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Good Oil pressure, Pyro, Boost gauges..

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Good Oil pressure, Pyro, Boost gauges..

Post by Hof »

Hi all,

Well the next part of my turbo project.. Need Oil pressure, Pyro, Boost gauges, pref matching..

Looking at Siemens VDO, any thoughts??

Also anyone know wheres a good place with good prices..

Cheers,

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Post by HotFourOk »

There was a thread stating some good sites for pyro's (A few US ones which work out cheap)... Some cheap ones can also be found on flEaBay.
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Post by me3@neuralfibre.com »

I just ordered 5 from Atlanticspeed - he's on ebay and has a website.

When (if ) they arrive I'll comment back here.

All Autometer. Prices good, not the absolute cheapest, but close enough. Email communication average.

The other choice was the no name electornic ones who are on eBay. They are pretty, but the ranges don't suit diesel as well, and no name.

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Re: Good Oil pressure, Pyro, Boost gauges..

Post by KiwiBacon »

Can't go wrong with VDO, not cheap though.

I got VDO boost and EGT gauges, stuck green LED's in them to match my dash lights.
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Post by rover1 »

i got VDO as well, simple guage, good quailty.
cheers Pete.

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Post by me3@neuralfibre.com »

It's getting harder to source VDO.
eGauges doesn't do metric, tried that.

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Post by ausyota »

me3@neuralfibre.com wrote:eGauges doesn't do metric, tried that.

Paul
Wanna bet?
look at the bottom of the page...
http://www.egauges.com/vdo_grou.asp?Series=Ultra_Lite
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Post by vanbox »

can vouch for egauges. excellent products. look the goods and very cheep. even including postage from the states. and QUICK. ordered 3 gauges on a thursday night, they arrived tuesday morning!

if you ask for metric. MAKE SURE they repeat that its metric. i ordered and it came imperial, they swapped it and paid for the shipping back, but took several weeks.

the gauges i bought can be found here....

http://www.outerlimits4x4.com/phpBB2/vi ... p?t=117267

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Post by evil_hitman »

for EGT i'm building myself.
using the below screen
http://www.lascar.co.uk/press/hi-res/PR ... lue-hr.jpg
Going to use same screen for water, oil, intake temperatures (haven't decided if i need to monitor all these or not), voltage, and air pressure.

haven't decided what to use for boost yet as they work better with analogue displays. If something fits in well enough with everything else i will just buy this one.

Reasonably simple to make most of it yourself if you're handy with a soldering iron (and even easier if you can read an electronic circuit)

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Post by Hof »

Probly just get the vdo ones, they seem like a decent price and decent quality..

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Post by dv8666 »

Never had any problems with autometers, in the last few cars, I've used 23 seperate gauges, including a big dollar metric electronic speedo with absolutely no issues
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Post by zagan »

I like the Defi-link gauges, these are Jap made.

They are electric they have a master box that sits in the engine bay you run 1 wire through to the gauges inside.

All the gauges are metric first with some imperail ones.

RPM, RPM/change light, water temp & psi, oil temp & psi, boost, pyro (this goes to 1200C most only goto 900C), and there's a couple others.

can be dear, head box is $200-$300 gauges are around teh $200 mark pyro is $350 but they are always dear.
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