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Subject:Re: Update: permanent fuel pressure gauge - Source!
From:Jonathan Farrugia
Date:Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:13:47 -0500

Frank

i was looking at speedhuts website and it doesn't appear that they sell
senders is that correct?  are you sourcing your senders from autometer?
also i would be interested to hear your comments on gene bergs assertation
that most oil temp senders provide inaccurate data.

jonathan

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Frank Grunthaner wrote:

> I've watched this thread, including the debate (!) about the need or even the
> wisdom of monitoring fuel pressure. I'm on record for favoring both the near
> aircraft approach of monitoring everything important. The definition of
> important is left to the beholder, but I find good quantitative and qualitative data
> to be useful for both diagnostics and performance tuning. I use
> electroluminescent 270 degree sweep digital gauges from Speedhut.com because of their
> precision, custom gauge faces and the ability to set trigger warning lights that
> respond to max and min settings on each of the gauges. The combo of pleasantly
> moving gauges softly moving in the night together with 1200 watts of classical
> music can make the trek across west Texas bearable.
>
> That said, the original poster had correctly been searching for an electronic
> fuel pressure gauge with sender that could be mounted close to the source.
> For many a year, I have mounted a sender rated for gasoline at the test port of
> the fuel injection rail on my 1.8L I-4 Digifant conversion. Autometer makes
> the most complete line of such units. See Autometer.com.
>
> Frank Grunthaner
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