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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 04:56 AM
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Default Turbosmart E-Boost Location in Camaros?
Where is a nice location for the E-Boost in camaros? You Firebird guys are lucky cause it fits snugly in the vent?
Does anyone have a pic of one installed?
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Old Sep 14, 2006 | 07:09 AM
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I put mine in the ac vent left of the steering wheel, I can post a pic later
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yes please do

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I put mine in the ac vent left of the steering wheel, I can post a pic later
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Turbosmart has a mount for the steering wheel, look very trick.

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Originally Posted by Blown SS
I put mine in the ac vent left of the steering wheel, I can post a pic later
Pic please!
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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 10:58 AM
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Doesn't the steering wheel mount get in the way of your visibility of dash? I don't like the looks of it. I know the smaller e boost two will fit in a pillar guage pod that is where mine is going.
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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 03:42 PM
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No it doesn't. It ends up in the void between the gauges. That is my car its on.
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If you have the smaller Eboost 2 than a little grinding will get it into the pillar. that is where mine is
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thats pretty sweet right there, aint it hard to read though?
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OHHH I need one jose u carry thoes?????
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What did you use as a blank behind the gauge? I really like the look of your setup, blown SS.
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Easy to read

I used a peice of plastic from a local sound shop to make the blank
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Here's the one I made for a customer, kept his A/C vent somewhat though...

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Originally Posted by Blown SS


I just found my location. Don't mean to copy you, but that is the only place that will look good IMO
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Has anyone tried to squeeze it into a guage pod?
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one more question, will the cold air hitting the back of the gauge damge it over time?
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I just bought a 60mm E-boost 2 in black face/silver trim ring. Setting mine in the middle A/C vent just like the Aerotech guage I did in my left vent using a real carbon fiber back-plate.












Blown SS,
Your EB-2 looks real good in the drivers left vent
MiaSSmaro98,
I don't think the A/C will hurt the guage too much if you don't run your stuff all the time. I rarely ever turn on the A/C, but the few times I've run the cold air on the Aerotech guage it seemed like it was fine.
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well i live in miami so my a/c is never turned off
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I live in Texas, so I doubt it's much cooler here. I've been to West Palm, Daytona, Miami, Tampa a bunch of times and I will agree it does get hot, but I don't drive the car enough to ever really worry about the heat. It only comes out at night .
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