I I purchased 3 auto meter colbalt series gauges with a SOS triple pillar pod and I'm having them installed Wednesday . However my charger isn't going in for another week. Should I wait to put my gauges in after they supercharger is installed ?? I have a fuel pressure air/ fuel ratio and boast/ vacuum Thanks for the help !

 

IMO, those become important once you go forced induction, why not have it done at the same time?

 

The guys gave me a decent price on the charger install pulls dyno tune. But wanted. 700 to install the gauges and I thought that was high . My ford mechanic is doing it wed I think for 150 . Trying to save as much cash as possible the gauges plus pod were
Like 840!!

 

I'd just look at the motor and start to figure out how the heck to get er done myself but that's just me. Hope the install and tune goes well for you. Any reason you went s/c over turbo?

 

If he's doing it all for $150 I would say have him do it. The wide band A/F requires you to put a bung and 02 sensor in the exhaust pipe and that requires welding. My boost is pulled off an extra spot on the intake of my Magnacharger and goes to my MAP sensor and from there to my interceptor scan gauge , so it's not difficult to do. I get my fuel pressure off the scan gauge , so I didn't have to do anything for it. But I would assume you would put a sensor on the fuel rail and run the wires into the gauge , again not very difficult to do. I had my gauges in the pillar pod once and installing the gauges in them isn't very difficult either ...

 

Ya I went with the super charger after hours and hours of time spent trying to figure out whether to get a turbo or not . I am not doing forged internals because I do not have cash for that now. I love the sound of a blow off valve but after reading about turbos I was worried of turbo lag . I read about how turbos are more stress on the motor. I just wanted to be safe on my motor after spending all this money. the Helion system that I was looking at could produce 700 hp but I wouldn't. E able to use all of that without forged internals so I felt as if it would be turned down alot. I went with the roush tvs 2300 with gt 500 fuel injectors from videos I watched I was pretty impressed. Supercharger just fits me better . I might go to the drag strip twice a year but I'm going to be Doing more light to light races against foreign garbage and want to have a motor that ha instant power. There not as much piping with a charger and I read alot of guys who had the Helion system were scraping the ground in certain areas. It was tough for me to decide but I am going to be pushing. 500 rwhp with it so I should be happy. I just put a gt500 rear axle with 3.73 gears and a aluminum one piece drive shaft. Can't wait for the motor to be done its killing me waiting !!! I just dropped the car off to him I'll get it back tomorrow I'll put picks up tomorrow night thanks guys

 

A long story short it took forever to get theses in. The only one that is functional as of now is the wide ban. The supercharger is going into my car tomorrow so I didn't hook the other to fully up yet buy they look pretty good

 

Sweet looking gauges ...