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Jul 27, 2006 | 11:21 AM

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Boost guage: Mechanical or Electical

Just bought a Fuel pressure guage and now I am looking for a Boost guage... but is it necessary to have an electric vs. manual Boost guage for the LS1's?
What would yall recomend?

Jul 27, 2006 | 11:28 AM

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Mechanical is cheaper by far, and works fine. I went electric because I found a used one, and I wanted the warning light capability.

Jul 27, 2006 | 11:44 AM

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Mechanical are great, but my next one is going to be electrical and digital readout.

http://www.jegs.com/webapp/wcs/store...tegoryId=50251

These gauges look great in day or night

Jul 27, 2006 | 11:56 AM

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Mechanical cant lie or mess up.

Jul 27, 2006 | 12:04 PM

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Mechanical cant lie or mess up.

Think about this though, if a electronic one like the BS3 log messes up, your fuel is probably messed up too and you have big problems. Most electronic boost gauges are just a map sensor and little chip to read and display the results and I'd imagine they would be pretty reliable.

Jul 27, 2006 | 12:06 PM

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I like Mechanical

Jul 27, 2006 | 12:15 PM

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So it is really no more of a pain in the *** to run a mechanical than an electrical, its arguably more accurate, and 1/4th the price? Correct?

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Jul 27, 2006 | 10:11 PM

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Im getting a mechanical one because I don't have an extreme set-up that will allow me to set it for "kill" if I see a Dodge Viper next to me at the light.

I've just just got my Incon TT running yesterday and getting all the details/tuning worked out and I'll go from the 5 psi now to 7 psi until I can upgrade my shortblock a year or so from now.

If I had a killer longblock then I might get an electric controller to run "xx" normally, and if needed be able to set it to "zz" on the fly, but as it is 7 psi is my safe limit.