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Re: Your Gage Comments

To: "Lawrence E. & Cathy R. Mayfield" <lemay@hiwaay.net>,
Subject: Re: Your Gage Comments
From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:38:06 -0800
Mayf,
I use a fuse block with 20 amp fuses. I had an entire electrical system
destroy itself at the lakes one year, Never again!
Skip in Texas where it is much cooler!

At 07:56 PM 1/20/00 , you wrote:
>I want to thank all who posted on the gage questions I asked. I now have to
>ponder...
>
>I would like to say that the primary instrumentation is Oil Pressure, Tach,
>Water Temp. These three gages are just below eye sight level (don't want to
>take my eye off the road so to speak) and are in line horizontally with the
>most important to me first (oil). All of the other things I thought I
>wanted were for tuning on the chassis dyno. It seems to me that boost
>pressure is very important because I'll be able to adjust while in the
>cockpit. A/F indicator is a tuning aid. Fuel pressure because it may be the
>first indication of lean running? Volts, well.. All these supplementary
>gages are not in the line of sight so I shouldn't spend much time on them.
>The tach has a shift light so primarily I'll be watching it to tell me when
>(full manual automatic over drive). I will have a master cutoff switch
>located on the panel as well as starter button and toggle switches for
>ignition, fan, fuel pump, water pump(maybe). These are on the right side
>where a simple sweep of the right fingers can shut eveything down. I will
>have a switch on the left side for a tail light. 
>
>The engine management computer that I plan on running has a data logging
>feature so that should take care of everything but EGT. 
>
>Now for the final *yeah, right!) question: do all of you use a fuze block
>of some sort or do we just say to hell with fuzes and let 'er rip? 
>
>mayf (anxiously awaiting)
>
>
>
>L.E. Mayfield
>124 Maximillion Drive
>Madison, Al. 35758-8171
>1-256-837-1051
>
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