Fitting a boost-o-meter to a P2...

[M-R-P]

Well, after buying Rotches boost gauge, I thought I'd do a little how-to for those with a P2. It's sort-of complicated but relatively quick.
First I got about 10ft of 2mm push-fit tubing (the swoosh gauge uses a 2mm pipe with an expensive looking tee) Ditched the original tube as it wasn't long enough to reach the inlet manifold.
Open the fusebox on the side of the dash and pull the sponge thing from the bulkhead. Now, with the door open, where there's a rubber sleeve between the door and the car, 4" above, in the car-side, there's a 1" rubber gromet. Remove it and ram a hole in it with a screwdriver and hang on to it. Now poke the tube in the hole in the dash and with a bit of wiggling, it will come out the hole where the gromet was. Now put the tube through the gromet and feed the pipe up, through the gap between the inner and outer wing.


From under the bonnet, where the bonnet mechanism connects to the wing, pull the pipe through, making sure the pipe doesn't get fouled by the mechanism.

Run the pipe down the front of the car...

And plumb the tee into the vac line from the inlet manifold to the recirc, adding the 2mm tube to it. Restrain the tube, away from heat sources, with cable ties.

Then go back to the fuse board and pull fuse No. 13 (12v front outlet), poke the live/light wires in the slot where the fuse goes and reinsert the fuse (this is a temporary measure, just to get it working - gonna find a proper source eventually ) then bolt the neutral wire to the dash with the 10mm dash bolt in the fuse board area.


Then mount the pod (however and wherever you mount it, tuck the pipe and wire into the gap between the A pillar trim and the dash top - the dash top is spongey there and accomodates the pipe and wire nicely.


So, how does it look? See for yourself...


Thanks again BigRotch, Blacky lives on in many good cars

[M-R-P]

OOPS! wrong section... Mods, can you move it to the how-to section pleeease

[MattM]

Looks good!
When I get round to doing mine, I'd like to do it like this - http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthr...or-Pod-Writeup

[stribo]

Looks good!
When I get round to doing mine, I'd like to do it like this - http://forums.swedespeed.com/showthr...or-Pod-Writeup

Now that looks nice, will have to try and find the parts to do it.

[MattM]

Now that looks nice, will have to try and find the parts to do it.

http://carbonfiberwerks.stimuluscreations.com/s60.htm

[M-R-P]

It looks nice but personally, I wouldn't want to take my eyes too far from the road to read it and mounting it there would put it right in your face, especially if you're of the vertically challenged variety (which I'm not) and sit close to the steering wheel. I may end - up putting it in the vent, when I get a spare vent to replace it with.

[Pinup_gal]

Moved for you

[bigrotch]

looks good dude now u got to convince the wife when boosting its got to hit 19psi every gear lol

[M-R-P]

Gotta have a tinker with it - she hit 10psi between 3k and 4.5k, which is bang-on stock pressure for these things - not bad after 187k miles
I think the actuator may get some attention this weekend...
Gotta change vac hoses too, and the oil, and the filter D'oh.

[Wobbly Dave]

Don't wind it on more than 1 turn.

[M-R-P]

Don't wind it on more than 1 turn.

Gonna change the vac hoses before I go tweaking anything. I'm well aware of the dangers and I'm aware that the car is capable of protecting itself, providing I don't do anything stupid
I'll go a turn back first and see if the ecu (which I'll be resetting first) compensates by delaying the bcs then start bringing it up gradually until I see something I like on the boost-0-meter.

[Wobbly Dave]

So when are you going to remap it?

[M-R-P]

So when are you going to remap it?

When I can find 300 quid plus the 130 quid to get to bromsgrove and back lol. My remap fund went back to nil a while back and so far, hasn't moved Times is 'ard lol.

[stribo]

Whereabouts on the inlet manifold do you connect the pipe? Can you not tee into the pipe that goes from the turbo to the TCS?

[M-R-P]

No mate, you need the one that goes from the inlet manifold to the recirc valve.

Looks like a tidy job there Mitch. The cigerette lighter is a good one to splice into for the power supply. Save the risk of annoying the radio.

[JUDGENINJA]

That's a very odd route for the piping... Is there no rubber grommet behind the glovebox or behind the fuse box?

It might be an 850/P1 thing..

[M-R-P]

That's a very odd route for the piping... Is there no rubber grommet behind the glovebox or behind the fuse box?

It might be an 850/P1 thing..

There's a few but they're an absolute pig to get at from inside.

[d2k]

morning all........

need some urgent help with my wiring..... my car is currently in bits, lol

im gonna tap into the lighter as suggested but there's no chassis bolts anywhere in the center console for a ground..

the 2 cables coming off the lighter (purple / black), im guessing purple is live & black is ground / negative...???

can i not just run the gauge pos & neg straight into both of the lighter connections...???


thanks...

[M-R-P]

yes mate, you can

[d2k]

IT WORKS!!!!!

now i just need a crash course in what it 'should' be doing..

when i start the car it reads 20-22psi vacuum..

when i pull off 2krpm it moves to 15psi vacuum..

when i boot it, it reaches 12-13psi boost (which is pretty good i thought)

though it never sits at 0psi..???

when cruising at 60mph 5th 2.5krpm ... the gauge is reading 10psi in vacuum..???, only when the revs go past 4k does it pass the 0 & move into boost..???

is this right..???