2G Official Wiring Prorsport Electronic Boost Gauge Thread

[alice]

I have been searching around all of the forums and I have yet to find a straight answer as to how to wire up the Prosport amber/super white electronic boost gauge. I am trying to make one thread with a few solid routes for wiring the gauge including where you tapped for power, ground, 12v accessory (to illuminate the gauge white), 12v light (to illuminate the gauge amber when the head lights are on. Additionally, I am trying to compile a method to wiring the boost sensor as well. Did you just wire the boost sensors power and ground to the same location as the gauges power and ground? Let us know if you are wiring in a 1g or 2g also as some of the wire colors may be different.

Lets try to get the Prosport Electronic Boost gauge amber/super white all wired up correctly so others can follow. Thank you for any help with a mini-write up and anything else you can offer. It will help the DSM community for some time to come I am sure!!

 

[black_gst]

this past weekend i helped my friend wire up a water temp and oil pressure prosport gauges.

well 1st let me say they are stupid.

2nd one the sending unit for both they have a 12v and a ground. so if you feed the sensor power, and then ground the other side it doesnt work.

if you feed the 12v side and wire the ground back to the prosport harness, it doesnt work.

what you have to do it both, you feed it 12v and you run the ground back to the harness and add an inline ground to the chassis somewhere.

no where on the instructon does it tell you to do this!

my personal opinion is whoever designed these gauges is a moron!

hope this helps!

 

[alice]

Here is how I plan on wiring up my Prosport gauges. Can some one please verify that this will work? Also, I plan on powering my 3 Prosport gauges and my UEGO from the cigarette lighter. Will the circuit handle the added draw?

Wiring Prosport Gauges-Amber/Superwhite:

-Red-12v Power-Cig Lighter
-Black-Ground-Bolted to chassis
-White-Illuminate gauge white with headlights off-Cig lighter
-Orange-Illuminate gauge amber with headlights on-Dimmer switch (any of the 2 outside wires?)
-Green-Electronic boost sensor

I will also power the boost sensor from the cigarette lighter. Essentially I will have 5 things drawing power from the cigarette lighter and I am concerned that the circuit might not be able to handle the added draw. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank You.

 

[alice]

I want to power 2 of my gauges from the radio to reduce the circuit draw from the cigarette lighter. Which wire would I get power from on a 2g radio harness?

I think it's either red with black stripe (+12v battery wire) or blue (12v ignition power). Any help is greatly appreciated!!

 

[1gDSMike]

1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse Car Stereo Wiring Diagram

 

[alice]

Awesome, thank you. The link isn't working for me though but I think I have seen that page before.

Additionally, does the dimmer switch only get power when the headlights are on? I just bought some prosport gauges amber/superwhite style. I am wondering if I can run the orange wire that makes the gauge amber when the headlights are one right from the dimmer switch or either of the 2 outside dimmer switch wires.

 

[alice]

I am planning on powering my 3 Prosport gauges, wideband, and Prosport electronic boost sensor from the cigarette lighter. Will the circuit be able to handle it? If not, where else should I tap for ignition power? Also, is the radio power wire on the 2g blue?

 

[Friend-O]

12VDC/10A DPDT Plug-in Relay - RadioShack.com

run a 10 gauge wire directly from the battery and the interrupt connection to your headlights and a keyed 12 power line (ie: cig lighter) for a super clean install with the above relay.

 

[1gentalonfan]

I'm running mine off the mpi relay with a little fused connection. And no gauges don't take hardly any power at all to function but the cig lighter is NOT a good spot to wire them in, especially not the wideband.

