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Old 04-26-2010, 11:30 AM
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I'm going to be doing track racing this summer on a stock transmission for now. Was wondering what 3 guages I should purchase, I'm going to get a tranny temp guage, but not sure for the other2.. oil pressure, oil temp? air/fuel.. Some guidance here would be great!
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I have one of these, it plugs in to the OBD2 port and you can see every thing the sensors are telling your computer.
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+2 for the Aeroforce Interceptor gauge!! If you have the money get one! Love mine. However it does not display any oil settings (temp or pressure) as these are not monitored by the pcm.
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Oil pressure and water temp are the most important i think.
thoes aeroforce gagues are nice but expensive.
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Depends also on your future mods to? If running boost or nitrous consider fuel pressure gauge.
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i was thinking of trans temp, oil pressure, and not sure for the 3rd, dnt really wanna spend money on aeroforce yet. I might be running nitrous at somepoint, but not sure when.. is oil temp a good one? or what should my 3rd guage be, that would be most beneficial to monitor?!
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The previous owner already installed the 3-gauge pillar when I bought the car. He went with water/oil/trans temp gauges which seems to be a good choice. You already have a oil pressure gauge in the instrument panel. I'm pretty sure anyways.
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For a Nitrous setup, I think the other two should be Bottle pressure guage, and AFR gauge. For a forced induction setup, Boost gauge and AFR gauge.
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I went with Nitrous Pressure, Fuel Pressure and a Wideband A/F Ratio when I added the gauges to compliment my nitrous setup. If you're staying N/A, I'd go with Oil/Water/Trans temps.
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Trans temp, oil temp, and an analog clock.



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