Why not just put it on the steering collumn? I've installed them in that spot on every tubo car I've ever had, and they look great and are in good line of sight there. Just mount it at an angle right above the windshild wiper control lever. Problem solved.

 

nice car.. i would gop for the a pillar mount

 

Nice! Any example pics?

 

dont know if this was mentioned, but possibly center column? steering column? next to rear view mirror?

 

Wrong.

I'm not going to tell anyone to "mount them on the inner a-pillar", but if you look at the structure of the inner pillar, where the airbag is mounted, and the direction that the airbag is supposed to inflate, you'll probably find that you're making mountains out of molehills.

 

I really like these two gauge pod found on the STi. The single gauge pod is my favorite and would be a great boost gauge pod. I hope a vendor out there will make these gauge pod HINT HINT. I would definetly buy the single gauge pod if some one made one. They are very clean looking.

 

It's great you feel that way, but probably doesn't cut it when your backseat passenger is your two year old daughter. Its a risk I'm not willing to take.

My boost gauge will be offset to the right on top of my steering column so as not to obstruct the view of the trip/fuel/ayc display.

 

Without going over the top with physics the force vectors in a crash are going forward not backwards. side impact will be toward the collison , all the vectors are going away from the driver and passenger except in rearend collision. just to keep everyone thinking about the safety issue isnt not a bad location is just not the best location. If some is willing to donate their EVO X i will be happy to video the crashes and setup the gauge placement.

 

Another solution is to wait for the MR to get released. Then purchase the dash top and factory boost gauge that it will come stock with. Part numbers are out but not active in the USA yet.

 

something like this would be clean and useful

whether 1 off center or centered, or 2

 

heres some pics where i put my boost gauge im taking it to a body shop to get painted octane blue in a few weeks but it well have to do for now sorry i dont take pics when i was making it but my girl had my camera, i used a sheet of plastic and a metra kit and some body filler

 

I rolled my IX MR and the A-pillar disloged and lacerated my face - it's not a good place to put gauges, especially if side airbags are involved. You can speculate all you want, but you never know what's going to happen.

Besides, you're only increasing the A-pillar blind spot putting anything in that location.

 

I hate to be argumentative but you just speculated, I dont think anyone will say " put it on the Apillar it will never hurt you, obviously in a major crash I think the gauge is the least of your worries as you have mentioned here. What about a Tbone on the driver side will the door take the impact. Right now the front windshield will not keep a deer from flying into you car and almost killing you. I have seen that. I think the worry is even with a small fender bender that activates your airbag, would this turn a simple fender bender into moderate injury when otherwise there wouldnt be one. it is totally speculation. People have been putting the gauges on A pillars for many years and I havent see/hear of any data that suggest its unsafe. the new question arises when you now have an airbag near the same location. I am not advocating either way. But I dont think to say the APillar is a bad location because it will cause additional injury is more speculative than fact. , maybe WE should look at the Apillar design and airbag deployment before you place you gauges in the usuall place, I have 2 of them on my EVO VIII and it was perfect , both were eye level which means you dont lose focus on the road to glance over and read as well as not obstructing any of you other instruments. good topic for discussion, I would love to see a nice dash mount setup with good attachment.

 

socalevox, thats exactly how I wanted to do mine. It looks fantastic. Was it very difficult to do?

 

What about people with Navi?!