Gauges

[white4d96]

My friend gifted me a volt meter, so we made a little 'pod' out of the cubbyhole in the center of the dash. It's the perfect spot for some gauges. I'm thinking about putting in an oil pressure and oil temp gauge. Thoughts?

[WhatTheFehl]

My friend gifted me a volt meter, so we made a little 'pod' out of the cubbyhole in the center of the dash. It's the perfect spot for some gauges. I'm thinking about putting in an oil pressure and oil temp gauge. Thoughts?

I've always thought that if I ever put some sort of boosted engine in a 94-96 Grand Prix, I would put three gauges there: boost pressure, oil pressure and trans temp.

[white4d96]

Same here, but I figure a trans temp gauge won't really be useful in a basically stock car. When I bought the car they attributed the first motor's demise to loss of oil pressure (I'm thinking snapped cam?) so I figured that would be useful, same with temp. I would love to get a water temp gauge that's more accurate than the stock one, but it doesnt really make sense to have two of them.

[skitchin]

I started doing this! I got a bit stuck on the design though. I had just sort of dived in trying to make it - picked up a cheap sheet of abs plastic and got a hole saw drill bit. TBH where I got stuck was how how to keep it all in place. Also, doesn't seem like you could get more than 2 gauges in there. Might play around with some stuff here in a few, got the day off ^_^

Edit: Btw, thought it were worth mentioning that I managed to add an oil pressure sensor + keep stock low pressure sensor to keep the dummy light working.

[intern8tion9l]

i'm a big fan of oil psi and coolant temp guages

[BXX]

You iz OBD2, what the hell you need add on gauges for?!?

You could get real cool with a cheap scantool interface for PC and datalog like a pimp.

Orrr, just get an Aeroforce gauge or whatever it is and your'll all set.

[white4d96]

Skitchin where did you tap into for oil? I was mulling a filter adapter but if you have a better setup...

[white4d96]

You iz OBD2, what the hell you need add on gauges for?!?

You could get real cool with a cheap scantool interface for PC and datalog like a pimp.

Orrr, just get an Aeroforce gauge or whatever it is and your'll all set.

Aeroforce doesn't support our cars just the 97+. andi like how traditional gauges look.I'm trying to make this look semi stock

[BXX]

Your interior is painted and the car says Angry Prix on the back, it's far from stock


Just bustin your balls

[white4d96]

I so saw that coming like 2 seconds after I posted it

[skitchin]

Skitchin where did you tap into for oil? I was mulling a filter adapter but if you have a better setup...

The stock dummy sensor is on the front of the motor right next to the oil filter. I just used a 1/4" NPT tee adapter and sealed the shit out of the threads.

[skitchin]

Btw I was fooling around and it seems like you could really only get two gauges in that center cubby hole. Even then I think this gauge I have will be a squeeze. Only other gauges I can think to add would be transmission temp, voltage, and amps. I'd be happy just to get this damn thing in place >_<

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[Venom]

I once toyed around with the idea of running gauges in that cubby hole too. You could get three gauges to fit in there but you would have to fiberglass the front of the cubby there so the gauges would be more forward and then cut out some of the plastic behind it. In the end I did a 3 gauge pillar but even that grew old and I got rid of it.

[skitchin]

Something like this? Would definitely go abs plastic vs transparent.
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Also, while looking around for that I found this bad ass little switch panel

[white4d96]

That's kinda what I did with mine. It's a frosted plexi insert with a hole cut in it for the gauge. I'm mulling backlighting the plexi with LED's or just painting it.