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Old 07-14-2010, 06:39 PM
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Ok, well I have them all wired up to power and ground. Anyone know which wire on the O2 sensor is the signal wire?
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Old 07-14-2010, 06:58 PM
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Or, where do I hook up the air/fuel gauge. I'm finding stuff that says you can't splice into the wires at the sensor, but you have to splice into the wires that go into the PCM.
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Old 07-14-2010, 07:48 PM
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I spilced into the wire on my 02 for the narrow band and it worked.
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Old 07-15-2010, 06:51 PM
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With the oil pressure gauge, be sure to get an electrical one, not a mechanical one. You don't want hot oil lines in the passenger compartment; just in case a fitting comes loose.
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Old 07-15-2010, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by v braaten
With the oil pressure gauge, be sure to get an electrical one, not a mechanical one. You don't want hot oil lines in the passenger compartment; just in case a fitting comes loose.
wth? do they even make those? lol
he said he was gettin pretty much everythin from glowshift so with the sandwich adapter i would assume that it would only be electrical?
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Old 07-15-2010, 08:30 PM
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Ya i have the glowshift oil pressure and temp on my car too with the sandwich and iv had them on for about a year and a half and they still work great and look awesome! Just an fyi when the car is really cold like in the winter the temp will flash until the engine gets up in temp so dont think the gauge is broken like i did at first haha
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Old 07-16-2010, 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Metalmania82
Or, where do I hook up the air/fuel gauge. I'm finding stuff that says you can't splice into the wires at the sensor, but you have to splice into the wires that go into the PCM.
Here is the wiring layout for your O2 sensors.

Looks like the driver's side is violet/light green
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Old 07-16-2010, 08:08 PM
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Well, I got them all installed Wednesday. Did a trial run after hooking everything up, and leaked a bunch of oil out onto the floor. I had to go back and just retighten everything, I put some RTV sealant on the bolts that are used to just plug the empty slots. Also, after much research AND a good guess, I just hooked up the A/F gauge to the PCM. Not too difficult, definitely likin the setup, especially for the price. I got the pillar/pods, sandwich adapter, and 3 gauges for $170 shipped. I got electrical for all 3. The sandwich adapter is amazing, what a great invention!

I'll put some pictures up this weekend.
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Old 07-16-2010, 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by blackgtstang
Ya i have the glowshift oil pressure and temp on my car too with the sandwich and iv had them on for about a year and a half and they still work great and look awesome! Just an fyi when the car is really cold like in the winter the temp will flash until the engine gets up in temp so dont think the gauge is broken like i did at first haha
Which model gauge do you have? I didn't know they had a flash feature. Is it in case the temp drops/rises dramatically?

Speaking of which, what's the optimal temperature/pressure reading? Anyone know?
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Old 07-16-2010, 08:32 PM
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Use teflon tape to seal it up, had to do that with all the damn adapters for my turbo oil feed line. no idea what the pressure should be, but as long as your gettin pressure at all i'd consider it good(like above 10psi), but then again, i know more about jet engine oil pressure than i do car oil pressure lol
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