Legion5

I'd be rather unhappy if it blew, and don't plan on installing guages. Does anyone make something like this?

fazm

what does installin gauges have to do with anything?

are u planning on spending thousands on f/i and skimp a few hundred bucks on almost necessary gauges?

Legion5

Gauges when going FI unless i'm overlooking something are designed to identify the type of malfunction happening to an engine quickly enough to stop the engine (why this can't be writen into the computer is beyone me). They are designed to decrease the likleyhood of severly damaging the engine if something is overstressed and the resulting malfunction goes unoticed.

That's one approach to making a major malfunction no cause an equaly major issue when running FI. I figure that instead it should be possible to build the engine up to decreased the likleyhood of faliure (stronger fuel pump from the get go, all work done professionally etc), instead of to do damage control.

Gauges add an optional layre of safety and are not nessesary. In the build up of my car I don't see them fitting into the setup I will be running because I want to be a sleeper with very little on my car to indicate it's ****ing fast..

However I still wouldn't mind an optional layre of safety allong the same lines as all of this. (come to think of it, why hasn't anyone designed in an FI "limp mode"?)

by the way some of the reason for deciding not to do guages in my car is because none of the pod designs are appealing enough.

Like I said I want the added assurance, even if it might cost more than other methods of doing it. If anyone has more ideas on how to bullet proof the engine I'm all ears too.

fazm

if you dont have a boost gauge, how do u know if ur not overboosting. if you odnt have an a/f gauge, how do u know if u didnt pop a vacuum line off and ur running crazy lean?

if u dont want to use gauges, thats your choice.

i just dont get it. replacing the head gasket will cost you 3x what doing gauges would.


and im pretty sure not one person has blown a head gasket because of f/i. all failures so far have been pistons or rods.

Bandit111

You could use the sos radio panel guage holders and still be pretty sleepered without a close look.

Torch_Vert

Have to agree with Fazm. The thinking here is just weird to me. Sure gauges probably won't help if something goes suddenly and catastrophically wrong during a full throttle run, but they sure as heck help monitor things so you know the engine is running within normal parameters before you really start wailing on it, Given what an engine and F/I system cost, it's VERY cheap insurance...

There are many ways to mount gauges, some quite stealthy, I sure wouldn't think that would be an insurmountable problem.

fazm

sos radio panel ftw
and their apillar

i got both

rygenstormlocke

I wouldn't worry about our stock headgaskets, I never blew mine. I did have my studded.