It's a lame question, I know. But what should I be running in terms of gauges? Here's what I'm thinking...

Tach
Oil Pressure
Fuel Pressure
A/F or EGT

Does that sound right? Do I need the A/F or EGT at all? Should I run any other gauges like Volts etc?

Just trying to button up my project list and ensure that I'm montioring the important stuff.

Thanks,
Steve

 

i would go with oil pressure,fuel pressure,water temp. and maybe a vacum guage

 

No tach?


Steve

 

 

well ofcourse a tach i meant the other guages

 

What size are those gauges joe?

 

Here's what I have:



Here's what I'm thinking with maybe a few pods on the cross bar:



Steve

 

make sure you put the gauges where you can see them. if i got a dollar for every car that came in for dyno that had gauges in spots that you could never see going down the track, id have a lot of dollars hahaha


the gauges are just the standard 2inch and whatever. the tach i think its 5 and the boost is 3? i dont remember i got them a long time ago haha

 

I don't have a boost gauge, an egt gauge, an oil temp. gauge, an oil pressure gauge, a fuel pressure gauge or anything. lol I have a factory tach, a factory temp gauge, and a shift light!

 

For a strictly drag car? I would say tach, oil pressure (with a big oil pressure warning light), water temp (again with a 230 degree warning light) AFR, voltmeter, also EGT gauge if you know how to read one and you think it will help you. Oh, and fuel pressure gauge never hurts--mechanical one under the hood, and either a mechanical one on the hood or mech. with isolator on dash or straight electric in dash. Stuff like oil temp gauge isn't a necessity in drag car--road race car yes.

 

i have the gauges cuz aparently i thought it was a good idea to spend money.....datalogging is the best thing ever

 

haha, cause you watch them all while you're going down the track, right?

 

haha yup every one of them! or none....i swear i dont even look at the tach half the time.

sometimes i'll take a peak at stuff im im questioning something....or peak at water temp on the return road. but realistically you sure as hell cant watch all the gauges in 9 seconds at 150+ hahaha

 

I don't think i've ever watched the tach during a race, and i hardly ever shift by the shift light. I shift when it feels right and i look at the temp after i shut down. That's it. lol

 

yea sounds about right! ive never had a shift light in any of my cars ever though haha i just go off feel as well

 

I used a tach. oil PSi, and warter temp to make sure the motor was up to temp before I made my pass. Your not going to look at them going down the track any how so why have them.

 

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Me neither, I got a shift light and a Boost Gause that I may or may not hook up

 

You don't need any gauges for the dyno, Terry....

 

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wonder where u got those good looking gauges??

 

hell yea! gravy hooked i up on the gauges.........and i know i was a pain in the *** when ordering them too hahaha

 

I'm suprised at you Tony... no ADL?

 

Oh I know I'm not going to get to look at them and yes, this is a drag only car.

So tach, oil pressure with light, fuel pressure with light and water temp with light I think is all I'll need. Everything else will be logged from Hondata (at least I think so. ).


Steve

 

Ha, i wish, we can barely swing the M4. I can buy about 3 M4's for what an ADL costs. lol

 

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I knew that comment was coming.

I am hopimng to run the car for NOPI at MIR August 26th and 27th, we shall see if funds allow me to.

 

hurry up and get that thing down here terry. try to shoot for like wed/thurs of next week if you can. friday is going to be crazy here so i dont know how well that will work out. let me know