why do peple get oil pressure gauges, and all thermostat, ect? can you guys list some stuff that people usually have on the guages and what they are used for. thanks

 

i have a oil gauge so i know when my oil is getting low. i try to check it everytime i fill up but sometimes i forget. also when im driving hard the b18c1 is known for burning oil so i can go through oil quick.

keith

 

what do you mean do you want someone to tell you what each gauge is for(oil pressure, egt, boost, etc)

 

I had a temp guage last year cuz my stock guage was broken and moved up and down almost as much as my tach.

Hey, that's really cool, I wish I had something like that. I have something pretty close to that, but I think mine is better, it's called an oil dipstick, it also tells me if my oil is low.....hehe...jk.

 

i meant like, and oil gauge shows this and that, and a fuel pressure guage shows this and that...ect

 

Which ones don't you understand?

 

i can tell you a few, but just to be a good guy, but first, you need to know that stock gauges are not accurate at all.
EGT (Exhaust Gas Temperature) - Is used on turbo cars on the turbo manifold on cyl #3 (can't remember exactly) and it tells the owner if the combustion is good and it can tell you if your timming is too advance or retard as well to detect pinging or detonation
Oil Pressure - Engines need oil pressures, especially at high revs ( the rule of thumb was something around 10PSI for every 1K RPM) so if you are reving the engine high and you notice low pressures you know you need to stop and check.
Oil Temp - As you might now, oil also works as a coolant for the engine, it keeps temps down and lubricate the parts, after 300 F oil starts to evaporate (depending on oil that's it) It also can tell you if you need to run an oil cooler. Remember that the higher the temp the less viscosity the oil has.
Water Temp - Pretty much the same as oil temp, but is a lot more accurate than your stock one
Air/fuel ratio - Very important when tunning a car, but never get the goofy autometer air/fuel ratio, get a lambda meter, they might be costly but it'll worth every penny, when tunning a turbo car at WOT you look at something 12.5 and when tunning an N/A car you look at something around 13.5 at WOT, off course, but when you tunned for cruising you tunned for something around 14.7 which is stoick.

I know there are more, but these are the important ones, plus i'm tired of writting
Hope it helps

 

thanks a lot, i need info liek that, exactly like that. not just any specific gauge, but any gauge

 

no problem, any time.
Now you know why people have those after they spend more than 3K on their engines. Is the only real way to know if everything is working in the proper order

 

Good post

 

I have an a/f gauge for the light show.

 

boost gauge= shows the psi a turbo system is running at

vacuum= Measures the lack of pressure that helps to spool turbo(dont quote me)

volt= volts cant really say much

for the most part the gauges describe themselves

 

The autometer a/f guage isn't really that bad. I wouldn't recommend it for tuning purposes but when your on the throttle and it reads lean, then you know you have a problem. It gives you a general idea of what's going on.

 

it drove me nuts trying to figure it out 3/4 of the lights are always lit so i ordered a techedge wb02

 

Good choice

 

thank you its in the mail as we speak(type)

 

i whish i could buy stuff like that and do mods

 

i dont make too much i just have misaligned priorities.

 

sorry, didn't mean to insult, and lol to the misaligned priorities

 

That's a dirty lie... I had my alternator brushes wear out slowly over time, meaning my voltage sloooowly dropped with no 'check battery' warning, until finally in the middle of one fine autocrossing day the car didn't have enough battery voltage to start... a voltmeter would've warned me of this problem

So now I have one

 

Nice way to proce the hater wrong. IMO the only useless gauge is the one thats a clock.


[Modified by EF9_SiR, 11:50 AM 2/24/2003]

 

how was it a lie the meter would have told you how many volts and im not a hater i love my car i know i blow all my money on it and continue to do so

 

If you are using an oil gauge to tell you when your oil is low, you are doing damage to your engine! Oil gauges do not measure level like a fuel gauge does. Rather, they measure oil pressure. And if you are running your engine with so little oil that the oil pressure is dropping before you add any, you are damaging your engine. The proper thing to do is check your oil from time to time and add oil when needed. The frequency with which you check your oil should depend on oil consumption. In other words, the more oil your engine uses, the more often you should check your oil.