02-01-2005, 01:03 AM
Evan Wrote:gauges dont stop anything from blowing up. even if they have expensive warning lights you probably wont be looking at them.
and if you dont do stuff to the engine, you wont blow up regardless. (and have yet more money for seat time!)
I guess I just like driving the car more than working on it.
And making the driver better is actually more gratifying than making the car better.
anyway, back on topic, if you really plan on buying all those gauges, thats a ton of money, which could go into a more robust ECU monitoring and datalogging setup (like the AIM Mychron 3 XG Log) thats gives you all the realtime gauges, and also logging to help tune the car
You can still blow up a stock engine on a track. Some of those gauges can help prevent it. You don't have to stare at them, glancing at them once or twice a lap will work. Oil temp and water temp are pretty important IMO. Your oil temps not just going to jump up to 350 degrees all of a sudden. If your not racing your car though, these arnt nearly as important.
-Mike