A-Pillar guage pods

[sean_goodman]

simple question really, does anybody supply A-pillar guage pods for the m12? the sort of thing which replaces the factory trim with an item which takes two 50mm guages?

i dont mean a tacky halfords universal thing though, when i had my evos replacement trims were available that looked really good.

would like to add oil temp and pressure to mine when i get it as i believe these are the most important two things to keep an eye on

i assume sandwhich plates are acceptable? oh who is best to supply them also?

cheers
sean

[peterguk]

If you hang on a week or two i may have just what you are looking for. Mainly becasue aftermarket steering wheels block vision of the two small gauges.

I'm in the process of fabricating a housing to hold two 50mm gauges and a row of shift lights.

OEM looking, no wiring, no drilling etc required.

Pictures soon.

[Adrian W]

peterguk said:

If you hang on a week or two i may have just what you are looking for. Mainly becasue aftermarket steering wheels block vision of the two small gauges.

I'm in the process of fabricating a housing to hold two 50mm gauges and a row of shift lights.

OEM looking, no wiring, no drilling etc required.

Pictures soon.

No wiring for shift lights.....................neat trick!

[peterguk]

Adrian W said:

peterguk said:

If you hang on a week or two i may have just what you are looking for. Mainly becasue aftermarket steering wheels block vision of the two small gauges.

I'm in the process of fabricating a housing to hold two 50mm gauges and a row of shift lights.

OEM looking, no wiring, no drilling etc required.

Pictures soon.

No wiring for shift lights.....................neat trick!

Hey! What i mean is i've found a way of having all wiring hidden away.. With no mods to dash required.

[AMG Merc]

peterguk said:

Hey! What i mean is i've found a way of having all wiring hidden away.. With no mods to dash required.

Wireless?

[sean_goodman]

peterguk said:

If you hang on a week or two i may have just what you are looking for. Mainly becasue aftermarket steering wheels block vision of the two small gauges.

I'm in the process of fabricating a housing to hold two 50mm gauges and a row of shift lights.

OEM looking, no wiring, no drilling etc required.

Pictures soon.

interesting, no hurry i wont be picking my car up for a few weeks yet.
would be interested in the housing though, is it for the A Pillar?

[obes]

I added some engine monitoring digitally...

Used the defi system (I was a bit paranoid after I blew the engine up) !
.....well, that and I'm a sucker for a gadget!

It monitors; water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure, egt, boost, rpm & boost. It does a limited amount of data logging but the good thing is you set a warning level for each thing and it flashes and beeps if you get to it.

[Adrian W]

Owen, wont that be redundent when you fit the 710?

[obes]

no mate, mine is a 700.
The issue is still diplaying the info though.
The glass cockpit features on the omex are awesome but fitting a display would be tricky. This is an out of the box job. Display, conrotl box, looms & sensors. Easy to retrofit.

[sean_goodman]

yeah, i might go this way, what ever i do it will be defi, so the the link controller would be required whatever i went for, ie display or two guages and the cost is about the same.

ie two guages is about same as display with two sensors

[chippie]

Hey Sean,

The factory supplied a combined oil temperature and pressure gauge as an option, as fitted to my old car. It was located lower down on the centre console near the gear stick:




Quite neat and compact. No offence but aren't A-pillar gauges a bit Max Power?

[V6GTO]

chippie said:

No offence but aren't A-pillar gauges a bit Max Power?

Not really...they serve a purpose and were used in racing long before they could be bought by Wayne in Halfords. It's like saying low profile tyres are a bit Max Power.
I want an oil temp/pressure gauge (the factory didn't fit one from new, despite it being on the spec sheet ) but I'm not going to have oil feeds routed to the dash retrospectively (time/money/cock-up potential).
Who's got a photo of Nathans dash/dials?

Martin.

[obes]

V6GTO said:

chippie said:

No offence but aren't A-pillar gauges a bit Max Power?

Not really...they serve a purpose and were used in racing long before they could be bought by Wayne in Halfords. It's like saying low profile tyres are a bit Max Power.
I want an oil temp/pressure gauge (the factory didn't fit one from new, despite it being on the spec sheet ) but I'm not going to have oil feeds routed to the dash retrospectively (time/money/cock-up potential).
Who's got a photo of Nathans dash/dials?

Martin.

You don't need oil feeds through mate.
I used the second plug in the sump for the temp and the exising low pressure sensor for the pressure. Both just cables up the tunnel

Nathan used spa ones

[sean_goodman]

electronic guages are much easier, just need a sandwich plate for the sensors and a bit of wiring. had defi guages before and found them really good.

will probably go for the link display as i reckon A Pillar pods that look OEM are not too redily available for the noble.

also by goinf the defi route, one can allways add sensors to give more readouts, exhaust gas temp is allso quite a good thing to keep an eye on

[ajg31]

Think the M400's had the gauges basically sdide by side, as i think its hard to see the oil gauge right down in that corner. O/T but why do the earlier cars only have one switch on the dash while later two. Dumb question alert!

[alex s]

ajg31 said:

Think the M400's had the gauges basically sdide by side, as i think its hard to see the oil gauge right down in that corner. O/T but why do the earlier cars only have one switch on the dash while later two. Dumb question alert!

The second switch was originally going to be for two boost settings IIRC, that idea was binned, but the switch wasn't.