Us younger peeps come from an age where they learned how to build engines that last :D .

A good CVH will do 170K easily on the same bottom end. Twincs will go to 200+ easily ( need a head gasket or two ;) )


Concentrate on the IVA stuff and play afterwards ;)

TT

I will have an oil guage on my turbo sierra, but that realy does matter as with all the oil feeds to the turbos and the potential to write off 1K of Turbo's it's worth the investement... And it looks cool, and does not have to pass the IVA :D .

TT

I'm with you guys... I will someday fit a row of individual round instruments for the classic look, but for starters I picked up a Sierra cluster with a tach for £5, as my donor had one without.

a good idea with the big red light is to have it wired to a higher pressure switching switch.
the normal ones switch at a very low pressure meaning by the time the lights in youve got real trouble
what you need is an early warning of low pressure not a light that says your engines dead
Ray:)

VW did this..

A low preasure...

and a

You stupid £$%£$^£^ Idot Buzzer :D

TT

To answer the original question, Ford block fittings are 1/4 NPT for the oil pressure switch. You'll need a 2 way adapter to take the 1/8 NPT that virtually all senders use. Something like this

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIERRA-ESCORT-COSWORTH-TURBO-OIL-PRESSURE-GAUGE-ADAPTOR_W0QQitemZ400102311676

I'm planning to get a cheap electronic unit for first startup and testing to ensure that all is healthy. Afer that I will hopefully get around to wiring the sensor into maybe the megajolt or some some data acquisition kit.

cheers Deezee :cool:

yes, i,d looked into those adapters & now feel happier to order the gauge/s , :o decided to spend a little bit more & have a oil pressure & oil temp gauge alongside the sierra binnicle, then later in the year i,ll be having all individual gauges .

cheers for all the advice/info guys.

cheers
andy

I got mine from here

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260546911585#ht_720wt_ 939

Every penny counts!

Cheers

Rich

HA, if you plan to replace the gauges with 'Proper ones':D when the engine goes 'Pop' then why bother with any gauges now other than what comes with the stock binacle? If you can't see the failing oil pressure and resulting excessive oil temp:D :D then you'll be fitting the 'proper ones' soon enough;)
BV.