Last weekend mike and I started w/ this


did some of this to his hyundai



and only ended it w/ just getting the guages installed and lighting up, but not working yet


today, we hooked up the oil pressure guage

parts that go on the block


which go here, on the back side next to the oil filter


oil line coming out of the firewall



the end of the oil line which gets plumbed into the block w/a "T"


me trying to thread everything into the block


here it is installed into the block


whoa 60psi while the car is warming up!?!?


after fixing a couple of leaks, oil pressure settled to ~30psi at idle.

yshi - who also changed oil on his land cruiser and also flushed out the clutch master

yeck!

 

 

nice

 

Is that a mechanical oil pressure gauge?

 

 

yoshi youre growing into a mullet

 

Nice! What color sock did you put on the bulbs to make them match the ITR gauge lights?

 

... I keep telling you, Soup.
It's a pony tail!

 

Yes, it looks good. Too bad those colored bulb covers Autometer gives with the guages fade real fast.

 

clayton:
mike put on the orange bulb condums. hopefully, it won't fade quickly like mike mentioned

yshi - who hasn't had a haircut since july

 

5 guages, wowsers, whats the list?

looks nice nonetheless

 

CF gauges in an R

 

Yoshi,
Those guages look awesome!
Was it very hard to install them all?
What are the 5 that you have?

 

left side from the top
- water temp
- oil pressure
- oil temp
- exhaust temp
- batt voltage

 

Hey Yoshi!
What type of Autometer guages are those?
I noticed yours have the carbon fiber face to them.
Are those the "phantom gauges"??

Does anybody have any pics of the Phantoms if not?

nate

 

These are the phantom gauges :



and this is the gauges installed. - (No bashing my indiglo gagues, stock lighting made the OEM gauges hard to see ) They are on the brightest setting which I do not use when driving.






[Modified by canuck-mx6, 4:21 PM 11/25/2002]

 

You shouldn't tap a t-connector directly to the block. It will snap from all the vibration. Here's a proper way to do it. Click here. Fix it before it's too late.

 

Here is what you are looking for

 

thanks projeX and canuk.
I'll let mike know (maybe he'll see this thread?) about the work hardening of the brass

yshi - who'd hate to see the test car break

 

Yoshi, indiglos?!

When did you get the red S2000 seats?

 

hey yoshi i have the same guages did you just put the red cap on for that loko? do they light up any brighter with thta one? mine arent very bright and i sdidnt even put the color cap on , just the bulb

 

the pics yoshi posted were not those with indiglos.

 

You guys beat me to this. You definetely need to fix this. I had one crack on me recently. I had oil everywhere

 

before I get bombarded anymore IMs w/ the same question, please read the second line at the top. This is not my R, i just help work on it and learn stuff along the way

 

Ok so far we have pics of the carbon fiber and phantom guages, are there any other types of Autometers out there?