Help me pick my rice, I mean gauges
02-18-2012, 10:52 AM
#21
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https://www.miataforumz.com/showthre...=7075#post7075
On the 5th page you can see my mylar'd leds.
02-18-2012, 02:49 PM
#22
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Ok, let me cover a couple of these. Being one of probably 5 miata enthusiasts with both a functioning OPG and water temp gauge, I can probably help you get where you want with only one gauge pod spot.
I have 2 suggestions if you want to stick with the stock gauges route (possibly a third, but it may not be the cleanest).
1)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-Linear stock OPG with a new sender and a dampening fluid clean.
-use your 3rd gauge spot for Oil Temp.
2)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-get a second stock temp gauge, linearize it and put it in the location of the OPG gauge, then wire it up to a temp. sender in the oil. You can do whatever you want to change the logo for this Oil temp gauge.
- Use an OPG in your 3rd gauge spot.
3)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-following Alex (YelloYata), you can put one of those multi gauges in place of the stock OPG and display either OPG or Oil temp.
-use the 3rd pod for OPG/Oil temp that you didn't pick in multi gauge option.
I have 2 suggestions if you want to stick with the stock gauges route (possibly a third, but it may not be the cleanest).
1)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-Linear stock OPG with a new sender and a dampening fluid clean.
-use your 3rd gauge spot for Oil Temp.
2)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-get a second stock temp gauge, linearize it and put it in the location of the OPG gauge, then wire it up to a temp. sender in the oil. You can do whatever you want to change the logo for this Oil temp gauge.
- Use an OPG in your 3rd gauge spot.
3)
-Linear stock temp gauge.
-following Alex (YelloYata), you can put one of those multi gauges in place of the stock OPG and display either OPG or Oil temp.
-use the 3rd pod for OPG/Oil temp that you didn't pick in multi gauge option.
02-18-2012, 04:36 PM
#23
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That one is a PLX DM-100OBD meaning it comes with an OBD connection like a Scangauge. It does way more than I can finger type on this ipad but google them and you'll be blown away at all they can do. Just to clarify something, you can display oil temp, oil pressure AND two other sensor data on the same screen at the same time, not just one or the other.
You can also replace the other two stock gauges with PLX for a crazy set of twelve parameters at once or just one per gauge face. You can switch the gauge view from numbers to analog sweeping arm, graph over time and so on, upload wallpapers, custom display, change text colors, visual alarms... too much to list.
I just chose OBD for this picture but with the remote, I can change it to O2 or oil temp or boost or all of those at once, whatever I want. Each PLX display can support up to 32 sensors via modular, daisy chaining. All for now....finger tired.
In case you're curious, thats a Shift I tach light in front showing battery voltage (12v) as its startup routine.
You can also replace the other two stock gauges with PLX for a crazy set of twelve parameters at once or just one per gauge face. You can switch the gauge view from numbers to analog sweeping arm, graph over time and so on, upload wallpapers, custom display, change text colors, visual alarms... too much to list.
I just chose OBD for this picture but with the remote, I can change it to O2 or oil temp or boost or all of those at once, whatever I want. Each PLX display can support up to 32 sensors via modular, daisy chaining. All for now....finger tired.
In case you're curious, thats a Shift I tach light in front showing battery voltage (12v) as its startup routine.
Last edited by YellowYata; 02-18-2012 at 04:38 PM.
02-18-2012, 05:26 PM
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Happy for the chance to show-n-tell. 
I WILL do the definitive writeup ince everything's done. Inst cluster is on the list. I have a radio console gauge panel coming in next week for my other two PLX gauges but I still don't know if I'm going to install them there or in the cluster. Really, because each gauge shows so much info, I don't really need all three. I might just use two in the console and a simple gauge back in the cluster. Just don't know.
I WILL do the definitive writeup ince everything's done. Inst cluster is on the list. I have a radio console gauge panel coming in next week for my other two PLX gauges but I still don't know if I'm going to install them there or in the cluster. Really, because each gauge shows so much info, I don't really need all three. I might just use two in the console and a simple gauge back in the cluster. Just don't know.
02-18-2012, 05:38 PM
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Oh, that's an Isotta lap timer. The button on the left is the stopwatch and the one one the right is the car's horn. It came highly polished but I painted it black, drilled an indentation in the horn button and painted it red. The wheel is a Nardi Gara Sport I redrilled for Mazda (Momo) pattern and it came with a polished ring and horn button. The Isotta device slips in perfectly where the Nardi horn button assembly used to be. That was blind luck.
03-05-2012, 04:51 PM
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Just to make it worse...
If ya gots loads o' cash to blow... The 'old-skool' way.
http://www.westach.com/
http://www.westach.com/catalog/index...e=PAGE22s.html
In n' out intercooler temp...
http://www.westach.com/catalog/index...e=PAGE12s.html
They have all manner of dual, three-in-one and quad guages .
If ya gots loads o' cash to blow... The 'old-skool' way.
http://www.westach.com/
http://www.westach.com/catalog/index...e=PAGE22s.html
In n' out intercooler temp...
http://www.westach.com/catalog/index...e=PAGE12s.html
They have all manner of dual, three-in-one and quad guages .
Last edited by RattleTrap; 03-05-2012 at 05:11 PM. Reason: Add link.
03-05-2012, 08:28 PM
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Moar gauges...
http://www.speedhut.com/custom_gauge...number-941.htm
Originally designed for motorcycles... But, with some ingenuity...
Originally designed for motorcycles... But, with some ingenuity...
