Blkdth87

curious on how you people set up your coolant temp and oil pressure guages.

dingle

I did all after market (autometer) gauges. Temp I used an adapter and plugged the sender directly into the block on the rear passenger side. Oil pressure sender came with the oil pressure gauge and plugged right into the oil pan.





I orginally had them both hooked up to the stock gauges and they seemed to work fine. The temp was accurate, but the oil pressure was kinda off but it still functioned enough for general use.

Blkdth87

what adapter did you use? did u use the original coolant temp sensor, or a different type? i really would like to use my stock gauges. and i definetly don't want to drive my car on the street without being able to view coolant temp, especially since ive still yet to drive the car far with the new swap in. i've been using my scanner to view data until i can get my guages to work.

dingle

You might get the stock sender to fit but I don't know what adapters you will need and how easily it will fit back there.

I used this...

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...?part=ATM-2259

with this

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...0&autoview=sku

It was accurate on my stock '83 gauge.

cam-

I used an autometer mechanical and drilled out the small fitting just above the oil filter. Its already the correct size hole for 1/8 NPT so its uber easy.

I didnt want to run my factory tach with an adaptor. Figured the calibration would never be right on the stock 20 year old tach and with the kind of RPM i'm running I dont want errors leading to *KABOOM*. So I bought the pimped out Ultra Light Pro comp with shift light and seeing as my oil gauge is inside my factory tach I bought the matching mech autometer one for 35 bucks new. The electric one is waaay over a hundred bucks ( at least the ultra light pro comp is ) and I dont really like electric oil pressure gauges.

I had a bunch of aeroquip braided SS 1/8 line so no worries of the crappy nylon tube melting or bursting. i would never run that nylon junk its not safe. Mounted it with my shift light right under the dash beside the tach in the little pocket there between the ac duct and the tach. Looks sweet if I do say so myself.

Heres a link with a pic on the bottm of the fitting i drilled out

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showpo...49&postcount=5

85RS

I know this is an old thread but I noticed you reused the stock bezel, did you use 1¹/²" and 4 ³/⁸ gauges and if so did you have trouble with fitment (touching each other, not fitting behind the cluster, etc.)? Tia, nice install.