Re: Gauges? I need some

[Robert Houk - WorkGroup Server Firmware <Robert.Houk@East.Sun.COM>]

   Auto Avionics(800) 334-4913.

I've got one of their manifold pressure gauges -- 30inHg vacuum to
20PSI boost. It appears very accurate (when compared to my "ANSI Grade
B" pressure gauge, compared to a lab-certified pressure standard).

It's a very fast response unit (you can see the needle quiver with
the idle pulses).

The "styling" doesn't quite match GermanQuirkiness; I had to PAINT
the silly tinyweeny little light bulb to dim it down enough to not
completely outshine the rest of the instrument panel combined.
(yeah, yeah, dropping resister, blah, blah; painting had the ad-
vantage I could match GermanQuirkyRedishOrange so it didn't appear
completely out of place...)

You can see the boost gauge, but it's kinda small overall...
right of the steering wheel, left-most of the three gauges in the
UrQ abt instrument "pod":
  http://www.tiac.net/users/rdh/http/Urq/urq9.jpg
it's idling happily at 14inHg vacuum; "above" that is 10inHg, 0, 5PSI,
10PSI, 15PSI, and finally 20PSI fullscale. (They also have 30PSI
gauges.)

They have [had, some years back; I don't even know if I still have
their "catalog" buried somewheres] another really neato gauge -- it
was a 3" unit with the upper half (180 degree sweep) vacuum-to-boost,
and two smaller temp guages on the two lower quadrants, one for intake
air temp, the other exhaust gas temp. What a perfect turbo application
"guage" . . .

   >stinkin' gauges.
   >
   >Hello all,
   >
   >I am getting ready to do some high altitude R&D work specifically for high
   >boost applications on the RS2 equipped AAN motor. As part of this it was
   >highly recommended that I get my hands on a...
   >
   >100 inches of hg. manifold pressure gauge, from a airplane instrumentation
   >shop.
   >
   >I haven't the first clue where to find this so I am looking to my q-head
   >brethren for some direction. So, any suggestions as to where I can pick
   >something like that up (a matching EGT gauge would be nice too), especially
   >via the web, would be greatly appreciated.
   >
   >I am also interested in checking out the Auto Avionics line of gauges, can
   >anyone point me in the right direction?
   >
   >Thanks,
   >Frank--
   >