How hot is hot?
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RE: How hot is hot?
I suppose if you really wanted to know what your factory temp gage was registering, you could go buy a new Temp sensor (5 bucks at Autozone) and test it using a pan of water on the stove, an DVM, and a kitchen thermometer. Hook up the temp sensor to the DVM to measure resistance. Then put into the water and slowly raise the water temp....recording the resistance values as it passed 160, 180, 190, 200, 210.....
Then install the temp sensor in your car and bring it up to operating temperature. Using the same DVM hooked to it, you could monitor the Ohms as they passed the predetermined...and you could note the location the sweep gage.
or, you could just go buy a $10 gauge from WalMart or JCWhitney and hook it up the supplied sender to another port in your intake and measure the temp to see the readout and then see what the dash gage says.
Then install the temp sensor in your car and bring it up to operating temperature. Using the same DVM hooked to it, you could monitor the Ohms as they passed the predetermined...and you could note the location the sweep gage.
or, you could just go buy a $10 gauge from WalMart or JCWhitney and hook it up the supplied sender to another port in your intake and measure the temp to see the readout and then see what the dash gage says.
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RE: How hot is hot?
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I suppose if you really wanted to know what your factory temp gage was registering, you could go buy a new Temp sensor (5 bucks at Autozone) and test it using a pan of water on the stove, an DVM, and a kitchen thermometer. Hook up the temp sensor to the DVM to measure resistance. Then put into the water and slowly raise the water temp....recording the resistance values as it passed 160, 180, 190, 200, 210.....
Then install the temp sensor in your car and bring it up to operating temperature. Using the same DVM hooked to it, you could monitor the Ohms as they passed the predetermined...and you could note the location the sweep gage.
or, you could just go buy a $10 gauge from WalMart or JCWhitney and hook it up the supplied sender to another port in your intake and measure the temp to see the readout and then see what the dash gage says.
I suppose if you really wanted to know what your factory temp gage was registering, you could go buy a new Temp sensor (5 bucks at Autozone) and test it using a pan of water on the stove, an DVM, and a kitchen thermometer. Hook up the temp sensor to the DVM to measure resistance. Then put into the water and slowly raise the water temp....recording the resistance values as it passed 160, 180, 190, 200, 210.....
Then install the temp sensor in your car and bring it up to operating temperature. Using the same DVM hooked to it, you could monitor the Ohms as they passed the predetermined...and you could note the location the sweep gage.
or, you could just go buy a $10 gauge from WalMart or JCWhitney and hook it up the supplied sender to another port in your intake and measure the temp to see the readout and then see what the dash gage says.
Well said,
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RE: How hot is hot?
I agree..mechanical gauges are more accurate, but I had messing around with that copper tube for the water and plastic tube for the oil. The electricals make for a cleaner looking install.
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well the mech oil i can understand but the mech temp is has no like just a copper plug that screws into the block by superior to the stock guage I am thinking of buying this to get all new guages in but i wanna use these guages equus i sell them at work and everyone seems to like them that buys them but would they fit in that adapter
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RE: How hot is hot?
That's exactly the same thing I did...bought the plastic rear mount frame and mounted autometers.
I bought a set of those Equus gages to install in the assembly... My opinion/experience with them was that they were cheap POS's.... I'm very happy I changed to Autometers.
I bought a set of those Equus gages to install in the assembly... My opinion/experience with them was that they were cheap POS's.... I'm very happy I changed to Autometers.
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