Guage placement
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Burning Brakes
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Guage placement
I am going to a FI set up the "off season". I was wondering what are the options on gauge placement other than the POD on the A plier. Some of you guys are very creative and I am looking for alternatives. Also which gauges are the most useful in monitoring the the super charger?
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Rod
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Rod
Melting Slicks
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some people modify the center console to accept a gauge or two. However they replace the cup holder. I know that they make steering column gauge pods for mustangs maybe they make them for vetts.
Burning Brakes
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no they do not make them
I already tried asking but some vendor that is good with this stuff should step it up .. They would look sweet there.Ed
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St. Jude Donor '07-'12, '20
You have sir Beer99C5 above who makes pretty much anything you want. 
OR you can do the A-Pillar Upper left side of photo. Just above steering wheel. I have NO gauges in there YET.
OR you can do the A-Pillar Upper left side of photo. Just above steering wheel. I have NO gauges in there YET.
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Now your talking. I will contact Beer and see what he has done for the C6. I am from Maine but live in CT.
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Thanks guys...currently I only do C5 stuff, Have not had a C-6 to camp out in and measure...from some car shows I looked in some and the C-6 ashtray area is not flat like ours, so it will be more difficult.
Pro
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Placing the guages in the ashtray area is nice / sleek, but not at all functional for me. At the 800hp level, traction, even with drag radials is a real issue. You are going to want to monitoring under boost/acceleration. I have trouble reading the guages at that time, as my eyes are focused on the road ahead trying to keep the car in lane. The guages I would recomend for the pillar are a wideband A/F most important, boost pressure, I use a 15 PSI fuel gauge for this as it gives me 270 degree pointer indication, as opposed to a guage that reads vacuum for the bottom 1/3 and 30 PSI for the top 2/3, and if you like a lot of guages, fuel pressure guage. The fuel pressure is not so important because of A/F guage.