oil pressure guage buying help needed

[LegoHead]

Am i right in thinking that the sensors fit in a cylinder that goes in place of oil filter and oil filter attaches to that?

Just wondering what i need and sort of prices expected to pay.

 

[Fred@BTM]

sandwich plate is the tecnical name

 

[LegoHead]

okey dokey.

What sort of prices for a simple, but accurate oil pressure guage. Its wanted so i can make sure oil pressure is up before ragging the car, as I dont like relying on the coolant temp on the dash.

 

[ben_p]

u need the plate as fred said but there normally for temp.. there little point in fitting one tbh.. ur oil will prop run at 100 max on a full heat cycle. unless ur using some sort of tricked up cam's headwork etc.

i had one on my tu5 never looked at it.

im using a mocca 12row oil cooler now.. but i needed that due to the spec

 

[ben_p]

okey dokey.

What sort of prices for a simple, but accurate oil pressure guage. Its wanted so i can make sure oil pressure is up before ragging the car, as I dont like relying on the coolant temp on the dash.

as soon as the key is turned u will have presure?? via the oil pump (driven by crank)
the presure will change with heat. id just go for a temp sensor

 

[Fred@BTM]

i can price the bits up for you if you want dave??

you should consider doing oil temp and then have a low pressure warning light aswell????

 

[LegoHead]

as long as its not too expensive.lol.

I was thinking as I need to do an oil change soon, would be cool to fit one.

http://www.demon-tweeks.com/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=MSPORT&pcode=MOCSP1

is this the sort of thing i need?

 

[Fred@BTM]

yeah shouldn't be astronmical, i'll do it tomorrow

 

[ben_p]

low pressure will change to a (usable) level once there is 50% temp.. well its there from tick over so in theory u could just take it from there (thats not advised)

 

[LegoHead]

yeah shouldn't be astronmical, i'll do it tomorrow

thanks mate.

 

[ben_p]

as long as its not too expensive.lol.

I was thinking as I need to do an oil change soon, would be cool to fit one.

http://www.demon-tweeks.com/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=MSPORT&pcode=MOCSP1

is this the sort of thing i need?

thats off a oil cooler.. it has two feeds off the bottom... they would normally be fed into the water system.. cooling the oil..

 

[LegoHead]

ah yes i see now.:quiet:

Would make a nice water feature, just pissing out oil instead.

 

[Fred@BTM]

but yes, similar to that

 

[BenR]

you dont need an expensive sandwhich plate for a pressure sender, just Tee off the low pressure warning sender in the block.

 

[Fred@BTM]

good point! doh! lol

 

[LegoHead]

bump before i change my mind and sell the car.

 

[BenR]

bump?

Your answer is above.

 

[LegoHead]

just waiting for fred to get back to me about the guage price.

cheers for the help as well.

 

[Fred@BTM]

at brands hatch today and monday

 

[LegoHead]

at brands hatch today and monday

ok cheers mate, I'm not in any hurry to do this.

you still coming for a curry wednesday, the list of people is growing daily!