purple-rado 0 Posted February 11, 2004 Hi guys, Got another wee problem. I have a set of auxcillary gauges oil temp, voltage and oil pressure. I just have a problem with connecting up the oil pressure gauge. I have the twin pole sender for it and was told that it can be fitted to the top of the oil filter housing. I have had a look and there is two srew in sensors there and am not sure which one to remove from there. Also was thinking of the location of the gauges. I have seen a raddo with the 3 gauges fitted where the ashtray and lighter go. Has anyone done this and if so how is it done. Does it involve cutting out the back bit of the area. Please can anyone help. Many thanx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidwort 0 Posted February 11, 2004 On the 16v it's the front switch that you replace for the 2 pole sender, it's the low pressure one if that helps, each sender should have the pressure range stamped underneath if you are unsure. I've also seen a G60 with a 52mm boost gauge in the space occupied by one of the centre dash air vents, actually looked pretty good mounted here, and nice and high up, then you could put the other two in the cubby hole. Fiiting 3 below the ash-tray is possible but a bit of a squeeze and 3 where the ash-tray is would need quite a bit of butchering of the dash. David. Hi guys, Got another wee problem. I have a set of auxcillary gauges oil temp, voltage and oil pressure. I just have a problem with connecting up the oil pressure gauge. I have the twin pole sender for it and was told that it can be fitted to the top of the oil filter housing. I have had a look and there is two srew in sensors there and am not sure which one to remove from there. Also was thinking of the location of the gauges. I have seen a raddo with the 3 gauges fitted where the ashtray and lighter go. Has anyone done this and if so how is it done. Does it involve cutting out the back bit of the area. Please can anyone help. Many thanx Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
purple-rado 0 Posted February 11, 2004 Cheers mate, ill get on the case to 2nite and see if i can get the thin gowrking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
purple-rado 0 Posted February 11, 2004 By the way i saw from your signature that you had your engine bored toa 2l and had the manifold gas flowed. How much of an improvement was thing over the 1.8 and how much did this set you back. Its just that i'm getting a little tired of the 1.8 16v performance. dont get me wrong its a nice torquey engine up at 4.5+ revs but it just lacking that litle extra umph which i feel could be freed up somewhere. Know wot i mean. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted February 11, 2004 Also was thinking of the location of the gauges. I have seen a raddo with the 3 gauges fitted where the ashtray and lighter go. Has anyone done this and if so how is it done. Does it involve cutting out the back bit of the area. That'll be me then... 8) there's a thread going on at the moment about gauge locations, have a look HERE 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
davidwort 0 Posted February 11, 2004 By the way i saw from your signature that you had your engine bored toa 2l and had the manifold gas flowed. How much of an improvement was thing over the 1.8 and how much did this set you back. Its just that i'm getting a little tired of the 1.8 16v performance. dont get me wrong its a nice torquey engine up at 4.5+ revs but it just lacking that litle extra umph which i feel could be freed up somewhere. Know wot i mean. It's not cheap and you'll never cghange the basic characteristics of the engine, but a 1.8 can be improved a great deal with a 2.0 block and a good qualitygas flowed head. ver roughly, the 10% capacity increase gives about 10% more torque and something approaching 10bhp more power at high revs, the head can give 15bhp or more depending on the quality of the work. http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4582&highlight=power+plot Before I blew my headgasket I was regularly getting at least the standard torque of a standard 2.0 16v plus about 30bhp more at 6000rpm, generally the calculated flywheel bhp was about 165-170 and the wheel bhp at least 20bhp more than standard. head approx 600quid block 1400 quid new from TSR, but could be done for a couple of hundred using a second hand corrado or passat 9a or audi 80 sport block David. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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