Austarion

Has anyone fitted an autometer boost guage into the factory boost guage position. I know hoon girl has one like this but has any one done this themselves? Is it easy? It just seems the accurate legal way to go.

Many people have done it, and many of the sydney based starions.
I would like to do it too and yes most of them did it themselves.
Apparently it is easy although I didn't want to do it until i am sure.

Cheers
Ben

I just did mine , it's pretty easy , it just involves a bit of cutting & re-wiring the FPC sheet on the back of the dash , and drilling some holes for the vac line & mounting bolts. Make sure you have a decent soldering iron , cause an underpowered one could end up melting the FPC.

You will need to cut through the rear of the dash to fit the gauge in the factory position. This involves cutting through a part of the plastic circuit board on the back of the dash. Any circuit tracks you cut through will need to be bridged. Easy enough to do.

52mm (2 1/16") guages fit in the factory position. Very easy mod... gets rid of the inaccurate factory gauge.

I managed to fit mine without cutting into the circut thingy at the back. I did get bits of white plastic everywhere though.

Cookiemonster wrote:gets rid of the inaccurate factory gauge.

i must say, my factory gauge reads exactly the same as my autometer... suprisingly

oh decoy my older padawin...the way of the force, need research you must.
The factory guage does its job but at higher levels not so accurate. Anyway an autometer has laike single psi incriments the factory guage is a bit of guess work unless you are at 0, .5 or 1 bar

I want it as mine was disconnected and the transducer box was removed by the previous ownres radek and bro. And not to mention the pillar guage is only a speco and illegal

indeed.. mine is off now for inspection :'( just took the cup and gauge off and left the mount and blocked off hose there, so i figure its not illegal to have the setup for a gauge... although it IS illegal to have the setup for a turbo timer :S go figure :S

decoy wrote:. although it IS illegal to have the setup for a turbo timer :S go figure :S

what? is it illegal for you guys to have turbo timers over there?

could it be that someone could jump in your car while it's cooling down and drive off??? though i don't think they would get far. :x Then again i have no idea. Just a thought, there are some silly rules out there, for safety either ours or theirs.
:roll:

mmm, if you try and drive off in a car thats idleing down, you gonna have prob's when the steering lock decides to play.....


i can understand a ban on remote engine starters tho....
some pregnant chick got bowled by a nong's pajero over here a while back... he was still walkn out of the supermarket and decided to crank the mighty wanker up... might have helped if he had taken it out of gear tho....

I like having a turbo timer. I have a bar on the steering wheel to deter theiving low lives, but being a simple man I often forget to unlock the bar before starting the car. So I can pull the key out of the ignition and unlock the bar with the car still idling, and put it back in like nothing happened. That way I don't have to turn it off and start it again. Yay.

:o in regards to the wanker ( and the car ), i thought if an engine start was fitted there had to be a Neutral Lock out. Other wise the car would'nt start. I have had a few cars through work that are fitted out this way. Most of them were manuals. Would'nt start in gear. I tried it, mind you i was in the car don't people think???

MelbStazz wrote:: don't people think???

not pajero owners.....

i think he had it fitted professionally too.... dumbasses, i actually like the idea of remote starting, but yeah, you would want it installed properly.


Oh, and he got done for dangerous driving causing injury

We cant have a turbo timer because the car is running un-attended.
Some TWAT in the eastern states sent his wreck pics into fast fours about his stupidity. He was driving a lancer gsr evo3 shape I think and knocked his key out of the ON position from playing with all the bells and whistles of his new car. He was travelling at 80km/hr approached a corner and his steering locked up and wrecked a classic in a ditch!

Proffesional installation or not, A quality turbo timer should be used with a handbrake switch connected. If he had this his car would have stopped dead and probably saved my favourite style of turbo lancer.