Long over due and costing me a ton of stupid tax. What do yall suggest,,,electric or mechanical. Brand etc.

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

i ordered the 4 in 1 guage from summit, it comes with everything you need except wireing, its all electric and i like pretty good its around $150 if i remeber rite. tack, oil, water temp, and volt meter all combigned into 1 5inch guage

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I suggest electric gauges. Too much chance of messing up a oil line from the motor to the front, causing another round of taxes. In some forms of racing your not allowed to run anything that pipes fluid into the drivers compartment.

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good thinking

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

thanks hillaholic, i was looking for the picture

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Electric. The mechanical units are ok if you dont have them to far from the motor however being our motors are in the back it's not feasibal withourt and extension. I too will be adding an electric water temp gauge over the winter, stupid tax sucks. Ok A/C guys have at at!

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my opinion (and experiance) is to use autometer, vdo, stewart warner, or maybe sunpro and foget equus, autogage, and "store" brands, also stay away from knock offs and or look-a-likes with items such as gauges, meters, testing equipment and such

and as far as electric vs. mechanical

i would use mechanical if possible on the oil pressure ( just make sure and use copper tubing to hook it up with and throw away the plastc tubing that come with most gauges these days and run the tubing just like you would a wire to keep it out of harms way ), more accurate in my opinion

temps are fine with electric, im not sure if all are, but i know some "mechanical" temp gauges are really "electrical" anyways due to fact they operate off of a thermocouple which is basicaly an electrical process

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before i went wc, i ran a mechanical oil guage on my stroker, with copper tubeing. my guage ofcourse mounted in the dash, it read 15pounds diff at dash than it did plumbed directly into my engine port

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thats strange, if 60 psi went in one end of the tubeing 60 psi should come the other end

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i agree thats why i like electric

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I like electric gauges. Easy,hassle free and accurate if you buy QUALITY gauges. Auto meter makes the best stuff imo.

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electric. mechanical ran from any kind of distance from the motor is by no means more accurate. think, you have said distance of tubing to create error. whereas electric gets the reading right at that point and is then transmitted to the gauge, not really much room for error if you have quality gauges...

no gauges at all because there a distraction but for u guys id go electric.

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electric auto meter ez to run

i dont understand what the length of tubing ( especially if its copper ) has to do with it, it looks to me like if 60 psi goes in one end then 60 psi should come out the other end as long as there are no kinks or leaks?

and as far as the electric goes, it looks to me like there would be just as many, if not more room for errors, due to factors such as the gauge, # of strands, length of run, resistance or ohms ( which is how an electrical oil pressure works if i'm not nistaken ), material ( copper or aluminum ), etc... of the wire?

these are just my thoughts and i could be all wrong i dunno

maybe we have an electrician and a hydraulic expert on here that could explain the pros and cons of each

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You can think of a mechanical oil pressure gauge like this..

You have a 100ft garden hose, think of how much more pressure comes out of the spicket than out of the end of an opened hose

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I know for a facy Ron lost a motor due to a electric oil guage. It shorted out inside the sending unit and caused it to read good pressure all the time. A mechanical gauge either works or it dont.

Anything terribly wrong with digital gauges?

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

nothing in my opinion, other than they are electric and as kevin said, may short out

and as far as the water hose example mentioned above, i did a test today, and the end result was about a 3 psi difference between the faucet and the end of a 50 ft rubber garden hose ( there is a difference between an "open" flow and a "dead head" pressure )

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dumby light LOL cause are your not gona let out cause the pressure dropped off!! no me neither!!!!!! OHHH!!!! NO WATER SPILLING HERE!!!!

friction loss is probably minimal

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If your clutch ain't slippin,, you probably got it adjusted right!!!!!

That's why we should run a oil pressure light when the pressure drops below the factory setting of the stock pressure switch. I have ran electrical oil gauges forever and it works great as long as you don't see the light come on when running, once it does and the gauge show good pressure, then you got a bad sending unit

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yeah i forgot that, the best i remember that is called the "c factor", but it seems that would only come into play during "flow" and not "pressure", but i could be wrong

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