I was driving around tonight, and it came to mind to check and see just how accurate my Defi BF gauge is.

I'm running 21lbs, but what should the gauge read in bar? What tick mark marks out 21lbs?

I peaks at the first tick mark after 1.5 bar...is that overboosting? The car runs like a champ, and I don't hear what I would think is valve ticking or anything. Just pulls and pulls

Anyone know of a link that does bar- lbs conversion?

Thanks!

 

1bar -> 14.7 psi...

enjoy

 

1 bar actually = 14.5psi.

not 14.7psi

 

Yikes....gotta turn the sucker down. I was hitting 2 ticks past the 1.5 bar mark last night, which in my math caclulation = around 25psi!

Thanks guys!

 

You are correct sir.

 

yes, i was going by atmospheric pressure...it is indeed 14.5...

good luck, and nice gauges

 

Stephen, I'm confused why you'd say you are running 21psi when you don't know how to read your boost gauge. What was the point of your gauge this whole time if you didn't know what it was saying?

 

S2kstephen,
I didnt see alky listed in your sig.. so my question is : How are you going to run 24psi safely on the (im assuming) stock turbo? What octane gas are you using?

 

It says he has a mail in flash... maybe that's how?

 

I fail to see the correlation between this comment and the one to which you responded. Having a mail-in flash doesn't make him able to run 24psi on the stock turbo safely. I know he had alky in the plans, but I don't see the kit listed for some reason.

 

Here is a great tool

http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

 

Oh ok.. maybe he just forgot to list it.

 

Scott, thats exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!

Yea, I've corrected my sig. At the time I was planning on running Alky at 24psi, but have yet to do the Alky tuning. I'll change my sig to 21psi.

Warr: I had a digital boost gauge at first, now that I have a Defi, I just needed to convert the PSI into bar.

 

Defi now makes those gauges in imperial units...if you are confused, I would sell the one you have now and pick up a BF in psi!

 

I just might do that...thanks AutoEuphoria!