intruments advice please

[HandyAndy]

Thanks TT, you make some good points there , cheers

i,ve always wanted my Roadster to have a full array of individual gauges, so this will be the route i will take later in the year,
maybe its my age i like the full dash look, i,m not a fan of the modern all singing electronic dash single unit , used to have them on the bikes i used to race.

cheers for the input guys

thanks
andy

[twinturbo]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy

i,ve always wanted my Roadster to have a full array of individual gauges, so this will be the route i will take later in the year,

I know, it looks cool ... I have two boost guages to go on my twin turbo sierra , the fact that the boost is more or less balanced by a bypass port in the plenum is imaterial Two boosting needles looks cool .... But they did come in the car


TT

[AshG]

to be honest Andy I would say don't bother for now. keep it as simple as possible get it through iva then play with it.

[Bonzo]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy

i,ve always wanted my Roadster to have a full array of individual gauges, so this will be the route i will take later in the year,
maybe its my age i like the full dash look, i,m not a fan of the modern all singing electronic dash single unit , used to have them on the bikes i used to race.
andy

I'll be differen't ..... feeling rather naughty tonight

I guess some of the younger generation don't see the appeal of " That classic look " ...... Well unless it adds a few more BHP

On a more serious note ...... Surely an oil gauge will give an earlier indication of failing oil pressure than a pressure switch ever could !!??
By the time you have a steady flickering light ....... Mains will probably be FUBAR'ed allong with the crank journals

[twinturbo]

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

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

[twinturbo]

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 .

TT

[alga]

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.

[RAYLEE29]

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

[twinturbo]

VW did this..

A low preasure...

and a

You stupid £$%£$^£^ Idot Buzzer

TT

[deezee]

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