"Taylor"

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Has anyone used or had any experience of these guages?

http://www.rspec.co.uk/index.php?mai...ex&cPath=3_105

cockneymfc

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ive got the 7 colour gauges in my scoob they give true readin and are easy to wire up

"Taylor"

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Are they the same brand as the ones in the link?

alcazar

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Yes, follow the link look near the bottom.

Makes it so that virtually any illumination colour can be copied.

"Taylor"

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Cheers Alcazar, quite fancy a set of the super blues and changing the speedo clocks to match, should match tidy with my AVCR too.

alcazar

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Changing the speedo clocks.............hmmmmmmm, not always as easy as it sounds. Try a search

"Taylor"

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Is changing the bulbs in the clocks that bad? I though it might be a bit fiddly. I pinched the idea from Daz Davies car in a pic thread on guages.

Techno-P

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I have these exact gauges, oil pressure and boost (bar), easy to wire up, and have a port in the back to provide extra power to another gauge.
Depending on what gauges you go for, you need to put the correct hardware onto the engine, the oil pressure does not come with a T-piece so you can run the gauge and the OE light, so you will need that.
Great products, cant recommend them highly enough!

alcazar

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NEED it? I dunno. Does anyone NEED an OE oil pressure light that comes on at 1bar when they have a gauge? If the pressure gets down to 1bar, the engine has had it anyway.

alcazar

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No, I suppose not, the problems happen when you try and use LEDs, (you need a special type made for instrument illumination), or, heaven forbid, you start changing the background to the clocks. If I had a £1 for everyone I've seen on here with problems of one sort or another after attempting that little manoeuvre.........

Techno-P

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Well true.
The sender that comes in the box for these gauges is fairly chunky, im not entirely sure it will fit between the head and the alternator, so a take off pipe would be a better bet.

Unless of course you go and buy a sandwich plate adaptor.

Oh and if you get a oil temp gauge, the T-piece is handy..

scooby L

I bought the super white (with beep) series gauges from R-Spec.

Flippinng annoying screech on the start up symphony, then erratic readings from both boost and oil pressure... finally resulting in the oil pressure reading 0.1bar (and sounding alarm) on warm tickover... which (after scaring the life out of me) was obviously total rubbish, so I took them out and fitted Defi's.

The R-spec oil filter sandwich plate also comes with a c*#p o ring, which resulted in a significant "drip" after 50 or so miles, I had it replaced with an OEM o'ring and it's been fine since.

alcazar

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The oil temperature sender is meant to go in the dedicated tapping which is blanked off by a threaded plug and is on top of No3 cylinder. That's the one that runs hottest, appartently, so Subaru put the tapping there.

I can't comment on the sender for these gauges, but my Defi sender went in the OE o/p sender tapping no probs.

"Taylor"

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Was looking at using this nifty bit of kit to take the readings from the blanked cylinder 3 plug. It'll allow you to take oil pressure and temp from there then. Not too fussed on the sandwich plate idea.

http://www.rspec.co.uk/index.php?mai...roducts_id=677

Techno-P

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perfect! but cheaper from scoobyparts:
http://www.scoobyparts.com/acatalog/...TTING_KIT.html

"Taylor"

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Cheers Techno, nice find, kit looks identical.