i got a craven speed flex pod from another member and i decided to get rid of the autometer boost guage and go with a Stri SLM set up (black/amber)...im trying to decide what is more important...oil temp or oil pressure...cant decide...any ideas?

 

Definitely, oil pressure. If you don't have oil pressure, it doesn't make any difference what the temp happens to be.

 

thats what my thought process was

 

+1 My TR6 has an oil pressure gauge and I love it. Best indicator of engine health, much better than water temp. I know people who have quickly shut down the engine after a sudden loss in oil pressure. Without the oil pressure gauge they would have been much more likely to toast the engine. But if you get one you will have to get figure out "normal" pressures as the pressures can swing quite a bit due to oil temp, engine revs, viscosity of oil and age and condition of oil.

 

I also think oil pressure should be your choice.

I also have an exhaust gas temp gauge... anybody knows what temp should it be reading at high rpms?? What should be the max temp it should read?

 

hey do u all know of anyone with a R56 looking to do a guage set up?the person who sold me the craven flexpod didnt tell me it was for an R56! it fits the Cooper/Clubman

 

has anyone used the craven speed tapless oil adapter?

 

I've got the Cravenspeed oil adapter. For the most part it does what it's designed to do, that is to allow you to plumb in a oil pressure gauge and retain the stock oil pressure sendor and idiot light. Because my oil pressure sender was about 2-1/4" diameter, I had to modify my exhaust heat shield for clearance and still ended up using a 90deg elbow coming out of the 1/8" tapped hole to mount the sender. With that setup, the mass of the sender dangling and vibrating at the end of a dinky elbow eventually lead to some oil seeping where the eblow screwed into the adapter. I even tried using Loctite, to keep the joint from loosening but to no avail. Determined to make the damn thing work, and not have to worry about oil dripping or worse an oil failure, I relocated my oil sender to the wiper cowl area and attached it to the firewall with a custom made bracket. No leaking now. I would think that if you don't mind cobbling something together, you could probably come up with something that does the job for a lot cheaper cost.

 

actually instead of loctite...ive always had success with teflon tape...i used it on my OCC and not had a single leak

 

I'm 100% with you on the teflon tape but in my case the loctite wasn't so much to keep it from leaking as it was to keep the sender and elbow from jiggling loose from vibration.

 

actually ive used teflon tape in applications like this and it actually worked as a vibration dampener

 

you guys may have seen this, but there's a company working on stock-look gauges. A NAM thread here: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...ry-gauges.html