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Offline cullygti

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #10 on: 27 April 2012, 17:52 »


 i drive a golf thats why im skint!!!!


losing interest in the golf and now not so skint !!!!!

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #11 on: 27 April 2012, 18:31 »
So nagged to get it down where the bonet cable goes, all fitted and sorted cheers all....

One more thing!!!!! Is it better to t off next to dv or off fpr??


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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #12 on: 27 April 2012, 18:50 »
I've just routed mine down the wing/door void and into the plastic grommet

thats the lazy way, so naturally its my preferred method :grin: plus you dont have any chance of water getting in where it shouldnt. also gives handy access if you're mounting it on the A post trim!

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #13 on: 27 April 2012, 19:05 »
yep it was spot on for my oil temp gauge :afro:


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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #14 on: 27 April 2012, 19:36 »
So nagged to get it down where the bonet cable goes, all fitted and sorted cheers all....

One more thing!!!!! Is it better to t off next to dv or off fpr??

I have done mine from where the N75 is

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #15 on: 27 April 2012, 21:32 »
So nagged to get it down where the bonet cable goes, all fitted and sorted cheers all....

One more thing!!!!! Is it better to t off next to dv or off fpr??

FPR :wink:

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #16 on: 28 April 2012, 11:10 »
So teed off where the dv is to keep it all tidy and smashed my hand up gettin it all down there....
Looks good yeah would look better black thou!! Peaks at 18 holds at 14 does this sound right??

Cheers for the help!!!!!


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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #17 on: 28 April 2012, 11:59 »
that sound about right mine peaks at around 18-20 and holds out on 15  :smiley:


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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #18 on: 28 April 2012, 12:02 »
Ya that's about right, mine is 0,5 higher on each !  :grin: I'm converting from bar to PSI though

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Re: People with boost gauges
« Reply #19 on: 28 April 2012, 12:39 »
sounds about right for stage 1


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