converting boost guages,
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converting boost guages,
Just had another crazy idea.
Just got some Aux Guages 'Boost/oil/voltage'
But as I don't have a Turbo the boost guage is sitting idle.
My idea was to convert this to a manifold pressure guage, is this possible? If so please elaborate.
All the best all.
Just got some Aux Guages 'Boost/oil/voltage'
But as I don't have a Turbo the boost guage is sitting idle.
My idea was to convert this to a manifold pressure guage, is this possible? If so please elaborate.
All the best all.
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Could you get something like this and then just swap the internal bits of the gauge into the turbo gauge, and then it'd work how you want it to?
Just a thought!
Ben.
Just a thought!
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i had one on my car you can just link it to any small pipe from the manifold as they all have the vavum from it.
the idea is it should be in the - when ideling as the engine is sucking in air but as you floor it the needle will goto 0 as the pressure is equal to the atmospheric pressure.
the idea is it should be in the - when ideling as the engine is sucking in air but as you floor it the needle will goto 0 as the pressure is equal to the atmospheric pressure.
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Or what about for your fuel pressure regulator? Dont know much about it, but i know you can fit a gauge to the side of the FSE where the brass cap is screwed in...???
Or just tee in another vaccuum hose to the one going to your FSE and that might give you the manifold pressure reading.
Might not. It'd do something though! Try it!
Or just tee in another vaccuum hose to the one going to your FSE and that might give you the manifold pressure reading.
Might not. It'd do something though! Try it!
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Hi,
You have no trouble at all
You can pull a tiny hose to the manifold (there must be a connecton still free) else drill a hole in the mani fold , just under the diameter of a small copper pipe. grind an end like a pencil, and knock it gently in. use a piece of hard wood not to dammage (mushroom) the top. Because of the wegde and the metals are soft its perfectly closed. eventually apply some loctite, or silecon.
This is how someone made a vacuum connection for my meter in my old DAF. (this thing functions great, it the must important meter in the car as it really is a fuel economy meter. Comes handy as you drive 1 liter in 9 km average)
secondly there is no trouble building in the clockset as it comes to the manometer: the first part (the white part) functions as any vacuum meter. If you can accept the pointer is never going in the yellow or red, you do fine. So the pointer moves in any ES in the white secion, just as a normal vacuum meter.
luck
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You have no trouble at all
You can pull a tiny hose to the manifold (there must be a connecton still free) else drill a hole in the mani fold , just under the diameter of a small copper pipe. grind an end like a pencil, and knock it gently in. use a piece of hard wood not to dammage (mushroom) the top. Because of the wegde and the metals are soft its perfectly closed. eventually apply some loctite, or silecon.
This is how someone made a vacuum connection for my meter in my old DAF. (this thing functions great, it the must important meter in the car as it really is a fuel economy meter. Comes handy as you drive 1 liter in 9 km average)
secondly there is no trouble building in the clockset as it comes to the manometer: the first part (the white part) functions as any vacuum meter. If you can accept the pointer is never going in the yellow or red, you do fine. So the pointer moves in any ES in the white secion, just as a normal vacuum meter.
luck
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They have what you are trying to do on Lada Samaras..Might be able to pull the stuff from one of them at a scrappy.
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My boost/vacuum guage thing works really well, but suprisingly it seems to pressurise when i accelerate? I thought it would form a vacuum and pull the needle anticlockways, so actually it works much better then expected. So all you gaugeless ES/S people get some turbo gauges!
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