So I bought an a-pillar gauge pod which holds 3 gauges. I am looking for advice on what gauges to put in there. Here's what I'm thinking so far:

Air/Fuel Gauge
Vacuum Line Pressure Gauge
EGT Gauge

I don't plan on going turbo anytime soon .. its maybe 2 years down the line in my planning as I need to save lots and have a new mortage! :P I'm keeping my car naturally aspirated. What gauges do you recommend?

Here are other gauges I've seen:

Oil Pressure
Water Temp
Intake Air Temp
Fuel Pressure
Ammeter gauge
Tachometer
Voltmeter

If you were to buy 3 gauges, solely planning on staying NA, what 3 would you get?

 

if you're sticking to bolt-ons, i would scrap the idea altogether. you won't NEED any gauges.

but if you want to make fancy, get the A/F gauge, EGT, and fuel pressure. why fuel pressure? because at idle you should be at 38psi. if it's higher, you have a vacuum leak and if it's lower, you might have a fuel system leak. but then again, that's just me...

 

I always felt that an oil pressure guage is a good idea if you're doing performance driving, but as said above you don't NEED any of them. Air/fuel guages look really cool when driving, so if you're going for looks (and since you bought the pillar first then asked about guages, I'm guessing that's what you want) I would put that one on for sure, and maybe whatever else you think looks real trick.

 

i appreciate the ideas guys!

my idea about the gauges is more functionality than something that looks good. While I'd love to get a kit and enter in shows, thats not really realistic for my within the near future .. so i really wanted something which would allow me to see whats going on under the hood.


ya never know .. irs could screw up on my tax refund and one of these gauges could become a boost gauge .. ya never know. thanks guys.

 

On any N/A car. I would suggest:

Oil Pressure
Fuel pressure
Air/Fuel

 

David's A/F guage looks really cool, lights up this bar from green to yellow to red every time he presses on the gas. I don't think he's getting a very good air/fuel ratio, but the guage that tells him so looks really cool

 

I will agree with most...really none are needed. If you were to get some go with the ones crazy lizard said. An EGT guage is completey useless to you you dont even have any fuel upgrades so exhaust temps arent really important and arent going to be changing drastically from stock. Too much work to install, you need to tap your header on a certain runner to install a probe. Also the A/F gauges well most, are really crap (I have one) useless just more of a tattle tale device at WOT. Anyways here it goes again...you have no fuel mods...not likely you are gonna be leaning her out or runing pig rich on the stock mapping. Just something that looks cool...a fancy 60 dollar light show.

 

ummm a/f is totally crap and useless, EGT is way better and acurate

oil temp and/or pressure
tranny temp
intake temp
water temp
fuel pressure

i am in the same boat as you...i have a triple pillar on the way as well

i will be using autometer phantom gauges

good luck

 

Yep you are right the EGT is a way better device than these A/F gauges (thats why I gave them a thumbs down in my last post)...wish i never would have purchased one, should had bought a modded one. On the same note I dont think for his set up that he really needs an EGT (not saying he cant get one tho). I dont think he is gonna be tunning by this (or maybe he is) by leaning the car out and backing it off right before detonation trying to find the "sweet spot" when the temps get too high. It seems to me he would do fine with a fuel or oil pressure gauge or others along this line.

 

do you have a system in your car? i can only think of 2 guages that would even be helpful, those being the oil pressure and a voltmeter.

 

If you want to monitor A/F best way to go is wideband. Wish I had wideband....

 

i have a pretty big system in the car.

thanks for the comments guys. it is appreciated.