Boost gauge fitting?

[Rikki Kitto]

trying to find a thread on this can anyone help

[Rikki Kitto]

Anyone

[Rusty]

What are you after?

[Rikki Kitto]

A link on how to fit sure there was one on here can't find it

[Rusty]

Don't have a link but once you've found a position for it (centre vent is most common), just fit the T piece on the short hose that goes in to the ECU.

HTH

[andy10v]

If you are putting it in the centre vent then roughly;

Take out the left of the three grills, there is a small hole below the main flap in the bottom left hand corner, you can run your boost line in there, and it will come out in the passenger foot well.

T into the boost line to the ECU, located in the passenger foot well, clipped to the back of the blower duct behind the glovebox.

If its an electric gauge then connect to a switched 12v.

Hook up the lighting to a circuit that comes on with the lights, I wired into the aux gauges light circuit.

[Christophski]

I used the glovebox light for mine... Works perfectly

[Rikki Kitto]

Cheers guys seems simple enough, we'll see tomorrow when I try doing it

[John B]

I used the glovebox light for mine... Works perfectly

Me too....works well

[Rikki Kitto]

Cheers gonna have a crack at it today will post a few pics up later

[AUDIDAVES4]

I'm doing the same this wknd, I've just connected
The hose & started it up but the gauge drops
& sits at minus 10-15 then when u rev it'll go
To zero but no further any ideas folks?

Cheers

[veneto rs2]

I'm doing the same this wknd, I've just connected
The hose & started it up but the gauge drops
& sits at minus 10-15 then when u rev it'll go
To zero but no further any ideas folks?

Cheers

Did you rev the car while driving or just standing on your driveway/garage?
It's amost impossible to gain boost while standing.

[AUDIDAVES4]

It was just in the driveway, when the engine
Is at idle the gauge reads -10 should be 0.

[andy10v]

The gauge is showing vacuum at idle.

When the engine is idling, the throttle plate is shut, only a small hole for air to pass through, but the engine is still sucking air in, hence a vacuum in the intake manifold.

[Rikki Kitto]

OK peeps when the boost gauge is fitted in the centre grill what about the heater flap? mine is obstructed by the back of the boost gauge is this a sacrifice that has to be made