Thread: Most Accurate Boost Guage?

Never had a problem with my Autometer gauge. I have a mechanical for boost and it's worked great for me

Originally Posted by SD GTP

Never had a problem with my Autometer gauge. I have a mechanical for boost and it's worked great for me

same here.

I used to think that about Autometers (being accurate) until I started racing dirt circle track and 1st had my new autometer oil pressure gauge fail on the 1st night out and then the water temp quit 2 races later (needle actuall fell off the oil pressure). Funny thing is that I could look @ 75 different dirt race cars and outside of the use of Monster Tachs you’d be lucky to find 4 or 5 of those cars that use autometer gauges..they just can’t seem to take the vibration & abuse…again my 15 plus year old set of beaten up SW gauges are still dead on accurate, but they look ghetto and are mechinical, plus a boost gauge is not available). I also had 2 more fail in my offroad rig (again less than 1 year old) as well as other buddies having issues with them in their race cars, so I guess you could say I'm quite bitter against Autometer now.
I've read a lot about autometer mechanical boost gauges being terribly inaccurate lately and this is what sparked to want to ditch the last of my autometers.
The problem is that Autometer spends so much on advertising and contingency point funds that everyone assumes that they are the best, so it’s hard to find anyone using anything else.

i heard of these new gauges from this website . plxdevices.com . it looks pretty good . they got a bunch of good reviews at the sema show in vegas .

What about the Interceptor Aeroforce tech gauges ?


General Motors Interceptor Technical Information

Before I got booted off CGP someone had posted about a new company making gauges that were out of this world and not a whole lot more expensive than Autometer. There were a cross between Autometer and the plx gauges mentioned above.

If anyone knows of which gauges I am talking about please PM me the link to them. The reason I mention this is because I remember thinking, after reading about them and their sensors, they should be highly accurate gauges.

Anyway, if anyone has knows which ones Im talking about, send me the link please. I had planned on getting a couple and now I cant find the website anymore.

Before I got booted off CGP

I LOL every time I read this...so I have been lauging lots lately...

I'm going with the VDO Vision series.

And for what it's worth I found a very cheap place to buy guages online....
eGauges.com - VDO, Auto Meter, Defi, Isspro, Cyberdyne and Classic Instruments Gauges

When I had my GTP I had 3 Autometer Phantom gauges - boost, oil pressure, tranny temp. The boost gauge started reading funny after only a few months and eventually never sat at zero again when the car was off. The oil pressure sending unit crapped out on me.

If I ever need gauges on the Camaro, I'm going with Stewart-Warner hands down. A good friend of mine is an engineer for Stewart-Warner (well, their owners Maxima Technologies) right here in Lancaster PA, so I have gotten to see the inside of their gauges and they are FAR superior to AutoMeter. Not to mention a larger face display in the same size casing which makes them much easier to read.

Autometers seem to be fairly accurate, but they've broken on three of my friends cars (srt-fo, T-Bird SC, and a Scooby STI). When they should be standing straight up (no boost), they read about 5 on the Vac side.

Which ones scooz? I remember a discussion on cgp and there was a link to a site that had some awesome but not so expensive gauges. Seems like they were digital but Im not sure. Do you have any links? I dont think it was the PLX gauges. I remember thinking that for about 25% more than what I paid for autometer used gauges I could have brand new digital gauges. PLX doesnt fit that.

Defi - Gauges & Head up displays

that is their website. they are all electronic, and with their controller, they can actually log at specific points in the rpm range that you program. only issue with them is they are CRAZY expensive, at least in my eyes.