Electrical Gauges installed!
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If you have any other questions feel free to ask me. I would love to help in any way that I can.
Oh by the way I did check the adapter with the stock intake. The passenger side rear mount doesn't stay in, due to the high adapter. But when it is held in place by the single screw it isn't going anywhere. The fronts still hook in it's just not as solid as it is stock.
Oh by the way I did check the adapter with the stock intake. The passenger side rear mount doesn't stay in, due to the high adapter. But when it is held in place by the single screw it isn't going anywhere. The fronts still hook in it's just not as solid as it is stock.
Last edited by masterd78; Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14 PM.
Is it possible for the gauges to be wired to be in this red mode all the time instead of the black/bluish color?
Maybe some one already mentioned it and I missed the post, but how accurate is the water temp in the reservoir? Anyone compared it to say the water temp reading from the OBDII connector?
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Yes, you can wire it to be red all the time, or the white/blueish all the time. It's your preference. I went with the white for daytime, because it is a little bit easier to see in the light. As for the water temp gauge, I can't say how accurate it is. What is regular operating temp? I need to fill the coolant back up, because it's a little low right now. Had some spillage yesterday.
But my peak temp was at 200 degrees.
But my peak temp was at 200 degrees.
With the water temp, I just drilled very slowly and kept pulling out the pieces of plastic. I looked afterwards, and didn't notice any shavings in the tank. As for the boost, that is way easy! In fact that is easier than the water temp. You take off the intake, find the MAF sensor, undo it and put in the Alta adapter. Reinstall the sensor on top of the adapter and voila your done. Really easy. As for the white faces, I thought the same before. But now having them I really like the contrast, and having them black totally out when off is freakin sweet.

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I will try and take pics of the pod area. It is very very easy. You undo your tach with the two screws that hold it to the steering column. Then on the back of the tach, there are 3 screws. You pick which ones you want to use, undo the screw put the pod up and put the longer screw in and voila your done mounting the pods. I can take some pics of them blacked out in the morning. And as for drilling a hole in the firewall, the only two holes I drilled are the water temp sensor hole, and a small hole in the plastic firewall (seen in post #28, an arrow points at it). Once you get through the plastic firewall, all you do is make a slit in some rubber and bam your wires are inside. Easy! In fact taking the windshield wipers off was more of a pain.
2 small drill holes. Very easy. One in the plastic firewall, and one in the Fluid Resevoir. That one was a little scary, but it was actually really easy. The boost gauge took me a little longer, due to the fact that I had to wire all the power and illumination up to that one. Once I did that, the water temp was simple. I would say the boost took me a good 2 hours, because you have to take your car all apart, and wire the power, ground, and illumination. The water temp took all of about 15 minutes. Just do it!!



Very cool.

Darn it sounds like I may have to spend some money on these...