[Shotimes] What are your favorite 3 add-on gauges?

[Ron Nottingham]

EGT gauges are great, if you have a turbo or supercharger. I wouldn't
suggest an EGT, unless you have a really wild N/A car that see's alot of
high rpm WOT conditions (like track days). An EGT is a great tuning tool,
but on a street driven N/A car, just a waste of space. I don't know what
mods you have, or are planning in the near future, but knowing this would
also help a little in determining what gauges would be the most critical. If
you had spray, I would say you need to have bottle pressure and bottle temp
along with fuel pressure. If you had a turbo or supercharger, boost/vacuum,
oil pressure, and fuel pressure.

Concerning the wideband O2's... Unless you have boost, spray, or wild N/A,
save the money for elsewhere, until you really need that level of tuning.
Also, knowing the current level of mods, or where you are planning on going
would help with the suggestions in this area :-)

Ron Nottingham - Dalton, GA
89 325i
90 SHO

"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] What are your favorite 3 add-on gauges?


> BTW, NO ONE has mentioned an EGT gauge (exhaust gas temperature).  These
> guys I was talking to made it sound like this gauge was the second coming
> of christ or something.  The rationale went something like, when you open
> up the intake and exhaust, it is likely the exhaust temperature will get
> higher and therefore more likely the occurrence of potential damage.  I
> take it that this is not an issue for SHOs.
>
> While I'm at it, these guys also mentioned the benefits of a wideband O2
> sensor with the stock PCM programming.  I've seen these sensors mentioned
> with a tuning device like a Tweeckr <sp>, but is changing the O2 sensor
> from narrowband to wideband alone a good idea?
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 92 Ultra Red Crimson
>
> On Sun, August 15, 2004 5:08 pm, Ron Porter said:
> > I know, I'm probably the "only" SHO owner who thinks that A-pillar gauge
> > pods look incredibly stupid & ricey!!
> >
> > I would put gauges in the console, with "idiot lights" that would catch
my
> > attention for serious problems.
> >
> > Ron Porter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
> > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:40 PM
> > To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] What are your favorite 3 add-on gauges?
> >
> >
> > I had a similar thought Ron.  Rather than ask that outright was
soliciting
> > input with as little information as possible.  These gauges are pricey,
> > but 3 should fit there okay, and I can use an A-pillar pod for
additional
> > gauges if I wanted to go to town with this stuff.
> >
> > Does anyone know where to get a DIN formfactor bezel that can be used
for
> > these gauges?  The Autometer catalog doesn't seem to list such a part
> > number.
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Carl Prochilo
> > 92 Ultra Red Crimson
> >
> > On Sun, August 15, 2004 2:35 pm, Ron Nottingham said:
> >> I would prefer oil pressure, oil temperature and water temperature. If
> >> you
> >> were wanting to keep the radio, move it to the space now occupied by
the
> >> coin/cup holder, and place the gauges in the space that was occupied by
> >> the
> >> radio.
> >>
> >> Ron Nottingham - Dalton, GA
> >> 89 325i
> >> 90 SHO
> >>
> >> "It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Carl Prochilo" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Going to have some Autometer gauges added to my SHO in place of the
> >>> coin/cupholder.
> >>>
> >>> First question is, is that an acceptable location for 3 gauges?
> >>>
> >>> Second, what gauge combo do you prefer?
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