Oil, water gauges

peterwho · Postby **peterwho** » Sun May 26, 2013 3:16 am

Hey, so im slowly collecting all the parts so i can turbo and track my mx5, just wondering if i need to spend the money on oil pressure and water temp gauges or are the oem gauges in the dash good enough what are your thoughts

Planning to buy some prosports gauges from the US as theyre affordable and good quality apparently

Magpie · Postby **Magpie** » Sun May 26, 2013 5:45 am

Oil pressure i would say yes. You can look at some brands that make dual gauges. Innovate have a oil remp/pressure in one gauge as well as a Vacuum / Boost & Shift Light and Water Temperature & Battery Voltage. The gauges can be customised as well as logged.

Another solution is PXL that uses modules which connect into a multi-gauge as well as a multi-gauge for ODBII data.

Do you want to datalog the data as well?

peterwho · Postby **peterwho** » Mon May 27, 2013 10:36 pm

Yeah i have heard about those, sounds expensive though

Not really looking for any datalogging for the moment

deviant · Postby **deviant** » Tue May 28, 2013 12:08 am

http://www.elise-shop.com/high-precisio ... 53538ceb72

http://www.elise-shop.com/high-precisio ... 53538ceb72

timk · Postby **timk** » Tue May 28, 2013 5:42 pm

Those look cool but if you are doing track work then I'd suggest to get gauges with loud warning functions as you never have time to look at any of them, they really need to grab your attention.

zoomzoom · Postby **zoomzoom** » Tue May 28, 2013 10:24 pm

I like lights!

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These are just LEDs operated by outputs from the ECU. There is a pair for water temp under/over, oil temp/boost under/over, water pressure under 5psi(just on a switch) and the big strip is the holy sh#t light i.e. oil pressure low. I consider gauges to just be a secondary warning as I rarely look at them when driving. The bright lights generally get my attention.

Cheers,

Tim