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rare_ram
06-18-2007, 08:45 PM
Just mounted a Shadow Boost Gauge in my A/C vent.

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/12/web/732000-732999/732054_211_full.jpg
Tony Hanna
06-18-2007, 08:47 PM
Nice! looks like it belongs there.
raccoon
06-18-2007, 09:59 PM
is that in an L body?
rare_ram
06-18-2007, 10:18 PM
Rampage.
RJ138
06-18-2007, 10:42 PM
Nice! looks like it belongs there.

Ditto! Looks good, almost like ma Mopar put it in herself.:thumb:
rare_ram
06-18-2007, 11:11 PM
Ditto! Looks good, almost like ma Mopar put it in herself.:thumb:

That was my plan.:partywoot:
88_pacifica
06-19-2007, 08:15 AM
That looks sweet... I really like it, but I was under the impression our factory gauges suck. Can they be made more "precise" to keep the original look? I would love to be able to do that...
rare_ram
06-19-2007, 08:33 AM
I tested it with a vacumn pump, was dead on at 10 psi, but it did start to go off after that. Since I won't have more than 15 lbs of boost it's close enough.
88_pacifica
06-19-2007, 08:34 AM
sweet... I'm going ot prob do that soon too then. I wonder if these things can be made more precise...
shelbydodgeimp
06-26-2007, 03:30 PM
sweet... I'm going ot prob do that soon too then. I wonder if these things can be made more precise...

How much money do you have to burn? Any place that does analog/sweep style instrumentations (not just for automotive applications) may be able to make you a gauge that reuses the stock gauge face... the tach I have in my Saab was built by GE as a one-off using the Syracuse plant's instrumentation department when one of the guys had some time free (this was some decades ago now). Its as accurate as the gauges on a nuclear power plant... not that its application calls for that.

If you can find a off the shelf gauge that does the same span you maybe able to put it behind a stock face... the sweep function must occur at the same pace, with readings at the same locations or you'd have to repaint the stock face to "match"
Tony Hanna
06-26-2007, 04:15 PM
What would be really slick would be to build a stock appearing face that's that's incremented to 30 psi and matched up to the internals out of an aftermarket 30 psi gauge.
I toyed with the idea a few years ago, but couldn't figure out how to go about making a face that would light up like the stocker.
Dodgeglht
07-17-2007, 03:50 PM
I had one in my first GLH & when I got the silver car I was gonna mount the gauge in the a/c vent, BUT since I plan on fixing the a/c I dunno if I'm gonna put the gauge in the car. It ws out of an older turbo Shadow & worked fine. I never noticed any inaccuracies with it at all, so I dunno.
rare_ram
07-17-2007, 10:00 PM
I'll have working AC, figured missing one vent won't be too bad.