alternative to standard guage placement
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alternative to standard guage placement
im wanting to fit oil temp and pressure guage to my car, so i know when its up to temp before using it properly, im not 100% keen on the idea of pillar pods or pods on top of the dash, is there anyway to run them to a double din screen, or fit a single din radio and have the guages in the other space? ive seen toucan but that is pretty pricey from what ive seen. and i assume the sensor fitted to the oil filter is not the advised method of sensor placing and rather to go into the plug under the intercooler? any advice on it would be much appreciated
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Can't help with placing the gauges, and yoiu need to say what car, year, model to help those who might be able to.
As far as senders are concerned, oil PRESSURE in the place of the standard o-p switch, and if you want to keep the switch, or if the sender doesn't physically fit in the space, use a fitting kit with T-piece.
Oil TEMPERATURE goes into the tappings where the bung is over cylinder 3, as you said. You'l need an adaptor, sometimes sold with the T-Piece above.
T-piece: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OIL-PRESS...QAAOSwKNhapVQh
And with adaptor: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-OI...sAAOxyPLpRcW8l
As far as senders are concerned, oil PRESSURE in the place of the standard o-p switch, and if you want to keep the switch, or if the sender doesn't physically fit in the space, use a fitting kit with T-piece.
Oil TEMPERATURE goes into the tappings where the bung is over cylinder 3, as you said. You'l need an adaptor, sometimes sold with the T-Piece above.
T-piece: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OIL-PRESS...QAAOSwKNhapVQh
And with adaptor: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUBARU-OI...sAAOxyPLpRcW8l
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thanks for the reply, sorry i forgot about that, its a 54 plate impreza wrx. think ill be running the sensors into same place as my friend has, try and make it a bit neater than his though, its more guages im wondering what options i have so its not so obvious
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What about one of these Andrew;
https://www.revworksinc.com/SMY-Clus...TI_p_2984.html
I have one like this - which will be up for sale v soon - and I am only up the road from you in MK if you want to come and have a look.
(I have this, with a single pillar pod for oil temp/pressure/boost)
https://www.revworksinc.com/SMY-Clus...TI_p_2984.html
I have one like this - which will be up for sale v soon - and I am only up the road from you in MK if you want to come and have a look.
(I have this, with a single pillar pod for oil temp/pressure/boost)
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The important factor to my mind is that the gauges have warning functions. Either lights or buzzers. You don't need to be constantly checking oil pressure, water/oil temp, boost etc but you need to know ASAP when things look to be going awry. So if you get decent gauges with warning/alarm functionality, it isn't so crucial that they are in your direct eye-line and so you have a bit more freedom as to where you mount them.
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What about one of these Andrew;
https://www.revworksinc.com/SMY-Clus...TI_p_2984.html
I have one like this - which will be up for sale v soon - and I am only up the road from you in MK if you want to come and have a look.
(I have this, with a single pillar pod for oil temp/pressure/boost)
https://www.revworksinc.com/SMY-Clus...TI_p_2984.html
I have one like this - which will be up for sale v soon - and I am only up the road from you in MK if you want to come and have a look.
(I have this, with a single pillar pod for oil temp/pressure/boost)
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Yeah I did read somewhere they were designed for LHD but could be fitted to rhd just had a slight gap, it'd be great to come have a look at them get a much better idea how they look and fit rather than just from a few select angles on photos. When are you free?
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yeah that would work for me. i may be at a banzai rally breakfast meet tomorrow morning so might be up in the area, could send you a message in the morning to confirm
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