Most useful Gauges?

[OonDeanisS]

I already have a tach, a fuel pressure gauge outside, an air/fuel gauge on the pillar, an oil pressure and water temp gauge in the vent, but i need another one to fill the third hole in the vent pod. Whats my best bet? volts? amps? (i wish i could say boost)

 

[86bluecobra]

i'm going to geta air fuel ratio gauge to see whats going on when i have mine juiced.

 

[djk8705]

wideban a/f guage... exspensive but a good one to keep and eye on

 

[bentley429]

I already have a tach, a fuel pressure gauge outside, an oil pressure and water temp gauge, but i need another one to fill the third hole in the vent pod. Whats my best bet? volts? amps? (i wish i could say boost)

How about nitrous

 

[djk8705]

beat me to it!

 

[OonDeanisS]

oh yea i have that on the pillar too, but thanks

 

[Daggar]

If you desire to have usable information from an Air/Fuel ratio gauge then it needs to be put through a wideband unit. If all you're looking for is something to fill the hole and give a pretty light show, then you can run an air/fuel gauge off of your stock narrow band sensors.

 

[OonDeanisS]

I'm going to get used to the car before i juice it, but definately a good idea.

 

[Sicarius428]

Vac gauge is nice.
Kevin

 

[OonDeanisS]

what does the vacuum gauge actually tell me? (obviously besides how much vacuum the intake has)...

 

[cardudeusa]

http://www.zeitronix.com/

 

[D347643]

the air/fuel gauge is most useless one you can get, narrowband readings are next to worthless. If you really want to view your air/fuel get a innovative xd1 and be done with it. Wideband is very much so worth the money. Vac gauges are nice but if you are going to get one you might as well get a vac/boost gauge incase you ever get blown. I have vac/boost, water temp, oil pressure, nitrous pressure, fuel pressure.

good luck

Drew

 

[Michael Yount]

I would say one of the most useful to have but almost always overlooked is oil temperature. And I was shocked at how high the oil temps were on my mostly stock 5.0L -- caused me to install an oil cooler.

 

[onefstsnake]

Where did you mount the cooler?

 

[Michael Yount]

Down low behind my front air dam with shielding so the hot air coming off the cooler (200+ degrees) goes under the car instead of back across the a/c condenser or radiator. Picture is with the front bumper and air dam removed obviously....I repositioned it further forward to make room for a small fan that will activate whenever my elec. cooling fans come on. For the gauge, be sure to mount the temp sender in the rear sump.

http://www.stangcity.com/showphoto.php/photo/2352/cat/500/page/3

 

[OonDeanisS]

how can i tell if my a/f gauge is wideband or not? All it says on it is AIR/FUEL and lean and rich

 

[Look Its Aaron]

I am pretty sure you do not have a wideband. You prob just have a crappy auto meter a/f ratio gauge.

Widebands cost over 300.

 

[D347643]

yeah if you have to tie into your narrowband sensor then it is not a wideband whatsoever. Naroowbands use a 0-1 volts sensor reading and a wideband uses 0-5 so its much more accurate and some widebands you buy can even be used in place of your stockers, giving simulated narrowband readings to your ecu and wideband readings to your instrument display or wideband gauge. I personally use a innovative lm-1 and tis great.

Drew

 

[OonDeanisS]

its not even autometer