Must-have Gauges?

[unplugme71]

Since everyone says to start off with the AEM UEGO wideband and Boost gauge, what other vital gauges should I get while im placing the order?

EGT, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, Water Temp?

 

[wkmitsu]

The three most important gauges are wideband, boost and oil pressure. And if you want another besides those I would say go for water temp, and after that it's pretty much arbitrary.

 

[doubled07]

Those are the only two I have in my vehicle. I would say all the other factory ones are sufficient as long as they are working.

One that I would like to do is a boost gauge on my exhaust side to measure exhaust back pressure. This is how you can find out how efficient your turbo housing is. This is something you can measure once and be done. Nice to know kinda thing.

 

[Boomdeeze]

The ones I think are important are WB, boost, oil pressure, and water temp. I have all those plus im going a step further and getting an EGT and installing my volts gauge I have laying around.

 

[kchaazz]

I definitely agree with having both a wideband AND EGT gauge, especially if you have a built motor and run lots of boost on pump gas, which usually equals low timing up top which equals extremely hot EGT's, which can melt out your valve guides, turbine wheel and even a piston if it gets too hot. In my opinion, the two gauges compliment each other well. Im going with the above mentioned gauges, along with water temp, oil pressure, voltage and of course boost. (the reason Id like to have the water temp gauge is so that I dont have to look at the logger to check it; the volts gauge is just for convience as well)

 

[Boomdeeze]

I definitely agree with having both a wideband AND EGT gauge, especially if you have a built motor and run lots of boost on pump gas, which usually equals low timing up top which equals extremely hot EGT's, which can melt out your valve guides, turbine wheel and even a piston if it gets too hot. In my opinion, the two gauges compliment each other well. Im going with the above mentioned gauges, along with water temp, oil pressure, voltage and of course boost. (the reason Id like to have the water temp gauge is so that I dont have to look at the logger to check it; the volts gauge is just for convience as well)

My exact setup as well, total of six gauges. Its peace of mind know what is going on with better reading gauges.

 

[knochgoon24]

I have:
wideband
boost
oil pressure
and a Scangauge II.

The Scangauge II is OBDII, and shows my coolant temp, intake temps (post-turbo because of some stuff I've done), and battery voltage. It only works when I don't have something else in the OBDII port, but if so, then my laptop is in the car showing all that and more.

Ecu mod to make it so the CEL blinks to show the amount of knock.

At this point, the only other gauge I'd like to get is EGT.

 

[Boomdeeze]

Well I suppose Link is a gauge too so I have those six gauges plus Link monitoring the car. My stock boost gauge reads knock.

 

[knochgoon24]

The ScangaugeII is a little standalone obd2 logger. Pretty sweet.

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I've sent a few e-mail back and forth suggesting they try and support MUTII or MUTIII.

 

[dsmusmc]

For anyone with an auto a transmission temperature gauge is a must.

 

[sirslex]

For anyone with an auto a transmission temperature gauge is a must.

I know I'm going with boost, wideband, and transmission temp as my first three gauges.. unfortunately $$$ is tight and boost is all I've got so far. <sigh>

 

[unplugme71]

I decided on AEM WB, Boost, Oil Pres, and EGT. I just need to find a single gauge holder for the AEM and not sure where to mount it. The pillar will house the other 3 gauges.

 

[Indian]

I think water temp would be better than the egt, since you are going to have a wideband anyway. The egt is the gauge I look at the least.

 

[Ludachris]

I've got boost, oil pressure, oil temp, water temp, fuel pressure, wideband, and an unplugged EGT gauge. I'm actually selling a few of them:
Defi D-gauges - sold as a set - DSM Classifieds

I think boost, oil pressure, and wideband are a good start, but I do a lot of track events and water temp/oil temp became more necessary. EGT is a good safety net gauge.

 

[Imback]

If you really think about it during a WOT run you never look at your gauges just at the road and tach. Boost and wideband are the only one's i run.

 

[unplugme71]

If you really think about it during a WOT run you never look at your gauges just at the road and tach. Boost and wideband are the only one's i run.

Good point, but I do monitor the gauges while cruising and if/when you are tuning your vehicle. I'm not sure if water temp is as important considering you have a temp gauge in your vehicle already. EGT's compliment the WB in my opinion.

 

[sirslex]

Good point, but I do monitor the gauges while cruising and if/when you are tuning your vehicle. I'm not sure if water temp is as important considering you have a temp gauge in your vehicle already. EGT's compliment the WB in my opinion.

I'm sure an aftermarket temp gauge is going to be more accurate, but really... how bad *is* the one already in the vehicle? and instead of a whole new gauge, could you get some sort of better sensor that sends to the stock gauge?
(I know that there's gobs that I don't fully understand, but I was just wondering ya know)

 

[stormy69]

for water temp, stock is fine you just need to know approx temps for needle position, easy to learn with an ir temp guage.

 

[4Lurker4]

I'd say boost, oil pressure and Wideband are the most important ones with temperatures later. But, if they ever made a rust-o-meter, I'd be all up on that