i be going with a afr gauge and an tranny temp gauge foresure if still auto _________________
a real car has 3 pedals
aristo's,rx3 fj20t,urvan z18t,v6 sigma,starion's,la lancer 2.6t aka 4u2no,gc galants
vn/lexcen turbo ,202 six 1200 ute,gh sigma turbo's
escorts,et turbo's,rx7 s3 13b jay port,ta22 celica
Cool, and why is that?
I understand hot trannies fail but why AFRatio?
air/fuel ratio so you dont have it running lean when boosting it up _________________
a real car has 3 pedals
aristo's,rx3 fj20t,urvan z18t,v6 sigma,starion's,la lancer 2.6t aka 4u2no,gc galants
vn/lexcen turbo ,202 six 1200 ute,gh sigma turbo's
escorts,et turbo's,rx7 s3 13b jay port,ta22 celica
Boost, Oil pressure, Fuel Pressure an water temp is what i run but probs going Oil temp as well.
Ya need BOOST Guage So you can see Spikes and Also just incase say Wastegate Stays Shut you can see the turbo is goner overboost ya can back off.
FUEL PRESSURE is a Important one cause It only takes that little vaccum hose on the FPR to come loose or off or split and Then your FPR is fucked and then ya Lean out and Detonate the engine.
My dynotuner always says That the biggest killer of Well looked after motors is The Vacuum line off the FPR and or injectors not firing and the Turbo Over Boosting.
OIL Pressure equally as useful to see if Oil pressure drops may save ya motor if ya looking at it
Water temp is really a optional thing TRD and Aristo Dashes are pretty well spot on when it comes to that provided ya sensor is in good condition.
Oil temp is Useful but not essential
If your Doing Drags then yeah Tranny Temp/pressure Guage would be very Useful on the track but on the street not really essential I think.
voltage again really only useful for diagnoses as is the Wideband AFR gauge which are not perfectly accurate anyway.
Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 447 Location: Wellington NZ
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 9:13 pm Post subject:
For permanent install AFR is number one priority for me, a close second is knock indication. I've only found boost gauges useful when tuning boost control.
The Aristo dash is the first dash I've noticed to have numbers on the water temp gauge!
et turbos,rx7's have it and late model jd starions aswell all have numbers for the water temp,boost,oil pressure _________________
a real car has 3 pedals
aristo's,rx3 fj20t,urvan z18t,v6 sigma,starion's,la lancer 2.6t aka 4u2no,gc galants
vn/lexcen turbo ,202 six 1200 ute,gh sigma turbo's
escorts,et turbo's,rx7 s3 13b jay port,ta22 celica
Only time i use my AFR/Boost gauge is when im diagnosing issues (which is pretty much daily with the aristo ), Underload im busy watching the Road/my surroundings I personally would prefer Trans temp than Boost, with Boost been optional/accesible when required...But thats only because i run a Stall converter with no lock up function atm
Had previous cars with Volt / Oil pressure and really only watched them on startup / cooldown
You have a warning light on the dash for low oil pressure, Oil temp can be useful but more than likely just make you paranoid, have to be pushing the car pretty hard to get anywhere near a temperature thats going to do damage (im talking hard track work, or lots of hard irresponsible driving on the street) Plus side to the oil temp guage is oil temp takes alot longer to come up to operating temperature than Water temp, so can help if your that sort of person that likes to make sure everything is at 'operating' temperature before giving the car any sort of hard time
Depends what you want the guage for, and how the car is used, No point having an AFR guage if you dont understand what it is meant to read / cant adjust anything...Personally unless you can diagnos an issue with the information the guages are giving you there is really no point in having them
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