Guage install help.

[Bryce]

out there wrote:
air/fuel - why do you need a blinky light show?
oil pressue - good idea
water temp - stock isn't good enough?
volt meter - why?
not trying to tell you to avoid gauges completely... but there are some that just aren't necessary
He plans on putting a turbo in his civic, so the a/f might be worth it. Volt meter is just for looks.

[yose]

a/f is just a dancing light show. get a wideband and it would be worth it. i have an a/f gauge but i got it so cheap that i am gonna put it in for the heck of it.

[harwood39]

Mine were cheap

I paid $100 for my Oil preasure, a/f, and volt. water temp was $55. but i baught tuftes pod out of the hatch and am installing it in my civic so i need them to fill in the holes, plus they look better than nothing.

[harwood39]

Some people on honda-tech told me i can just splice into the existing harness for the water temp, and oil preasure sending units and dont have to replace the sensors.

[harwood39]

Ok, this is what i found out on ht.

Air/Fuel ---> Black wire: Any ground Red Wire: Thick red wire or thick black with yellow stripe on 3 prong conector for ignition Purple: Thick solid white wire on the middle conector of the ecu.

Oil Preasure ---> Tap into the existing harness and black and red are the same.

Water Temp ---> Tap into existing harness and black and red are the same

Volt ---> black wire: neg on battery, red to ignition.

[harwood39]

here is my wiring diagram i made.

[Jim]

dont start a fire...

[Guest]

do not wire it ghetto....mine was wired ghetto and everything was fucked up.........starts fires right jim!

[Joel]

LOL true dat. Make sure you dont cut corners and use the right gauge wire for the current you are putting through it.

[Jim]

I know about starting your dash on fire. Its not cool.

I ghetto wired all of my street glow, my neons and shit back in the day and as I drove to the twin citeis the shit started on fire, iw as like OMG and i pulled off, and had to un hook everything. Not a big fire, but there was smoke, and the speaker wire i twisted togther was shot.

Just a headsup harwood.

[Guest]

only you would do that jim!

[Joel]

mwc1 wrote:
only you would do that jim!
I am sure everyone has had there Twist and Tape Days of elecrical wiring.

[Guest]

i know i was just joking around.

[harwood39]

This is actually a very smart way to wire the guages. This will have them light up when i turn the ignition on, it will have them hooked in parallel power wise and requires less running of wires under the dash which equals less mess.

[Joel]

You know there will be a difference in power delivered to the when running in parallel.
Read up on ohm's law before killing your car

[92TSIpos]

All the guages will be at a different brightness. the first guage wired will be brighter than the last guage wired, since all the other guages are using the power.

[PSiedTSi]

thats only in series...parallel gets the same voltage for each load

[92TSIpos]

PSiedTSi wrote:
thats only in series...parallel gets the same voltage for each load

Look at his diagram, the guage on the right will get more power than the guage on the left.

[PSiedTSi]

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[Guest]

alls i can say is i had my gauges hooked up like that once...then one day my car started smoking from my volts gauge..and they all stoped working...all my wiring melted.