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Old 05-23-2014, 12:08 PM
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OK so right now I have a Hennessey 650 HPE set up on my 2010 GS, I would like to add some gages. I have searched here but no luck.
So what gages? Boost, AFR, Fuel Pressure? I'm thinking Boost & AFR would be best. Any recommendations?
Also where can I get the A piller and gages?

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Originally Posted by BAMAGOLFER
OK so right now I have a Hennessey 650 HPE set up on my 2010 GS, I would like to add some gages. I have searched here but no luck.
So what gages? Boost, AFR, Fuel Pressure? I'm thinking Boost & AFR would be best. Any recommendations?
Also where can I get the A piller and gages?

Thanks
Kelly
On my GS I have an autometer dual pillar with a raptor shift light mini, phantom 2 fuel pressure and boost I think it matches the factory gauges perfect and is so clean lookin! If your looking for A/F I forget which company but I've seen a A/F & boost gauge in one so I'd ****** that up and a fuel pressure gauge and you should be set!
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P/m if you have any questions - Eric
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Glow shift have gauges of all kinds
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It's AEM that makes the boost/wideband combo. It's programmable to set warnings and trigger a failsafe (if you can figure out how to on a blower car), which is cool, but you can really only read one thing (i.e. boost or AFR) on the gauge at a time. I had one on my '08, and the little perimeter LEDs are almost useless. It's configurable, so I put AFR or lambda on the center display and boost on the perimeter LEDs. If you want an accurate and easily readable boost gauge, then I wouldn't recommend the AEM failsafe gauge.

Now, this is just my personal opinion -- but I think all the off the shelf A-pillar pods are hideous. On my old car, I had Double D Mods make me a custom molded 2-gauge pod using a stock C6 pillar trim. Turned out very nice. I planned to have it and the passenger side wrapped in leather or alcantara, but I never did.

For my GS, I decided to use the DashLogic module to display boost and fuel pressure on my DIC/HUD. You can also use it to display AFR, meaning you can go totally gauge-free if you're after the clean look. I decided to mount an actual wideband gauge using SLP's pod:

http://marylandspeed.com/images/90540A-3.jpg

Looks better and is more low key than the pillar pods. I went with the PLX SM-AFR module and DM6 touch-gauge combo to mount in it.

Lots of options... hope that helps.
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My setup: DashLogic for boost/fuel, SLP pod with PLX wideband module/gauge...



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Dash logic FTW
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Just did dual pod with Innovate boost / AFR gauges...have no pics yet but soon...
Autometer pod is a little bulky - still works though ...

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Originally Posted by Streetk14
My setup: DashLogic for boost/fuel, SLP pod with PLX wideband module/gauge...



Been thinking myself of doing the dashlogic setup as well, I have the same setup as BAMA with a few extra goodies. The dashlogic is good, but then again, you can only look at one setting at a time correct? or can the boost be incorporated onto the stock settings on the digital display? i think that would be a better option if it can be done.
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I like having them on the A pillar because I don't have to take my eyes off the road much besides slightly to the left... Having them in the cluster or that low is kinda dangerous IMO but it does look killer... I like to monitor my fuel pressure to make sure it's steady and boost to make sure I'm not getting belt slip, and meth light and shift light is all on my pillar looks clean to me... I wouldn't want to be going a buck twenty and look down @ my cluster and look up and slam a deer
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Dash logic can do ~1-6 things at a time. Just depends on how busy and if you have a HUD or not. Can do 4 on the hud and 2 on the dic, and use the lock switch to cycle between 6 pages. So you could have 6 at a time, and 6 pages of data so 36 total items.

I just use my HUD, so no looking down. Can't get any better than displayed on the windshield.
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Dash logic can do ~1-6 things at a time. Just depends on how busy and if you have a HUD or not. Can do 4 on the hud and 2 on the dic, and use the lock switch to cycle between 6 pages. So you could have 6 at a time, and 6 pages of data so 36 total items.

I just use my HUD, so no looking down. Can't get any better than displayed on the windshield.
That sounds awesome! What wideband are you using? Is the NGK AFX the way to go or there are other viable (cheaper) options? Innovate? AEM?

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AEM but any wideband with 0-5V output works. I don't know of any without that.
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AEM but any wideband with 0-5V output works. I don't know of any without that.
I was just watching a video on youtube of the AEM 30-4900 and the failsafe idea would lean me towards it. Pretty cool if you ask me. It would really give some peace of mind knowing that it can help me save my engine if I dont react or notice a problem with fuel or boost right away.
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Dash logic does the same thing (well no output, but unless you are doing wastegates/etc that doesn't matter). It can do visual and audible alarm when parameters are where you don't want. Great thing is you can program anything you want. FP<58 and TPS>80, or AFR>11.5 while RPM>3k and TPS>80. Go crazy making up warnings.
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Originally Posted by Conv_GSDriver
Been thinking myself of doing the dashlogic setup as well, I have the same setup as BAMA with a few extra goodies. The dashlogic is good, but then again, you can only look at one setting at a time correct? or can the boost be incorporated onto the stock settings on the digital display? i think that would be a better option if it can be done.
Like Unreal said, if you have a heads up display, you can display a ton of data on it via the DashLogic. You can have probably 6 PIDs present at a time, which is more than enough. I just shot a pic of the boost reading in the DIC, but it could just as easily be in the HUD along with fuel pressure and AFR.

I need to play around with my settings a little to find out what I like best. I might set it up to show oil and coolant temps on the DIC display, with boost and fuel pressure on the HUD. I tried displaying my AFR reading with the Dashlogic before I mounted my gauge, but it sometimes didn't update as quick as I'd like. I decided I'd rather have a real gauge for that.

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Originally Posted by 1MEANGS
I like having them on the A pillar because I don't have to take my eyes off the road much besides slightly to the left... Having them in the cluster or that low is kinda dangerous IMO but it does look killer... I like to monitor my fuel pressure to make sure it's steady and boost to make sure I'm not getting belt slip, and meth light and shift light is all on my pillar looks clean to me... I wouldn't want to be going a buck twenty and look down @ my cluster and look up and slam a deer
Well I meant to say more if it can be incorporated onto the HUD displays, I wans't clear on that, but that's what I was trying to get across. The HUD on the windshield gives us I think it's 3 different settings, if the dashlogic can somehow tweak the HUD readout to show boost on there as well, i think that would be great.
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Originally Posted by Unreal
Dash logic can do ~1-6 things at a time. Just depends on how busy and if you have a HUD or not. Can do 4 on the hud and 2 on the dic, and use the lock switch to cycle between 6 pages. So you could have 6 at a time, and 6 pages of data so 36 total items.

I just use my HUD, so no looking down. Can't get any better than displayed on the windshield.
Nice, this is what I was trying to get at. So dashlogic is able to provide some of that info on your HUD display? That's great and with the right info on the HUD cluster, probably the way to go.
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Originally Posted by Streetk14
Like Unreal said, if you have a heads up display, you can display a ton of data on it via the DashLogic. You can have probably 6 PIDs present at a time, which is more than enough. I just shot a pic of the boost reading in the DIC, but it could just as easily be in the HUD along with fuel pressure and AFR.

I need to play around with my settings a little to find out what I like best. I might set it up to show oil and coolant temps on the DIC display, with boost and fuel pressure on the HUD. I tried displaying my AFR reading with the Dashlogic before I mounted my gauge, but it sometimes didn't update as quick as I'd like. I decided I'd rather have a real gauge for that.
This has been helpful, I think the dashlogic etup is the way to go for me. Can any of you PM me any info on the dashlogic or URLs? TIA.


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