engineering gauge and pod to MY97.
It can within one day of ordering, and is now fitted neatly next to the 'A' pillar, resting on top of the dash.
When fitted (about an half hour job) it looks the business, much better than the usual 'bolt on' pods behind the steering wheel.
At £50 its not the cheapest, but it is in the styling of the car.
Btw. The gauge is also nice and scaled upto 20 PSI, just the area of interest for us scooby owners.
Recommended.
Rich
edited to say:
For fitting - run the pipe from the unused niplle on the manifold, feed it through a rubber bulkhead grommit near the brake servo.
Remove the lower part of the dash, under the steering wheel, route the pipe the RHS (from inside looking frontwards) of the dash. You will be able to run the pipe up into a small gap that runs between the RHS edge of the dash and the A pillar, you can run it along the gap until it pops out perfectly for connection the the gauge.
For illumination route the wires from the guage along a similar path, terminating them to the wires on the easily removed foglight switch connector (black is ground and yell or white is illumination - check with meter it was darkish when i fitted mine
)refit dash and hey presto.
Thats on a UK97 btw, the newer dash fitting may be different.
[Edited by Richard Curtis - 1/6/2002 10:23:12 PM]
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