[s-cars] RE: boost gauge install question

[Philip Mische]

Or you can just run the line along the firewall inside the car and over to
the vac/pressure line for the ECU.  It's really easy.

I don't need no stinking notches or grommets.

Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Landaeta" <landaeta1 at comcast.net>
To: <Mthdealer at aol.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:34 PM
Subject: [s-cars] RE: boost gauge install question


> forwarded from PK's old post
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> Doug L
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> From: s-car-list-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Cody Payne
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:21 PM
> To: Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK); s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] RE: boost gauge plumbing
>
>
> I 2nd that heheh..that is pretty funny but no out of the realm of
something
> I would do ;-)
>
> As for my routing I actually dropped down the through the holes in the
relay
> box under the hood.  Really was a piece of cake.  Then channeled a small
> notch in the box to feed the vacuum line from the boost gauge to where I
> T'ed it off the boost line under the black plastic water run off panel.
>
> Works like a charm...just like Paul's suggestion..I was just getting tired
> of Popping that grommet out and having to find it and put her back in.
>
> cp
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krasusky Paul (WQQ2PXK) [mailto:pkrasusky at ups.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:08 PM
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> Phil boosted:
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> From: "Philip Mische" <pmische at comcast.net>
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> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:04:56 -0400
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> I just installed a vac/boost gauge in my 95.5 S6, tapping into green air
li=
> ne in the drivers footwell.  I must have missed the list-post that said
"do=
> n't do that".  I am happy to report that I get +5 psi whenever I use the
do=
> or locks, but other than that the gauge just sits there with nothing to
do.=
>   I think this gauge might be a lot more useful measuring intake manifold
v=
> acuum and pressure - where's the easiest place to tap in?  I know there's
o=
> ne for the ECU on the passenger side, anything closer?
>
> For others who might choose to take my route check the lock pressure
before=
>  moving on to use it as a boost gauge - you'll want to add  a
McMaster-Carr=
>  5449K192 5mm tube coupling to your supply list...
>
> Phil
>
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> Phil-
>
> 1st...  BWWAHahahaaa...
>
> 2nd...  options vary, I found it easiest to go right from where you
> incorrectly are now, past the pedal cluster, through the FW through the
> large rubber grommet there...  via a nice little AoA provided spare
> passageway.  This dumps you under the MC, and you can T in right there as
> the line runs east to west...  or is that vice versa?
>
> I'll show you @ NE //SFest ;-)...
>
> -P
> '95 //S6 mit 5 psi power locks, but I wouldn't know that
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