Installing Gauges, Oil Pressure, Water Temp troubles Options

[99GT]

Why are the prosport gauges or twosrus so cheap? cheap money wise. They look bad ass though. I'm getting them.

[jcbass7]

I love them, have been using them for a week now.. beware though, they are pretty deep so mounting in certain pods could be difficult.

But i love them so far

[jcbass7]

ok so i thought it was too xpensive to buy one of the radiator hose pieces to mount my temp sensor for the water temp gauge. So i went to home depot, bought a 3 inch long peice of 1inch pipe from the plumbing department. Its the kind that is threaded on both ends. Then i went home and found out what size tap i needed and borrowed a friends taps and drilled a hole and tapped the correct threads in.

Then i screwed my temp gauge in, and inserted the whole thing into my top radiator hose

total cost: 94 cents
total time: 30 minutes give or take



For the oil pressure gauge im just going to suck it up and buy the tuner toy piece, unless i can get clever and figure out some cheap effective way..

[presure2]

ok so i thought it was too xpensive to buy one of the radiator hose pieces to mount my temp sensor for the water temp gauge. So i went to home depot, bought a 3 inch long peice of 1inch pipe from the plumbing department. Its the kind that is threaded on both ends. Then i went home and found out what size tap i needed and borrowed a friends taps and drilled a hole and tapped the correct threads in.

Then i screwed my temp gauge in, and inserted the whole thing into my top radiator hose

total cost: 94 cents
total time: 30 minutes give or take



For the oil pressure gauge im just going to suck it up and buy the tuner toy piece, unless i can get clever and figure out some cheap effective way..

whatever gets the job done.
for the oil pressure gauge, DO NOT cheap out and use some cheap brass fitting. brass is soft, and will crack and split over time...spraying oil all over your engine...and if your not lucky..while your driving...BOOM

[DeW_H0e_GT]

ok so i thought it was too xpensive to buy one of the radiator hose pieces to mount my temp sensor for the water temp gauge. So i went to home depot, bought a 3 inch long peice of 1inch pipe from the plumbing department. Its the kind that is threaded on both ends. Then i went home and found out what size tap i needed and borrowed a friends taps and drilled a hole and tapped the correct threads in.

Then i screwed my temp gauge in, and inserted the whole thing into my top radiator hose

total cost: 94 cents
total time: 30 minutes give or take



For the oil pressure gauge im just going to suck it up and buy the tuner toy piece, unless i can get clever and figure out some cheap effective way..

mind showing some pics?..

ive gotten the greddy oil filter block/water temp adapter..both didnt fit my obx guages which i think is ricey but now im thinking twice about these "china* deals...now i have to go get some more fittings to install these cheap gauges...and sand down the water sensor from the guage.....(its too big to fit in the water temp sensor)...*sigh*