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racepar1 · 06-12-2013, 04:42 PM

Why is it necessary to have that many guages and a fancy dash? You should be able to get all the temp and pressure readings from the dash. All you should need is a boost guage and maybe an AFR guage. To me that's WAAAAAYYYYYYY overkill and looks super ricer. Is this supposed to be a track car or a show car? I'm guessing show since everything's so shiny...

EDIT: On a REAL track/race car you want your guages to be as simple as possible. You don't want to have to look in multiple places to monitor the engine. It should be done at a glance as you don't have time to be looking closely at guages. Racecars usually use idiot lights wherever possible to simplify it all...

06-12-2013, 04:42 PM	#14
racepar1 Post Whore! Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Simi Valley, CA Age: 42 Posts: 9,006 Trader Rating: (106)	Why is it necessary to have that many guages and a fancy dash? You should be able to get all the temp and pressure readings from the dash. All you should need is a boost guage and maybe an AFR guage. To me that's WAAAAAYYYYYYY overkill and looks super ricer. Is this supposed to be a track car or a show car? I'm guessing show since everything's so shiny... EDIT: On a REAL track/race car you want your guages to be as simple as possible. You don't want to have to look in multiple places to monitor the engine. It should be done at a glance as you don't have time to be looking closely at guages. Racecars usually use idiot lights wherever possible to simplify it all...