i plan on boosting my car what are all of the gauges i could use ? and what are the most important gauges i must have ? (and why)

 

ugh. i would flame you, but when i first started, i could see myself asking this bullshit. so here ya go. these are pretty much self explanatory, so if you need an explanation, just please, go kill yourself.

boost gauge
oil pressure
oil temp
water temp

and if you wanted, you can run a uego wideband from aem. but it's not really necessary.

 

No reason for oil temp or water guage once again you could buy them, but all you need is boost and oil pressure.

 

agreed, I ran oil pressure, boost, and EGT and recently added my wideband to the mix

 

I would say that a wideband would be my top choice. Then oil pressure, boost, fuel pressure. Stuff that is vital for your engine to run healthy is what you want to monitor.

 

We decided that we're only going to keep an oil pressure and water temp gauge in active view. Everything else that we need to see is datalogged through the S300.

Justification:
When the car's being driven hard, the boost gauge never gets looked at, and it's more comprehensive to view the manifold pressure through the datalog because you can compare it against other ECU inputs and outputs. In short, the boost gauge was useless since we never had any issues with boost creep or spiking. Even if we did, the S300's boost cut has been sufficient for any time that we've accidentally exceeded the intended pressure.

For the coolant temp gauge, we've had cooling issues lately, so a water temp gauge is going to be implemented to keep an eye on the coolant temps until we figure out the cause and resolve the issue. It may end up being permanent in the long run. Otherwise, if we know our cooling system is rock solid, then we don't need to monitor the coolant temp actively with a separate gauge.

 

thanks for the info