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Originally Posted by max_frontal_area
you can find a boost gauge in a junk yard for a few quit. if not pull an MPG
gauge out of benz and reorient (clock it differently) it will do pressure as well as vaccum. great quality gauges.
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Already brought a boost gauge months ago. Need to get around to fitting it tho. Sigh.
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also might i suggest an AIT gauge. interesting to see economy changes with warm and cool intake temps.
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Don't most modern cars have an external temperature display nowadays anyway? Maybe not as accurate as an AIT gauge but wouldn't be very much different. Even my cheap bottom-of-the-range 8 year old Astra has one and it doesn't even have ABS. But on the other hand, all post 1996 cars in the USA can use a scangauge which will display the AIT anyway? Unfortunately my car doesn't have an OBD-II port so I can't use one :-( I've now got 4 gauges to fit and nowhere to fit 2 of them! :-) Would prefer a EGT gauge over an AIT one anyway.
So far in my experience there's not a lot of variation in relation to temperature for my engine. If you look at my fuel log you'll see the consumption have stayed fairly static despite a temperature range between -1 to 15 deg C since August. In fact the best tank was recorded on the hottest day of the year! This despite ppl telling me diesels get better MPG when its cold. Ah well.