Gauge Advice, What do you think? - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

pecivil · 12-13-2006, 06:45 AM

the boxster engine already has the oil pressure sensor, but it just runs one wire for the idiot light, what you do is swap in the sensor from a carrera, it is the same but it has 2 leads, one for the idiot light, and one for the pressure gauge. For the temp gauge, you get the proper sender and it goes on a port that is on the opposite cylinder head from the oil pressure port, it just does not have a sensor in it, just a plug. Take out the plug and screw in the tmep sensor sender. You run the wiring up from the engine bay through the firewall by bundling it with another existing wire bundle that already goes through.

I have the gauges and the sensors in, and the wire run, I just need to fab a faceplate and wire up the gauges, and there you have it. Oil temp, oil presure and a voltmeter if you want. I didnt want the voltmeter, but I definitely wanted oil temp so I am sure things are up to temp before I get on the motor. Pressure is also nice to see things are going as they should be.

ukchris · 12-13-2006, 06:51 AM

What gauges did you go with?

Perfectlap · 12-13-2006, 07:19 AM

you can do a five gauge Carrera cluster in a Boxster. Tool Pants I believe has a write about this on Renntech.org
A nice mod if you are a do it yourself type. But it depends on what year your Boxster is and only certain Carrera years work with certain Boxsters.
Once you locate the right parts it doesn't seem too complex.

pecivil · 12-13-2006, 08:34 AM

I went with VDO vision series. Nice gauges that look very stock.

pecivil · 12-13-2006, 08:36 AM

going the way I am doing will be mucho cheaper than installing a carrera cluster. I found several carrera clusters, but the cheapest one was $500!. So far I have spent about $125.

ukchris · 12-13-2006, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by pecivil

I went with VDO vision series. Nice gauges that look very stock.

Can you tell me what size they are, or maybe a model number or link? I have the oil pressure sender, I'm thinking of adding the gauge to go with it and a volt meter and would like to mount them in a 1 din piece.

Tool Pants · 12-13-2006, 09:20 AM

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12-13-2006, 09:25 AM

Thanks tool pants, I knew I had seen that pic before. So Id need a carrera oil pressure sensor (how much would that cost and how easy is it to change?), voltometer shouldnt be a problem, and Oil temp (How much for the sender and how hard would it be to put in?). If I can do the gauges for around 100 bucks I will.