Country Boy

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Which do you perfer? I know either has their goods and bad, but is it worth the extra $130 for the electrical?

2002 Trans Am

I believe you can only run an electrical fuel pressure guage inside the car if you plan on racing...so electrical it will be

Assassin

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boost = mech., FP = elect.

kp

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Thats fuel pressure that has to be electric in the car..

The cool thing about the autometer electric gauges is they have a peak recall so you dont have to kill yourself watching the boost gauge to see whats going on Plus they also compensate for barometric pressure wihch makes them pretty accurate. Its a lot to spend on a gauge though, I had one in my last camaro and its a cool gauge.

Boostaholic

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mechanical boost gauge, and electronic for fuel as its required by any nhra track.


I also run a mechanical oil pressure gauge

Mike 01WS6

Mech boost gauges work well, and are cheaper. Take the signal directly from a vac source. Electronic boost gauges can come with alarms, and preset warning points, to sound a tone/alarm/or light that notifies you of max boost, overboost, or whichever you choose. As said before, some also have a recall on them. Pretty nice if you have the extra money.

2002 Trans Am

Sorry if I started this thread off on the wrong foot....I thought you meant all guages involved in a boosted application

Red97Z

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I just purchased an electric autometer sport comp boost gauge, it was only $55, but will it perform as well as mech gauges if not better?

Country Boy

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I know the FP has to be electric I was just talking the boost/ vac gauge. The mechanical guage is like $60, but the electrical is like $200. Im looking at the Autometer Cobalt gauges.

Thanks for th replys.

maddboost

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Electric like Kevin said. The boost recall is really nice for tuning.

Country Boy

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The electric Autometer Cobalt doesnt have a memory recall function.

kp

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if it doesnt have memory or recall why spend the extra $$

Brains

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No joke, vacuum line is cheap If you want peak hold, stick a check valve in the line

Country Boy

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Uhhh... I dunno Thats why I asked. It just has a MAP sensor and a guage. None of that fancy stuffs. I figured its just another sensor to drive me nuts.

STALL UP

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I put the cyberdyne in my Z, both boost and fuel are elec and are awesome I got them from jegs and i love them.
http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...tegoryId=10331

kp

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I thought all the autometer guages that used the MAP sensor had the warning/peak hold but I have never looked at the cobalt gauges.

If not its just more wires to hook up as opposed to a little plastic line..

Mark98SS

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I have the Cobalt FP & boost gauges along with an AEM wideband on the A piller, I always forget to look at them in the traps. Nice gauges

Country Boy

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I love the way they look, especially at night. Thats why Im getting them I had the Ultra lite ones, nice at day, but the lighting sucks.

I guess Ill get the mech boost dude.

Ferocity02

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I had an electrical one. The only reason I went with that over mechanical what the peak recall and the warning light.

Country Boy

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Heres the one... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Autom...spagenameZWD1V