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Who out there has installed Faze guages in thier 1.6's before? To be more precise, the air/fuel guage. My question is, for the O2 sensor by the header, what is the color wire that I have to tap into (signal wire)? As well, in order to dim, do our cars have a positive or negative dimming control?Please Thanks

EL905

 
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Positive dimming control if I'm not mistaken. I didn't even bother with tapping into a dimmer. Mine just lights up crazy bright as soon as the key is at ON position.
The 02 sensor wire should be white. The other wire should be green-black and I think that's a ground.

 
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ground, well i have the autometer gauges, and for the gound i just ran it to a good chasie ground, and connected to the white at the ecu, and for the dimmer well i connected mine and when i dimm my cluster my pods get brighter, stupid ****, gota fix that

 
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I had my a/f wired into my o2 and it mucked everything up and the sensor had to be replaced. I think the best way to wire that thing is going directly into the ECU.

 
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Hey Pharoh, how did it muck up? Mine tapped right into the o2 sensor at the EM, no problems so far...but now you got me scurred.

 
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Well first thing was sort of an oversight on my part. I didn't like the way the gauge was going back and forth all the time and not really finding a spot to stick to for any length of time. The car got kinda weird, sluggish and shiat, like my old teg used to be when the sensor went.
So I took it into the dealer and they took her out for a spin with their hand held attached to the ECU. The o2 came back with a low return which is bad because in order for the test to be a success there should be no reading at all. One of the techs said that to avoid this problem I should tapp the gauge into the ECU directly for a better, more acurate reading and to keep the o2 sensor from going **** up.

 
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Hmmm...that's strange, the gauge is not supposed to stick to any part for any extended period of time anyway - the ECU adjusts the A/F ratio continously and as such the voltage coming out of the sensor is dynamic. Mine moves back and forth all the time, but the car is still movin. Slow, but no slower than usual. Damn 1.7L engines!

 
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It'll move a lot until you get a fuel management system I believe

 
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Which I won't cause I'm cheap.

 
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Anyhoo, back on topic - I just talked to another friend who has the gauge tapped into the sensor wire in the engine bay, and he says he's still OK. Now you've made TWO people nervous.

 
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yeah i heard the if you tap into where the o2 sensor is that you could ***** it up, and that you should tap it at the ecu, and thats what i did. LED go back and forth, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, red, yellow, green, yellow, red, lol

 
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Yup, mine too.

 
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Thanks for the input guys. I'm gonna tap into the ecu. Anybody going up to Barrie this Saturday, if so maybe you can show me the EXACT wire from the ecu? Appreciated

EL905

 
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i should have taken pics when i was putting it in

 
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Check the shop manual. It's huge, but it's in there somewhere.

 
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yup what he said^

 
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Yo, I noticed you have the sad, sad state of Nortel's stocks in your sig..pretty funny.

I worked for Nortel for about 4 years and I'm so glad I sold my stocks when I did...I could have taken such a pounding on that.

 
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well im making money on it right now, i bought at 1.72 so it all good right now, but i should have sold it whe it was at 11.90, greed go to me

 
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I'll wait for that one, I need a dooll pod cluster thingy first