i have just bought a boost gauge, could somebody please tell me where to plumb it in. pictures would be better if anybody out there has any. is it something u can do yourself? my car is a 95 mcrea edition, what pressure would it be running at.

 

if you look under the bonnet you will see your inlet manifold right in front of your intercooler on the right hand side of inlet manifold you should have a small pipe coming out vertically you need to cut the rubber pipe attatched to it and put a t piece in there then run your pipe for the boost gauge from the t piece into the car

 

On a 95 car....

If you look at the inlet manifold in the middle you will see three vacumn pipes connected to it, one 6mm and two 4mm..

T into the middle vacumn pipe.

So you know you are looking at the right pipes, the far left one goes to the dump valve.

Rob

 

as Rob said

 

Heres a clearer pic



[Edited by Krade - 12/29/2003 1:06:34 PM]

 

cheers for all the replys, pictures say it all. looks pretty simple , will give it a go tommorow. does anybody still know what pressure i should be getting? and what is a safe pressure to go to before fuel cut off.

 

Im prob not the best to awnswer but here goes,

I dont know what the standard boost levels are, but I would think around the 12 psi/.8 bar. If you have had or the car was remapped at any point then its gonna depend on how far they went with the remap.

Before I put in a boost control I was boosting to 17psi or 1.17 bar before the fuel cut kicked in, with a boost control it will still only boost to 17 psi before the fuel cut comes in. The Aftermarket boost controllers only give you the ablity to adjust the boost level upto what fuel cut is on the ecu, The only way I know of to overcome the fuel cut is to buy a fuel cut defender or remap the ecu.
Heres a chart for the conversions as some peps will quote bar, some Psi and some Kg/cm

Psi bar Kg/cm
10 0.69 0.70
11 0.76 0.77
12 0.83 0.85
13 0.90 0.92
14 0.97 0.99
15 1.03 1.06
16 1.10 1.13
17 1.17 1.20
18 1.24 1.27
19 1.31 1.34
20 1.38 1.41

 

Mine hits the fuel cut at around 1.2 bar roughly.