 

[1gentalonfan]

Cig lighters are a terrible source for gauges. I have the prosport electronic boost gauge that i just wired in early last winter along with my lc-1 wideband and gauge. I took power for all of it from the mpi relay which is bolted right by the ecu on the passenger side (I have a 1g by the way). There is a big red wire that ia stripped a section of and soldered in an inline fuse and soldered everything to that. The positive for the gauges, the boost sender and the wideband controller, as well as the orange wire because i just wanted it to glow blue the whole time(I have the blue/white). The grounds i grounded by the ecu on a spare bolt that had no other grounds(to avoid ground interference). To get into the engine bay with the wiring I ran them through the little boot where the speedo cable runs through (sorry 2g guys you have an electronic speedo so no cable hole for you).

so to clear it up, the red wire from the boost sender, and from the gauge and the orange wire from the gauge(for always blue light) were wired to the mpi relay. Both black wires from sender and gauge were soldered together and went to a bolt by the ecu on the center console, and the white wire from the sender gets hooked to the green wire from the gauge (for the signal). The white wire only gets hooked up if you want it to change from colored to white, other wise just cover it up so it doesnt ground out. The combination for color and white is as follows. To have always white connect just the white gauge wire to the mpi relay (switched power). Always blue (or your color) is the same but with the orange wire. To get blue during the day and white at night hook orange to switched power (mpi relay) and the white to your headlight switch(sorry not sure what wire that is, shouldnt be hard to find though). For white during day and blue at night its just the opposite. Orange to headlight switch and white to mpi relay. and for the record my gauge looks and performs awesome.

 

[KaLo_o]

I'm running mine off the mpi relay with a little fused connection. And no gauges don't take hardly any power at all to function but the cig lighter is NOT a good spot to wire them in, especially not the wideband.

my wideband has 2 conections to the battery and 2 ground conections and also has a switched 12v conection, im pretty sure that the wideband dosent get power directly from the 12v switched power but gets power from the battery when that switched 12v wire is activated. correct me if i am wrong... i have the AEM uego analog wideband gauge

 

[TSITurbo95]

I am running mine with a add a fuse to the fusebox. Works flawlessly.

 

[SexyDSM95]

I just finished mine up last night, this is what I did -
Red (12v Constant) - Fuse tap
Black - Ground
White - (+ side Green/Yellow wire IIRC) Dimmer Switch
Orange - Cig. Lighter

Hopefully you figured it out by now, if not, hope this helps. My gauge are white/amber so the color of wire may vary. I will be installing an oil pressure gauge as well, thankfully I will be using the daisy chain. Only have to do the wiring once!

 

[waggs187]

I just finished mine up last night, this is what I did -
Red (12v Constant) - Fuse tap
Black - Ground
White - (+ side Green/Yellow wire IIRC) Dimmer Switch
Orange - Cig. Lighter

Hopefully you figured it out by now, if not, hope this helps. My gauge are white/amber so the color of wire may vary. I will be installing an oil pressure gauge as well, thankfully I will be using the daisy chain. Only have to do the wiring once!

Which fuse did you tap into for the 12v constant?
Where did you ground?
did you use the fuse for the cig. Lighter?

Thanks in advance!

 

[SexyDSM95]

Which fuse did you tap into for the 12v constant?
Where did you ground?
did you use the fuse for the cig. Lighter?

Thanks in advance!

Fuse tap - door lock on the fuse kick panel
Ground - to chasis
Cig. Lighter - red wire

Sent from my Droid

 

[AG 305]

i got the green/white boost gauge and i want to know how to wire it so that it stays white only, if thats even possible any help would be nice.

 

[project98dsm]

Yea it's possible. Just scroll down and read where someone just posted on what to do to make your gauge stay white the whole time. I have the amber/white, but mine stay amber the whole time...I'm thinking about switching though because amber can be kinda hard to see during the day. It's been a while since you posted so if you have any questions just hit me up.

 

[DSM's 4 life]

Tap into the wires on the right of the ac vents my plugs are not even used so I can draw as much as I want.

 

[estoyaqui30]

Red +12DVC switched
Yellow +12VDC Constant
Blue Power antenna trigger wire

 

[Leonthefaded]

I could really use a picture of how you wired the sender unit to the wireharness that came with the gauge. I have the prosport digital boost gauge but I'm sure they use the same type of sender and wiring spec.