Absit
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- Dec 19, 2002
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Davenport,
Iowa
Well I got all but done and the rain came, so now I'm left with just a final few connections and I figured before I got it all buttoned up I'd seek the wisdom of the forums to make sure I didn't screw anything up too much.
I'm installing a VEI Systems Dual Boost/Wideband AFR gauge into a instrument cluster bezel dual pod. Instructions can be found here:
http://www.veisystems.com/docs/Instructions-D1-BOP-WBA-M.pdf
I'm planning on installing the sender where the red circle is on the attached picture (ignore the purple arrow, picture scavenged from the engine bay virtual tour). If for some reason the picture fails, it's on the back side of the driver's strut tower, next to the silver metal hose that does something I'm sure very important. I'm running 3 wires from that, through the steering boot, back into the car. The wires are +5v (to the sender), data, and ground - this is all fairly straight forward and I shouldn't have any issues with it. I have the sender T'ing into the standard line everyone suggests coming from the intake manifold to the fuel pressure thingamabob.
Now the gauge itself, well, I looked around for about an hour and didn't find a ground point I loved, and honestly I didn't really know what I was looking for, so for now I cut out my ash tray light and tapped the LIGHTS and GROUND to it, I tapped the +12V SWITCHED to the cigarette lighter center wire.
The gauge uses the LIGHTS wire to dim the gauge when it receives voltage, going into a night mode.
The expected result is the gauge will turn on when the car is turned on, will accurately read vacuum/boost, and will dim when the headlights are turned on. Based on my description of the install, will it work?
EDIT
Rain quit, went out and finished up and tested it. 100% operation, dims when the parking/headlights come on, -15 at idle, just gotta finish hiding the wire and trying to get the instrument cluster bezel to fit. Changed attachment to show the actual sender.
This is the first time I ever messed with anything electrical on my car, and I was terrified. I referred to the garbage instructions that came with the gauge and the Haynes manual repeatedly but at the end of the day I just had to wing it a few times and this is a very cool feeling.
I'm installing a VEI Systems Dual Boost/Wideband AFR gauge into a instrument cluster bezel dual pod. Instructions can be found here:
http://www.veisystems.com/docs/Instructions-D1-BOP-WBA-M.pdf
I'm planning on installing the sender where the red circle is on the attached picture (ignore the purple arrow, picture scavenged from the engine bay virtual tour). If for some reason the picture fails, it's on the back side of the driver's strut tower, next to the silver metal hose that does something I'm sure very important. I'm running 3 wires from that, through the steering boot, back into the car. The wires are +5v (to the sender), data, and ground - this is all fairly straight forward and I shouldn't have any issues with it. I have the sender T'ing into the standard line everyone suggests coming from the intake manifold to the fuel pressure thingamabob.
Now the gauge itself, well, I looked around for about an hour and didn't find a ground point I loved, and honestly I didn't really know what I was looking for, so for now I cut out my ash tray light and tapped the LIGHTS and GROUND to it, I tapped the +12V SWITCHED to the cigarette lighter center wire.
The gauge uses the LIGHTS wire to dim the gauge when it receives voltage, going into a night mode.
The expected result is the gauge will turn on when the car is turned on, will accurately read vacuum/boost, and will dim when the headlights are turned on. Based on my description of the install, will it work?
EDIT
Rain quit, went out and finished up and tested it. 100% operation, dims when the parking/headlights come on, -15 at idle, just gotta finish hiding the wire and trying to get the instrument cluster bezel to fit. Changed attachment to show the actual sender.
This is the first time I ever messed with anything electrical on my car, and I was terrified. I referred to the garbage instructions that came with the gauge and the Haynes manual repeatedly but at the end of the day I just had to wing it a few times and this is a very cool feeling.
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