Inexpensive Gauge Sets

I'm in need of a set of reliable gauges for the RX7. Oil pressure, water temp and volts to get started. Any suggestions? Electric sending units preferred.

I've had pretty good luck with the stuff from Glowshift. I've got the digital oil temp, coolant temp, boost, and oil pressure in the Neon and the only problem I've had so far is that something got caught up and yanked the wires out of the oil temp sender unit. I'm also using a couple gauge pods from them as well as the radiator hose insert adapter and the oil filter sandwich adapter. All seems to work pretty well and it's fairly inexpensive.

http://www.jegs.com/i/Equus/390/7200/10002/-1?parentProductId=

Can you see them well in direct sunlight? (In reference to to glowshift ones). The cheap JEGS ones are mechanical for water and oil and I'd rather have electric sending units. I can buy Jegs branded ones for a shade over $100 for the set of three.

Swap meet. I got a full series (fuel, water, oil temp and pressure, boost, tachometer, fuel pressure, voltage) of VDO for less than $100

Yeah, I don't have much difficulty seeing them in direct light except when they're covered in dust. Definitely hook up the orange wire, though. When it gets +12V, it dims the display for "night mode". I've got three bright blue gauges right at the base of my windshield that currently make it a little bit hard to see at night because I haven't hooked up the dimmer function yet.

We ran a set of Harbor Freight gauges in the Lemons Civic. They worked like a charm and cost about $15, they are mechanical though.

I bought Sunpro individual gauges for the Samurai, they look like the almost the exact same thing, just much more expensive. I want to say the electric water gauge was about $25 and the mechanical oil gauge was about $20.

Last time I looked, egauges.com sold quality, brand-name gauges for very little money.

MrChaos wrote: http://www.jegs.com/i/Equus/390/7200/10002/-1?parentProductId=

there's at least a 50% chance that all the gauges will work, and about a 30% chance that they will be somewhat kinda sorta accurate.

Let me expand, these gauges will presumably sort of help me keep the 12a alive. Once the 12a dies, I'll put a different motor in, I'll keep the gauges. When the whole car dies, the gauges will live on in another LeMons/WRL car. I'm not really in the mood to spend $150 each for them, but I'm trying to put together a package of seat/belts/gauges/safety equipment that can go from one terrible car to another over the next decade or so.

mazdeuce wrote: Let me expand, these gauges will presumably sort of help me keep the 12a alive. Once the 12a dies, I'll put a different motor in, I'll keep the gauges. When the whole car dies, the gauges will live on in another LeMons/WRL car. I'm not really in the mood to spend $150 each for them, but I'm trying to put together a package of seat/belts/gauges/safety equipment that can go from one terrible car to another over the next decade or so.

Seriously... at the risk of repeating myself... Check out the VDO gauges at egauges.com . VDO gauges will last the rest of your natural life. I have OEM VDO gauges in my collection (culled from Volvo/VW/Porsche cars in the junkyard) that are 30+ years old and still work swell.

I looked up the VDO Vision line, just for S&G. The gauges are about $30 each, and the senders are $20-30. The three gauges and two senders you need will be under $150. VDO has senders for whatever weird threads any and all engines use, so you can put them in any car.

If you want to spend less, pick up used VDO gauges on eBay or at the junkyard and buy new senders for them.

In reply to EvanR:

Thanks. That's the kind of good info I was looking for.

I second vdo gauges. I had them in my forester xt and they worked great.

I've had no problems with SunPro gauges.