got my gauges fitted today thwiates enginnering did them in warwick and got to say how honest and helpfull this guy is you should try them
what i want to know is what should i set the warnings at for boost iol temp and pressure??
also they seemed to run at between 70 and 80 for temp around 100 for pressure and the highest boost was 19 psi
do they sound ok???

 

My oil temp is usually 90 degrees, alarm at 100. pressure varies with revs, alarm at 2 bar (mine), and boost depends on your engine , and it's safe limits, mine's set at 2 bar to shut it up !

IMHO.

dunx

 

2bar pressure on your oil pressure to have an alarm?? Isn't that low? I thought the scoob ran at about 6bar pressure under some spirited driving?

As stated above boost will varie on what you have had done to your car etc, but the std fuel cut on these cars is around 1.25 or 1.3 bar I think so I would set it at around that mark (if the car is std) just incase fuel cut doesn't kick in and car overboosts something rotten.

Just my thought

 

can you convert that to psi not sure how to do it??

 

1bar = 15 psi ...approx

 

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nice one syph 19psi is 1.31bar is that normal??

 

Sounds about right, most gauges, even Defi's aren't 100% accurate.

imho

dunx

P.S. oil pressure set to 2 bar is enough to avoid warnings at idle when thrashed, on mine anyway.

 

My oil temp is about 80-90 degrees C, oil pressure is about 90-100 PSI which I think is about right "normal" driving. Incidently what sort of temperature do people let their car come on boost at?

 

tbh I let the oil temp reach 50 degrees before full beans, but a bit of boost won't hurt whilst warming up IMHO

dunx

 

Nice one, I have always give it up to 10 minutes depending on the outside temp before I had gauges, and now I have them it takes between 5 and 10 to get up to about that
Ta
Paul