Pyrometers
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Pyrometers. Any feed back on a quality pyrometer, ie brand names and approx. prices.Also would like some idea's on where on a GU to fit the 50mm round type gauge as space is a premium and not keen on boring holes into dash pods etc?
Reply By: wazza - Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:01
Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:01
Got
mine a couple of weeks ago at:
http://www.unlimitedspeed.com/
click on Autometer, then
2-1/16" and 2-5/8" ULTRA-LITE FULL SWEEP Electrical Gauges
ask for Scotty if you are dealing with them.
Cost me US$116 + $US8 freight + $US10 I sent to my mate in the US to forward it on to me. No-one I could find over there would freight to Australia.
So, for just over $200 I landed a full kit, guage and sensor. Price them at Autobarn, they are $200 for the guage and $300+ for the type K sensor.
Fitted it easily in an 80 series, but then again, I bored out a 50mm hole in a blank switch pod that exists between the radio and steering column, so it is pretty
well permanent now.
Installed easily and looks good. I had only recently had a 3" exhaust put on the car and the guys who fitted that dropped it out again and put the weld nut on for free, which I was happy with.
Pics of the pyro after installed at:
http://au.photos.yahoo.com/cruiserpics
You can do a search for autometer and 4344 on google. A few
places have the kit for about $US110.
Beware that if you get one, when you turn the ignition off, the needle points vertically down, not at zero as I would have expected. I contacted autometer and they said this is normal. The australian distributer is:
http://www.rocket.au.com/
I also looked at the Isspro guages, but decided the Autometer ones looked better.
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Follow Up By: Desert - Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:57
Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:57
Excellent advice Wazza, thank you very much, I will look into that.
Could you tell me some temp. readings of your exhaust now that you have it up and running, by any chance?
Desert.
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Follow Up By: Desert - Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:50
Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:50
Also Wazza, just checked the archive's and any reason you did not go for the Isspro pyrometer (R3607VWR), with white pointer??
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Follow Up By: Wazza - Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 14:18
Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 14:18
Yeah, I zoomed in on a
pic of an Isspro with a red pointer and some of the paint was flaking off. I took that as a quality issue. i liked the Autometer from the start, but did not go for them becasue of price. When I stumbled on the price of around US$110 I started looking harder. The Autometer looks heaps clearer to read. Although, I was amazed at how small a 50mm guage actually is when it turned up. They are about 50mm deep as
well. You get a green and a red light cover so can choose which one you want to put on before you install and I see there is a blue available which would be pretty funky, about $5 Aussie at Autobarn. I have only run it around town last week and are getting about 650°F max. I haven't been out of an 80kmh zone yet. They didn't have a celcius guage. Car will be sitting in the shed for 6 weeks now, I just went back to work on the ship in WA. Sorry can't help with temps.
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Follow Up By: Truckster - Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 18:07
Thursday, Feb 27, 2003 at 18:07
One thing about USA imported gauges .. they are in F instead of C...
Thats why I went with VDO, all the gauges are in C.
Im the same on how small a 50mm gague is. but you can fit 4 across a Dash pod!
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