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Originally Posted by slayerdarkcross
How did you install that?  |
Well it wasnt easy thats for sure. The first time, the stock pillar underneath didnt want to stay in the pillar, so I ended up breaking the top clip. I could have mounted it that way, but just being held by the middle clip left a huge gap at the top where it meets the headliner.
So, off to the salvage yard I went, got a replacement sacrificial pillar, and cut it so the wires go through it, and down through the side of the dash, under the steering wheel and through the firewall. If you look closely inside the compartment under your dash, you can see two bolts with a hole in the middle of them on the firewall. Its a mounting plate that covers a hole to keep air from coming in. I took the plate off, drilled the center of it, and stuck a nylon tube in it. I then ran the wires through it and out the other side. I used the bolts on the plate as the ground. The oil pressure gauge is hooked to a sending unit which mounts to a plate I bought designed to read oil pressure by mounting between your oil filter and your block. Its called a "sandwhich adapter" glowshift makes them (
Performance Gauges & Gauge Pods GlowShift Gauges - Boost Wideband Air Fuel Gauges, or similar, google it).
The boost gauge i hooked up to the small vac line on top of the throttle body, by putting a TEE into two rubber lines, the one thats already on the throttle body, and then a second rubber line that I bought from NAPA. I then just ran the boost line right into the rubber connector they give you in the kit, and viola, boost. The light bulbs were connected to the orange wire in the pillar, this wire is the one that comes on when you turn your headlights on. The oil pressure gauge was connected to a white and red striped wire on the back of the fuse panel in the compartment by your steering wheel. The red and white striped wire comes on with the ignition key, so the gauge is alive when the other gauges come on.
And there you have it. The hardest thing was getting the pod to mount and stay up, because theres so much tension on the plastic.
~CYCLONE_06