Guages

[Neil VR6 0]

I have two guages mounted in a pod just in front of the gear stick, volt and boost. Whilst they look trick and are actually useful, they are a bit "Fast & Furious" in that they light up in 7 different colours and light the whole car up at night. They also dont remember your selected colour and come on red as their "default" setting. Hence I want some grown up guages, simple black, backlit jobs. I'll probably get some Tim ones or have a look on the web. When I get the new guages, can I literally plug them into the holes and connect the old wires up to the new guages or will I have to wire them all up again. The voltmeter is no problems as I could wire it up to a circuit in the dash. However, with the boost guage would I have to route a new sender through the bulhead etc or can I solder the sender wire from the old guage to the wire coming out the back of the new guage? Cheers

[Henny 0]

just about EVERY boost gauge I've seen use a tube to the back of the gauge to provide the vacuum/boost to it... You should be able to swap the gauges straight over if you buy some new ones to do the same things... 8)

[gibber 0]

As for gauges autometer ones go for silly cheep money on ebay, and a leagues ahead of tim!

 

And I concur with Henny on the wiring/plumbing of the boost gauge.

[Henny 0]

only thing to watch out for Autometer gauges (and it caught me out! :oops: ) is that they're American and therefore use Imperial thread sizes etc... :roll: :evil: Shouldn't be a problem with what you want (volts + Boost) but be careful if you want to put in oil pressure or temp gauges too... :wink:

[Neil VR6 0]

Thanks all. I phoned up a nice chap at http://www.gbdriver.co.uk and ordered some. They stock loads and I ended up with black faced Splitfire ones. He said they were reliable and they're a good looking guage, not too Max Power!

[pablo_vr6 0]

Ive had autometer carbon ones before - nice gauges :)