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If im going the turbo route with a 01 ex manuel,, what would be the most usefull gauges?? I could see Air/Fuel for monitoring the fuel and a Boost gauge for what boost at, but ive see some with oil pressure and some with oil temp? what would be the best 3rd gauge? Also does anyone know a good turbo timer/ boost controller for a decent price?

 
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anybody, anybody at all???!! what are some good gauges!???

 
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EGT gauge

 
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EGT?

 
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EGT stands for exhaust gas temp. I chose to use the Greddy P/H/W EGT gauge for my turbo setup over a A/F gauge.

 
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why is the exhaust temp so important? i'm clueless....

 
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Well the hotter the exhaust temps the leaner your car is running, and the richer the cooler the temps will be. I will actually be getting a rough tune on my car through my EGT gauge. Then make a 3 hour drive to dyno tune.

 
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if ur getting autometer get all electrical that way ur not sending things like oil or fuel into the cockpit of ur car, a Autometer AF guage is relatively useless, zinkyroo has a greddy and its tight, anything by blitz is tight, all DEFi guages are tight but look to spend 150-200 a guage. i just have boost and use a feul pressure guage when necessary.

 
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EGT is worthless unless you know which side of sto you are on. richer doesn't mean cooler, over rich will bring up your EGT readings as well.

if you want gauges, get all with warning lights.

oil press, fuel press, and boost are the 3 must gets to save your motor in case of a failure.

oil pump failure will take your car to the grave as fast as blink of an eye.

fuel press drop during boost will do the same for you with a boom

boost spike isn't that pleasant neither.

after all has been said, why did i say warning lights? well... how many people check all the gauges every other second? if any of the previous event happen and you don't know about it to let off the throttle and shut off the car within seconds, you can say bye to the motor.

yes.. eletrcial warning gauges are expansive, but they will be more useful than eye candy. many people have gauges, but yet, when **** happens, they still don't know about it. since they are so use to the gauges after the first day, they never look at them anymore. any gauges without warning lights are only good for drag cars, since on the track you can focus on looking at all gauges for that few sec you are dashing down the strip. but for long road trips, i don't think anyone can scan all gauges every other sec without getting tired...

defi makes awesome warning gauges with chain link abiliity which makes install less messy.

as far as EGT goes, don't bother with it. unless you take your car to the dyno with wideband and map every a/f value to the temp and you are sure which side of the sto you are on every time you look at your EGT... so EGT is pretty much worthless.

If you want to tune the car yourself, get yourself a windband with logging. get a g tech pro and hit the track. if you are new, j&s safeguard will save you from your mistakes.

 
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So it's Oil Pressure, Fuel Pressure and Boost, what would be a good price on those,...

o and by the why do boost gauges come in electrical??
cause i can't seem to find any

 
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http://www.gruppe-s.com/Defi/defimeter.htm

 
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why are Feul pressure gauges so expensive, they're lalmost 200 dollars!!

 
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u mean from this link, if so all DEFi guages are that much

 
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With the EGT gauge what exactly do you look for? What should it be if you are running normal? What do you do if its reading too high or too low?

 
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With EGT, you need to run your car on a wideband and mark the readings while reading your EGT. But you will find, at every point on the lean side, you will find the same reading on the rich side. e.g. 12:1 for most hp yield. 13:1 can be 1100 degrees while 11:1 can also be 1100 degrees.

So, EGT is only useful if you have already gauged it with a wideband. Or rather, you are just using it to make sure there is nothing wrong with your car, not for tuning.

 
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actualy even Autometer one are like 200 dollars....

and waht the true benefit with buying electronic gauges instead of mechanical...

 
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yea, how do you tell if somethings wrong with the egt ?

 
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most NHRA races wont allow u to have mechanical guages inside the car, thats why u see them on the hood, mechanical guages actually have to have the item ur measureing fed into the guage, FP, gots to have gas running to it, Oil Prs, gots to have oil runing to the guage, there for it may not read acurately, electrical reads more accurate and uses more wiring thus being more expensive

 
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i guess u need to find out how hot is to hott