Vacuum gauge instal

[treas92]

Best vacuum line to splice into for the 4G69 engine to get a good vacuum reading?

 

[Res]

y u need?

 

[tryg]

for a gauge... I am guessing :lol:

 

[Royzie]

One that goes direct from your intake manifold.

You will be surprised how handy a vacuum gauge can be. No power gains but acceleration improvements will be noted

 

[tryg]

One that goes direct from your intake manifold.

You will be surprised how handy a vacuum gauge can be. No power gains but acceleration improvements will be noted

A GPS can do this for you too!

So can a 1/4 mile strip!

 

[treas92]

Thanks for the help guys. I'll let you's know how the instal goes

 

[Royzie]

I was just *poo* stirring... Your better off pissing into a cup and blue tacking it to the dash to get more relevant information than a vac gauge will give you

 

[tryg]

Funny Roy... Never saw your sarcasm coming...

Agree, these types of meters were popular in the late 70's, on the first Commodore (VB), somewhat irrelevant these days = with the invention of fuel injection!

 

[Skippy]

I saw this in passing:
http://forums.mustangworks.com/f8/benef ... auge-4177/

Sounds like they have some use, if you know what you're looking at.

I don't know if the 4g69 has it, but could you use the breather tube point of connection with the intake?

 

[tryg]

Oh dude... That's lame... A car with OBD can diagnose all that without a gauge...

 

[Skippy]

Yeah that's dated 2001, "back in the day" you could say :lol: It'd only be useful on cars that couldn't take OBD's?

 

[tryg]

Mostly for carburettor fitted cars mate... So yes, old.

Problem is, n00bs read those things and think they're onto THE NEXT BIG THING.. All been done before, we were doing it in the 80's and I prefer the electronic way , today...

My 2c

 

[Skippy]

Electronic is better anyway, 10 gauges in one, hellz yes. I'll only be rocking two gauges, a stand-alone boost and a plx for everything else. I see no point in having gauges like a vacuum, when all of it can be diagnosed via computer plug in.

 

[tryg]

For those of us with no boost... We add things like sideband O 2
With PLX style gauge you need not have two... You can scroll through all the screens...

 

[Royzie]

water temp / boost / oil temp / af mixutre or egt is all i think you need

 

[MOR31]

water temp / boost / oil temp / af mixutre

 

[tryg]

I don't have EGT, but its as easy as adding that one module.. then scrolling through to that screen..

 

[Royzie]

Yeah EGT is good if your too broke to buy a wideband afm

The nissan has EGT lol

 

[tryg]

I doubt I will need one, being that it will always be NA... great for turbo applications...

 

[Royzie]

Yeah i just read that post as i didnt have the time yesterday... Its just a secondary way of finding out information that is 10 times easier to work out another way.


But if your someone like Aaron that is narrow headed than sure, that link should be book marked. So when we laugh at him for having a vac gauge he can forever link that pointless thread. lol